The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was a major travel attraction in the mid-1960s. The fair's optimistic theme was "Peace Through Understanding" with a further dedication to Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe." There were many international pavilions to visit, though the majority of exhibitors were US industrial corporations. The industrial exhibits all showed what consumer wonders were just around the corner. Accordingly, Westinghouse sponsored a Time Capsule II in parallel with its Time Capsule from 1939-1940. We took the New York Subway out to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds in Queens. The subway ride was every bit as exciting as the fair! My mother had been to the previous New York World's Fair in 1940. The symbolic Unisphere, built by US Steel, stood in the same fountain as the prior fair's Trilon
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