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I got married at Terrace on the Park originally Top of the Park.

Great stuff. If the Disney movie TOMORROWLAND had been a hit, I'm sure there would have been a revival, restoration, and a new theme park by now. But the movie flopped so... no.

I was there with my parents, sister and grandmother. Thank you 🙏 Mom and Dad ❤You !!

Interesting. Next time could you control your sound level? That World's Fair song blasted my ears and speakers. From there, the level went up and down randomly. Lots of work for the viewer. to hear, yet spare our ears.

The world's Fair 1960s was the greatest place to go were you could not see everything each time you go there and you they have a other one some day that is even better

it will never be the same again. our country is gone!

My parents went to the 39 world's fair.Theybsaid it was very magical😊

I was five years old in 1964, and remember going to the Fair... As an adult I collected a variety of artifacts, one subject being this fair... When I discovered the Queens Museum (of Art)'s plans for renovation of the old skating rink, I called the curator and offered my entire NYWF collection for acquisition...It joins others in their Visible Storage exhibit...

We have to keep in mind that the world's fair structures were meant to be only temporary.

Here comes the brand new flava in ya ear

I went there several times at the age of ten. People who experienced the 1939 fair said that this one was pale in comparison. That meant nothing to me. This was my fair and I loved it. Watching this now makes me sad and nostalgic.

Went there both years. Still smell the beer garden walking by. Great time...

Dollywood got part of the log flume ride.

Where’s the site of it’s a small world?

when they had the 50th anniversary i went there. It was amazing. I cried. I loved it

This was the gleaming, amazing World of the Future when I saw it as a 5 year old in 1965.

It’s been so many many years. Robert Moses finally got his park in Flushing.

Had my very first soft pretzel at the Fair and thought I was in heaven! Yummmmmm.

The New York state pavilion is just a metaphor of the sad shape that New York state is in.

Have never found the plaque to cops killed by a bomb. Oughta be bigger I think!!!!!!!!!

They should left the World's Fair intact. That was our New York version of Disneyworld.

When white people were the majority of this country things are beautiful clean and safe

so did the, fairs building and monuments,decay on their own,or did Young teenagers, vandalized the place? 😔😠. remember pictures of the Billy Graham/ pavilion from a record my parents got in, wisconsin in '64'! is that still around?

Just where is Any people with any kind of a tan oh yeah this secret society that is the Only thing racist here destroyed all b4 they put on their stupid pagan fair

So a secret society member showing us what their hidden society has done but this time it shall be different.

It’s actually 57 seconds…

Fact is unless it's built of weather proof materials like granite or a silica based material, glass, terra cotta, all is going to look crappy in a few years after a restoration. Only expensive upkeep will keep it nice. Metals corrode, cementious materials slowly dissolve. The rain and ice are brutal. That's one of the downsides to building modern futuristic architecture.(as the 20th century imagined it) It is only impressive when clean, new out of the box. Now if the World's Fair was built to remind us of centuries old temples, castles and stadia, the ruins would be attractive and romantic. Nashville reconstructed the Parthenon from its Centennial fair. I dare say it will be impressive when the concrete starts to crumble.

well at least it was modern enough that the thing was not immediately torn down like all the old world's fairs/expositions. like SF, chicago etc. spend millions to tear it down immediately with the stupid excuse that the buildings were only temporary because they were made from wood. i'm thinking almost all old buildings and new buildings are made out of wood and last for a hundred years or more.

All while these cities get bigger and bigger budgets each year and some how can’t maintain anything. But they have money to vote on their own raises each year or every other. However often they legally get to do it. The new ones vote for the salary with the promise they get to do it when they get there. Politics are so evil.

Look in the late 1800s early 1900s and compared it to 1965. What a tragedy.

We don't deserve nice thing, we keep electing crooked leaders.

