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will I remember my day at the 1939 World's Fair. As a young school
teacher I was on my way to Europe to get a glimpse of the past.
At the Fair I had a glimpse of the future; a futurama of miniature
automobiles zooming around clover leaf highways, over and under
bridges. It was a preview of I95, I91 and route 34 merging.
-Elizabeth
Mellin
My
main memory is of the Futurama. We sat in what I remember as great,
oversized, upholstered armchairs that moved slowly past highways
such as we drive on all the time in '99-divided highways, cloverleaves,
and layers of highway, one above the other, such as a place on
Route 8 today with four layers of highway. To a newly licensed
driver it was mind-boggling
-Anna
Deming
One of the things I remember from the New york
Fair was the extensive displays put on by the railroads. One featur
was the enormouse experimental 6-4-4-6 steam locomotive shown
by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was intended to haul long passenger
trains at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour. It was mounted
on rollers and was running in place on it's own steam. Some of
the contemporary books asserted it was running at the equivalent
of sixty miles per hour, but I remember the wheels turning rather
slowly so that I could easily follow the motion of the levers
composing the valve gear.
-Jack Cunningham
share your memories of the fair by emailing them
to me at am@eliwhitney.org
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