67 times around - and once there was a world's fair

That was enjoyable...just saved another 7.4 square feet of prairie land.

I was a little girl in 1967.
A little Canadian girl.

The world's fair was in Montreal in 1967.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/expo/053302_e.html

Expo 67 - Man and His World.

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I went off to university about a decade later - studying Environmental Sciences, in a program called Man in the Environment for the first few non p.c. years :wink:

One of my particular areas of interest during those years was the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

link to The World of World's Fairs

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Where were you in 1967?
What were you wearing?
What were you thinking?

Had you heard of THE ENVIRONMENT in 1967?

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my 1967 - at the world's fair and back home in Kingston

Good to see you here, Sturgis!

You may not know this - but the WildClickers like to dance.

Since I found that skating pic, I think we'll try ice-dancing this time round.

Lace up your skates and c'mon back. We'll crack the chain!

Present and accounted for.

Anon

Wonderful new thread, ehBeth!! Great photos!

Well I wasn't at the 1915 World Fair - but my relatives were, and I still have a lovely momento my Grandmother saved - an embossed towel with the Fairs Logo, and old newspaper accounts of the day.



A wonder - just nine years after the devastating 1906 earthquake, San Francisco staged the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal in August, 1914 and showing more than 18 million visitors from around the world that it remained "the city that knew how." Understandably, the universal reaction of fair-goers was "a sense of wonder."
The building of the canal itself was, of course, an incredible feat: Over 50 years in the making, it was dubbed "The 13th Labor of Hercules." And so was the creation of the Exposition, beginning with the placement of 300,000 cubic yards of fill to create land for the site from what had formerly been San Francisco Bay and is now San Francisco's Marina district. The times were heady, and rapid strides were being made in engineering and manufacturing. Consider just a few notable aspects:

The fair featured a reproduction of the Panama Canal that covered five acres. Visitors rode around the model on a moving platform, listening to information over a telephone receiver.

The first trans-continental telephone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell to the fairgrounds before the fair opened, and a cross-country call was made every day the fair was open.

The ukelele (originally a Portugese instrument, but adopted by the Hawaiians) was first played in the United States at the 1915 fair, creating a ukelele craze in the 1920s.

An actual Ford assembly line was set up in the Palace of Transportation and turned out one car every 10 minutes for three hours every afternoon, except Sunday. 4,400 cars were produced during the Exposition.


The entire area was illuminated by indirect lighting by General Electric. The "Scintillator," a battery of searchlights on a barge in the Bay, beamed 48 lights in seven colors across San Francisco's fog banks. If the fog wasn't in -- no problem: A steam locomotive was available to generate artificial fog.

Personalities abounded: Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were honored at a luncheon; Edison had perfected a storage battery that was exhibited at the fair. A pre-teen Ansel Adams was a frequent visitor.

The Liberty Bell made a cross-country pilgrimage from Philadelphia to be displayed at the fair. Notables, such as Thomas Edison, were often photographed with the bell.

The Machinery Palace was the largest wooden and steel building in the world at the time; the entire personnel of the U.S. Army and Navy could have fit inside. The first-ever indoor flight occurred when Lincoln Beachey flew through the building before it was completed.
In 1915 the fair was a popular destination for a San Francisco summer outing by bicycle, cable car, auto or other form of transportation.

I just realized that if I go through all the accounts I've set up, I can click 5-6 times. I'll have to remember to get thm all each time

Anon

1967 I was a young teenager and living I think here in Rutland, started the school year ('66) in New York and then came up here and then went back down there but came back here in the summer after school was done and stayed on with some relatives until March of '68 at which point I went to Hellville (the folks had moved to a blob of land called Staten Island...UGH!) ...it was a strange year or two back then.

I was wearing proper attire for a young man...I think I had done away with the necktie though except for church and formal occasions and of course school pictures, my hair was getting longer and I had these really fantastic low cut boots with a nifty brass buckle on each of 'em wore those shoes into the ground, even got them re-soled twice. I wanted a leather jacket like my Uncle had but his wife said it was wrong and sent me out to get a part time job, I worked for cousin Jerome for a while until he fired me for doing something I shouldn't have with another employee (male) ...and I still didn't know I was gay...geez louise, what was I waiting for a brick to hit me on the head?.