Commenters BROSEF and TRUTHFUL hit the comments they made as perfect as they can*however MY take on the deteriorsation of what was once beautiful is:if it was MY property or any other nyc citizen the city would of been FINING YOU $$$$$$ all year long if you did not CLEAN IT UP! but the city can just let it ROT ROT ROT all year long! I went to see the BIG GLOBE in SEPTEMBER 1970 on a very cool night and was lucky to finally WALK OUT of the filthy place without breaking a leg over all the bottles,cans,broken glass and whatever.Don,t mean to be over negative about it but that,s just what I experienced.I was there in 1964 and the G.M. PAVILLION was fantastic as well as the WHOLE SET UP-thanks to all other commenters for your post and lets hope the place is getting better and better today-NOVEMBER 13,2021******

The billionaires could spend the money to fix it but they're too greedy

Across the world if you compare the populations and what is being suggested has been built is not possible

I remember that so well I was there I was approximately 12 years old when my godmother a schoolteacher just picture World's Fair that was the second one I was there in 1962 in Seattle also it's awesome to really really do need to do that again it's so many kids that need to know what was and what is

I remember watching a man wearing some kind "rocket-backpack" flying in the sky. Anyone else remember that?

nice fantasy video. now...take a look at the countries and cities of where the current residents of nyc came from. that is your future. thats the nyc standard and that is the reality. you are looking back at nyc in the 1960s. different people...different values and standards. enjoy your the new city u are creating.

I visited this location about 10 years ago and was slightly depressed by the deterioration. Went to the Fair twice when & was 11 & 12 years old. I remember that the floor of the NYS Pavilion had a giant roadmap of NY State on it. It now looks like something from "Planet of the Apes"....some abandoned city-scape. Most of the other buildings were torn down or some were moved to Disneyland.

The litter and trash is sad. Buildings should be maintained or taken down.

I remember the last day. People were actually pulling out trees from their favorite pavilions! To be honest, I never thought that the New York State pavilion was all that great. There were other pavilions which were much nicer.

Sums up America; in passive, rapid decline?! China positioning to sweep them aside and take over. Poor leadership, Trump to Biden - one extreme to another, no progress other than being bludgeoned into the national stupor of no vision, no dreams anymore?!

The pavilions of the Seattle World's Fair of 1962, two years before the NY 1964 World's Fair, are still in use & are in good shape! So, why did New York decide to let their's fall to disrepair? When I went to the NY Fair in 1965, it was the closest thing to going to Disneyland in Calif., since Disney World was not built for another seven years! But NYC also had "Freedom Land", which, unfortunately, could not compete and ultimately went out of business because of it!

Sad

My Mom and Dad took us to the NY World's Fair in 1964 and 1965. We lived in NJ. I was 5 and 6 and yet I remember so much detail. It was so wonderful. I've been back many times to the site when going to Met Games and the US Open. I walk around the Unisphere and I feel so much sadness. I wish they could do something to preserve what's still there. It's falling apart.

Family went in 64', I choose to remember it as it was back then. Would be nice to kinda of 'restore' what is still remaining there instead of letting it just go to ugliness.

Iron man and men in black had scenes from this historical place. It would be beneficial in many ways to restore it. To the people that have the means to restore it its not that important.

Human beings are so wasteful. Spare no expense, use it up, throw it away and forget about it, let someone else deal with it. Very sad.... Arrange for volunteers to chip in, help the city refurbish some of the ruins, a little bit at a time. At least the skateboarders are making some use out of it.

I was a kid in '64-'65 and snuck into the Fair many times, across the tracks avoiding the third rail, over an overpass and then a fence and you're in. I loved it. The problem with Flushing Meadow park is that it was not designed as a park, after the fair they just tore down the pavilions and buildings and kept the grounds as they were so it kind of has the feel of an archeological ruin. The grounds of what had once been a great civilization...barren, the street grid of a once great city. It's no Central Park or Prospect Park. It needs a complete redesign and overhaul.

Went to the Fair when I was 7. Lived nearby. After it closed, and when I drove by it in the ensuing decades, the park totally disgusted me.

NYC is a Democrat shithole especially back then, it's no wonder nothing was preserved, I'll bet they'd scrap the unisphere just for the small amount th4yd get for the stainless steel, the only thing is that it would years of red tape, involve all the mod run unions and cost 10 billion to remove, plus it would be dragged out for years while contracts were constantly renegotiated. Watch men in black two if you want to see what it used to look at night during the fair, the fountains and lights were great, there are a couple of other buildings that survived as well.