The New York World's Fair, 1939-40 - Treasures of The New York Public Library

Can you show on a city map where the fair was located? Thanks.

That would have been awesome to attend.

The Westinghouse Time Capsule was put together as one of the major exhibits of both the 1939 & 1964,1965 New York World's Fair. Westinghouse commissioned the publication of “The Book of Record of the Time Capsule”. Thousands of copies of the book have been distributed throughout the world, in hopes of keeping the memory of the capsule alive until 6939 AD. The capsule is buried fifty feet down at exactly 40° 44' 34".089 North Latitude, 73° 50' 43".842 West Longitude.

My mother (Hazel E. Tulai) appeared on television at the Worlds Fair, back then she was a part-time model and dancer, age twenty. This appearance on television was performed in the first weeks of the earliest pioneer commercial/experimental television transmissions ever made. It was an RCA production. The broadcasts were between studios in Newark, NJ and the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City, NY, it consisted of her and seven other dancers in ethnic Hungarian costumes. Two of the other dancers were her brother Joey Tulai and a sister Margie Tulai. They performed old county Hungarian dance routines. This troupe played for many charity event's during this period. It is said my father watched as my mother and her brothers danced, he was standing on a street sidewalk in New York City, he and others peered through a plate glass window into a store with a television set displayed to the public. The screen on this "TV" set was four inches wide. When asked if he see her face, his reply was no... however, he recognized her legs! I'd give anything to see a record on this.

I love the New. Ok