New York's 1939-1940 World's Fair (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738535852)

The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair promised a new age of global communication, nationwide superhighways, and suburban living-and it delivered. Crafted by designers such as Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, and Raymond Loewy, the twelve-hundred-acre fair in Flushing Meadows sold visitors a streamlined world of consumer goods-teardrop cars and smoking robots, electric dishwashers and nylon stockings-manufactured by companies such as Westinghouse, General Motors, and AT&T. In New York's 1939-1940 World's Fair, insightful narrative accompanies dazzling postcards, advertisements, and illustrations of Democracity, Futurama, the Lagoon of Nations, and the famed Trylon and Perisphere, recalling the promise and optimism of a fair that enchanted forty-five million visitors.

Author: Andrew F. Wood
ISBN-10: 0738535850
ISBN-13: 9780738535852
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2004
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.46w x 0.32d