Fair Warning
visitors to the General Motors Highways and Horizons at the 1939 New York‘s World’s Fair will view the world of tomorrow from 550 comfortable moving sound chairs, moved on a Westinghouse conveyor system traveling at approximately 102 feet per minute, while touring a vast scale model of the American countryside covering more than 35,000 square feet and extending of a third of a mile on several levels of the building.  The ‘Futurama’ is the largest scale model ever constructed and includes more than 500,000 buildings and houses, over a million trees and 50,000 motor vehicles, of which thousands will be in motion
The Fair Up There
aerial view of the 1939-1940 World’s Fair in New York
The Road of Yesterday’s Tomorrow
The Road of Tomorrow is envisioned at the Ford exposition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York