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1964 New York World's Fair
[[Image:Max mordecai.jpg|right|thumbnail|300px|View of the New York World's Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. The Fair's symbol, [[Unisphere]], is the central image.]] 

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In the mid-1930s, Moses oversaw the conversion of a vast Queens garbage dump into the glittering fairgrounds that hosted the 1939/1940 World's Fair. Called Flushing Meadows Park, it was Moses' grandest park scheme. He envisioned this vast park, comprising some 
{{convert|1300|acre|sqkm|0}}<span style="white-space:nowrap">1,300&nbsp;acres&nbsp;(5&nbsp;km²)</span> of land and located in the center of the city, as a major recreational playground for New Yorkers. When the 1939/1940 World's Fair ended in financial failure, Moses did not have the available funds to complete work on his project. He saw the 1964/1965 Fair as a means to finish what the earlier Fair had begun.

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Elsewhere emerging African nations displayed their wares in the [[Africa]] Pavilion. Controversy broke out when the Jordanian pavilion displayed a mural emphasizing the plight of the [[Palestinian]] people. The Jordanians also donated an ancient column which remains at their site.  The city of [[Berlin]], a [[Cold War]] hotspot, hosted a popular display.

==American industry takes the spotlight==
[[Image:NYWF
_  Bag_  1964.JPG|thumb|left|275px|Souvenir bag art]]
At the 1939/1940 World's Fair, industrial exhibitors played a major role by hosting huge, elaborate exhibits. Many of them returned to the 1964/1965 Fair with even more elaborate versions of the shows they had presented twenty-five years earlier. The most notable of these was General Motors Corporation whose Futurama,a show in which visitors seated in moving armchairs glided past detailed scenery showing what life might be like in the "near-future,"(contracted; show full)

The Fair was eventually able to limp through the second season without having to declare bankruptcy because of emergency money provided by the city, an increase in ticket prices and a surge in attendance as the Fair drew to a close. However, the financial crisis further ruined the image of the Fair and of its owner.

== Epilogue ==
[[Image:New York Worlds Fairgrounds.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Aerial view of the remaining structures in Flushing Meadows in 2004]]
[[Image:WorldFairTower1.jpg
  |thumb|120px|right|The observatory towers.]]
Like its predecessor, the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair lost money. It was unable to repay its financial backers their investment and it became embroiled in legal disputes with its creditors until 1970, when the books were finally closed and the New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation was dissolved. Most of the pavilions constructed for the Fair were demolished within six months following the Fair's close. While only a handful of pavilions su(contracted; show full)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/out_of_this_world Internet Archive: Out Of This World] Film about a woman going to the [[General Motors]] Pavilion to see the Kitchen of Tomorrow.

[[Category:1964|New York World's Fair]]
[[Category:New York City World's Fairs]]
[[Category:Queens, New York City]]
[[Category:Robert Moses projects]]

[[fr:Foire internationale de New York 1964-1965]]