Here’s a video of the second GM Futurama from 1965/65 World’s Fair in Flushing, New York. There’s some truly frightening visions of the future here, none more so than a rainforest-steamrolling machine that instantly paves roads with laser beams. This “journey into the future” is one we luckily never made.
Those feathered hats! One of my cousins was at that fair and had one of those hats! As for the ‘tour’…why do these things always look so sterile? The future is always shown as clean and shiny.
this boy in the red sweater is the age of my little brother when we and our younger sister rode this very chain of chairs. Thanks for reviving a long-dusty memory for me. So glad that we never acquired feathered hat souvenirs.