I was thinking "Someday I'll marry Elizabeth (that was her name), and we will have 4 or 5 kids..." my reason for choosing her, was my crush on her dad....still had no idea I was gay at that time. I was also hoping the VietNam thing would end since the idea of getting drafted didn't seem to nice, even though the nice Army officer who came by our place tried to convince me it wasn't all that bad. I was also getting tanked on whatever booze I could find on the weekends and thinking about the bleak future.

I had indeed hear of the environment but had no idea what it was about.

As to the World's Fair I loved the '64 and '65 one in New York, spent hours and hours there, got teary eyed when they finally closed down.

ehBeth, You aren't going to believe this - - - I have not only THE originally published 1893 edition of the Chicago World's Fair book - but, I have two of the pennies that they 'squeezed' in a press to commemorate the event. Pennies came out sort of oval. I'll try to find them and post a pic.





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These pics did not come out well. I will get the pennies better.

<Sturgis was going to marry me? he had a crush on hamburger? >

I can see those boots, Sturgis.

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danon, it's a small small world. I spent a lot of 1978 in a library in northern Ontario poring over a copy of that exact book. The Columbian Exposition. Marvellous.

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click on, anon! <grin>

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Good to see you, stradee. Have you got ice skates or hockey skates on? I could never learn how to stop properly without the cheater picks found on girls ice skates.

I'd like to get a new pair of skates.

Mebbe someone's got 'em on sale.

In 1967 I had just finished US Army Basic Training in Louisiana and began Advanced Infantry Training at Ft Ord, CA. My first real taste of travel and I loved it. From there I reported to Infantry Officer Candidate School at Ft Benning, GA. The next six months were spent there - graduating as a butter bar Second Lieutenant. My first assignment was at an army base - Hunter Army Airfield - located adjacent Savannah, GA. WOW!! I sure fell in love with all the travel. Only a couple of months later I started the Army Fixed Wing Flight School in Ft Stewart, GA.
So, that's what I did during the year 1967. I pretty much wore olive drab clothing and thought about SE Asia. But, that was the next year.

Interestingly enough, in my flight school class were many foreign students. On one day while riding from the assembly area to the training site ((That's from the parking lot to the planes for you all.)) one of the American students was talking to the the two students from Indonesia. The Indonesian students had been recycled several times and the American student ((we were all officers by the way)) was wondering why. The simple answer from one of the Indonesian students surprised me - he said, (and I quote.) "If we fail, we will be killed when we return to Indonesia."
As far as I know the Indonesian students finally all passed - they kept recycling them until they did. And, the really sad part of this tale (besides it all being true) is that these particular students came from the upper class in their country. They were each wealthy people.

Hi ehBeth, here are a few of the newest skates for woman - and they're reasonably priced! Hurray!

I've not had much experience ice skating - just at Guardelli Square in San Francisco during the winter though - when I worked for the City organizing field trips for the kids. Mostly the kids ice skated - i just floated calmly praying i wouldn't fall and hurt something. Fared much better snow or water skiing.

What was I doing in 1967? Can't remember!!! <checking archives>

Probably working, daughter was in nursery shcool, hubby working - saving for new home, daughter six years old. We adopted Brandy, our first puppy that year, and a friend gave my daughter an adorable canary named "Pepe" - the beginning of our family herd which eventually included more dogs and horses. During the early part of the 60's though, and closer to the 70's - there were anti-war rallies, and many social causes we were involved with - Unions, human rights, segregation issues, etc. Amazing decade.

Dan, what an extrodinary event! Thanks for the telling of it.

1967? Lessee here, now. I think I had just come back to Boston after some time spent in New York, trying to run the second largest news wire service into the ground (with some success). Or, was that a year earlier? Kept making plans to get up to Montreal for the Expo. Never made it. I was mostly unavoidably drunk at the time. As the old saying goes, if you actually remember the '60s, you weren't there.

Thanks for the new thread Elizabeth.

Happy Monday to everyone.

all clicked

In '67 I was but a gleam in my father's eye! ((depending on what month(s) it occurred!)) I came along June of the next year!

But I am all clicked for today!
Happy Monday and Martin Luther King Day as well!

all double clicked in. Still trying to recover from two days of Cope Cod Chorale concerts.Powerful. My memories of Expo 67 are so extensive that I'll have to take a while to organize them.

I hope this shows more detail than the last photo.
It is the pennies - however, they are from the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair.

I now feel old