The city of tomorrow, circa 2024, in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

[IcyPeas]

That looks like a lane for tractor trailers. That would've been a good idea.

The city of tomorrow, circa 2024, in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. They told us it was gonna be great

but all it was was companies and governments selling products and pushing positive spin

[empedocles]

5. 'Traffic jams would be eliminated by computers'

[Thunderbeast]

2. I think I saw this at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962

Also saw an IBM computer and a Touch Tone phone.

9 years old!

[PoliticAverse]

3. I remember riding through that exhibit but what I most remember about the world's fair was...

the extremely long lines to get into each of the exhibits.

1964 GM Futurama II ride:

[IcyPeas]

4. There it is at 6: minute mark in the video... the Continental Highway

[pressbox69]

6. The City of Tomorrow (today)

Is now roasting due to climate change made possible by large Corporations. Thank you GM. I made 4 or 5 trips to the fair. For some reason the lines at GM were long but always manageable. I went GM every time. Great fun for a 10 year old. More fun was the Sea Hunt exhibit with the recorded voice of Lloyd Bridges, just like the TV series. It was a giant fish tank with with all sorts of exotic deep sea fish. While a Bridges double investigated. Suddenly there was a loud crash and a UFO appeared in the tank. A portal opened and out popped a Frog Man from outer space. The Bridges double battled with this frog faced enemy of the people for a few minutes until the human pulled the pants off the frog man to show he was wearing yellow underwear with pink hearts on it. The frog man was so embarrassed that he took off right quick. The other thing I remember was my first microwave dinner, spaghetti and meatballs.

[hunter]

7. What a horror show...

[gratuitous]

8. How off can that futurama exhibit be?

When there nothing like . . . THIS: