1964-65 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR - Ford Magic Skyway

[@invicta62]

I drove from RI to the fair in my new 1964 Chevelle with my girlfriend (wife now), my younger brother, my mom and her mom. I forget what kind of car we rode in during the tour. I almost opted for a new Mustang that year. Those were certainly good days. I was 18.

[@tcvesely]

I went in 1964 and 65 at 5 years old still remember my sky ride and the first time I had an egg roll...Love you MOM, Thanks for the great birthday so long ago.

[@douglasheller8311]

I was 6 and also remember the Skyway ride.

[@mazzie9663]

I was there with my family. My father was a musician at The Greek Pavillon and we visited many times. It was a great World’s Fair. I was 11 and I remember AT&T showcasing a phone with the ability to see each other during the call!! Now it is common place.

[@ArticIce56]

Some of my earliest memories are riding in a car at the Magic Skyway looking at all those strange and somewhat frightening dinosaurs :) I must have been two or three when I was there with my family. The other thing I remember was the Skydome Spectacular.

[@karenstrycharz1499]

I so loved the World’s Fair! Such a magical place!

[@karenstrycharz1499]

It was indeed!

[@47barolo]

I was 10 at the time of the Fair and lived about a mile away from it in Flushing. I remember this ride well, great fun for a 10 year old. GM, Bell Telephone and IBM (the "people wall") were also great fun rides.

[@summerof72]

so cool! I so want a time machine so that I can visit this Fair!!

[@fayeteville]

Nancy Geyer u can watch a movie " tomorrowland" and see the NYWF .

[@MsDisneylandlover]

They had one there no pun intended. Lol

[@elizabethhopkins7582]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I went to the 1964 World's Fair a bunch of times and remember everything about this ride!

[@tschuler9923]

Absolutely fantastic retrospective of what is IMHO the quintessence of Worlds Fairs. Thanks for this.

[@howardgreenman2908]

I was 11 when the Fair opened in 1964. We lived about ten minutes from the fair. I went there with the family about 20 times over the two years. Rode the Magic Skyway a few times as well as the GM Futurama. I loved the cars at Ford but I liked the GM ride better as it was a bit more mature.. Ford’s Disney ride catered to younger kids. Some of my happiest memories.

[@whitefalcon74]

went there when i was a kid never forgot it wonderfull memory thx for the upload jo

[@jackjohnson7396]

I was lucky enough to go both years. Ford and GM exhibits were the best. I remember some of this video with the cars but not a lot as a young teen. RCA exhibit was a big deal with people going in to see themselves on Video or Tv as they called it then. Great time to be young.

[@disneyfan85]

I believe my grandparents went to the fair and saw this thing! As you probably know, the dinosaur segment is the only part of the ride that survived the move to Disneyland. They are now part of the Primeval World diorama along the Disneyland Railroad!

[@emintey]

I was there, I and my friends would climb over the train tracks and over a fence to sneak in.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

i wish they kept the cavemen part too.

[@vtecanddohc]

I remember the dinosaurs being part of the railroad way back in 2000!

[@ztslovebird]

I thought i read somewhere that the mammoth was turned into an elephant & added to the elephant bathing scene in Jungle Cruise.

[@stevekaspruk625]

I was at this fair in 1964 at the age of 9 with my mom and sisters. It was amazing. Still remember every minute there. Mom bought me the toy of the US Royal Tire, which ran on batteries. Don't know what happened to it.

[@lindawatkin4411]

I was there and it was a lot of fun.

[@frdjr2527]

The first time I ever drove a Mustang was on the Magic Skyway! I was all of 12 in 1964. Those were really fun times!

[@blinkereye123]

Beautiful. Thanks for remembering the past ;). Peace.

[@alextan1478]

7:00, the Stegosaurus fighting the Tyrannosaurus Rex is an allusion to a famous scene in The Rite of Spring from Fantasia.

[@devanhinskey9001]

Yup. Also, the “Rite of Spring” sequence was originally planned to end with the arrival of early man and the discovery of fire. However, this was scrapped because Walt was afraid of offending religious groups. I like to think that the cavemen in the Ford Magic Skyway as a realization of that original concept.

[@hebneh]

"Showplace of the '60s!" At the age of 10, I got to sit at the wheel of a new Mustang convertible to go through this ride, and that was probably the most exciting part - certainly it's what I remember the best. I do vaguely recall the brontosaurus chewing on some weeds, and the finale (shown here only as an illustration) stirs a bit of memory too. This was when the future was going to be marvelous through the constant innovations of technology.

[@zac613]

yes you are correct! A lot of the Disney robots from the 1964 world fair were put in the Disney parks after the fair closed.

[@Janadu]

I remember going on this ride. I was 9 years old! Yikes....time flies

[@bmbmd]

Yep. I rode it too.

[@museman1853]

I went on this ride when I was 8 years old in 1965. The impression it made on me at that age will stay with me forever...

[@gregglevin5612]

I went to this Exhibit at the World's Fair of 64 -65 and remenber it well. I lived a bike ride away from Parson and Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens, NY, USA.. I must laugh as my brother rode me to World's Fair on his bike's handle bars. I was seven years old .. times have changed. lol. .

[@sjtom57]

Great video. So many memories.

[@68lincoln]

They were neat. I was a kid when my family attended the 1964/65 NY World's Fair and it was a very happy experience. I suspect that we don't have these fairs anymore because corporations and countries no longer want to spend the money to build them. I also think that the threat of terrorism would be a big security concern in this dangerous world that we have today. It was a more innocent and safer time in America in the 1960s when I was growing up. Never even heard of terrorism in those days.

[@knightofarkronia9968]

68lincoln War seems to be more profitable these days.

[@seabeach7]

OMG I was only 4 years old but I can remember doing this with my parents Ford car ride with them. Thanks the flash back

[@purplecow0820]

Me too! I remember the car going into the flashing light tunnel and the squatting caveman ! I also remember the display of moving instruments before the ride. Its amazing what you remember at 4!

[@billsav57]

Those wheels scared the heck out of me at the time!

[@matrox]

I still have souveniers from then when I was a kid.

[@MerleOberon]

My family was in line for this exhibit, as a 9 year old, I was so excited to see a Mustang coming down the line, but, being there was 5 of us, we had to wait, a single man, behind us, went ahead, got in the back seat of the Mustang, pushed the front passenger seat down, and put his legs up. I thought he was the coolest man who ever lived! We had to wait for the Galaxie, I have wondered about him ever since....

[@33Keith33]

I've been looking for this for years! Thank you!!!

[@AJ17_]

Mauricio Ledesma: The cavemen in Magic Skyway are not the same ones in Spaceship Earth at Epcot. Once the Fair closed, those cavemen were not reused anywhere. However, the dinosaur scenes were moved to Disneyland in California and added to the railroad attraction. There's a long tunnel you go through behind Tomorrowland that includes the dinosaurs (Primeval World) and a diorama of the Grand Canyon.

[@queenmedesa]

Those big cars were so cool

[@Dimxanpie]

Really cool. doing so research on how the haunted mansion came to be and found that the ford magic skyway had a big part in inspiring the imagineers to create what is now the doombuggie.

[@zac613]

How come we don't have World's Fairs anymore? They seem pretty neat!

[@TheChoochooboy99]

The next full World’s Fair is set to take place in Dubai next year.

[@karenstrycharz1499]

Good question, now that you mention it!!! I know the are expensive for any city to take n or state but remember hearing about the World’s Fair( Elvis movie in GI Blues) & Montreal , Canada Fair in 1967( went to that one too) but they do not seem as frequent, unfortunately! How I lived this “World’s Fair!”

[@steveabitante8220]

R.I.P. MA & GRANDMA WE MISS YOU DEARLY!

[@ZnenTitan]

This is really where the fifties ended and the sixties began.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

all this can be seen in on the train man I wish I was able to go back in time n ride this.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

The invention of audio-animatronics was the greatest invention known to man up to that moment in the 1960's.

[@mohammedcohen]

...in June 1964 my entire high school (DePaul Diocesan High, Wayne, NJ) went to the fair - the Ford Pavilion was one of my highlights ( the reason for going - allegedly - was to see Michelangelo's sculpture 'The Pieta', on loan from the Vatican Museum to the Vatican Pavilion...

[@TrashLefties]

Sounds really neat. Reminds me of Horizons, World of Motion and Spaceship Earth at Epcot combined.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

thanks for this i wish i could back n time r wish this was at disneyland

[@thebrinksf69]

It is at Disneyland on the train ride.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

yes but not all of it i wish they put the cave ppl n it

[@nythawknight6577]

At 9:17, "Have a nice day at work dear. Don't forget to stop by the store and get some Brontoburgers and dinomilk." OK dear, Yabba Dabba Do

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@NJWells92]

Do you have the original print? The guys over at RetroWDW would love to have the footage to restore

[@Thoralmir]

We used to dream so big back then... what the hell happened?

[@musicom67]

Thoralmir The dreams turned into nightmares.

[@Thoralmir]

***** Cynic. I prefer to make dreams a reality. Wonderful things get accomplished that way.

[@charlesballiet7074]

what happened is dreamers where put behind a wall of debt and told "your dreams wont earn us enough money by next year we cant invest in the future"

[@MsDisneylandlover]

call phones n facebook

[@MsDisneylandlover]

cell phone n facebook and IG

[@tcvesely]

My Dad graduated PS 129 in 1939.then went to Flushing High.. also worked 18 years for Edo and then Bellock..

[@Rickyrab]

Judging from the promotions, the 1964 WF reminds one an awful lot of Disney World.

[@GPXBrent]

It was designed by Disney imagineers and some animatronics got transported to Disneyland.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

At 0:17, it says that the display was designed by WED Enterprises. WED stood for the initials of Walter Elias Disney.

[@awesomeferret]

This is pretty cool. No thanks for "forcing" me to download this video just so I can watch properly in 4:3, though.

[@musicom67]

+awesomeferret My pleasure! Hope the download was fast for you. I received the clip in 16:9. Sorry I didn't feel up to reformatting it for you.

[@awesomeferret]

MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS could you please add a formatting tag? It will only take a few seconds. support.google.com/youtube/answer/146402?hl=en You would want _yt:stretch=4:3_.

[@musicom67]

+awesomeferret THANK YOU for taking the time. Never knew I could do that. Thanks for being HELPFUL instead of an ass like so many people. Now I can do that for the few I've copped elsewhere and posted which have the same problem. You ARE awesome.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Making of this is kool on the disneyland tv show

[@rascal211]

I was there as a 7 and 8 year old.

[@cornjobb]

it's a shame the "coo-gar" never made it beyond the prototype - lol

[@MsDance2Music]

like those flashing overhead, to anywhere in space. Perhaps some day we will drive jet powered vehicles over weather controlled highways in the sky, like the spiraling tubes around you. But all such dreams begin in the minds of man. Men of vision faith and imagination, men of science and industry, education and the arts. As we have seen along the magic skyway, man is always on the move. Searching and dreaming beyond the horizons

[@danjoda755]

Kind thanks to Musicom for the upload. :-)

[@MsDance2Music]

At the end of the ride, you were in a future world, Walt Disney gave us this message for the future of cars! We've come a long way on our journey with man Here we are on the threshold of tomorrow Man's achievements in Science and Industry have carried us here. And like the blast off of a space vehicle for the moon and beyond, Man's achievements, have challenged our hope and rocketed our dreams beyond the horizons. Perhaps some day we'll be riding rocket ships

[@Marchant2]

It looks like they spared no expense on that pavilion.

[@fayeteville]

those cavemen faces seem familiar since i rode at an epcot´s attraction last year and i pretty much remember their faces, i suppose some of those still are at disneys parks as well as the dinosaurs!

[@ItsIdaho]

1:56 does that speel Austria? If yes what did they do there-

[@freddylubin]

I was on this ride.

[@CamaroAmx]

we still have World's Fair. however, no one seems to care much about them. the next one is in Italy in 2015, then Kazakhstan in 2017. the 2020 one is supposed to be big one like the 64/65 New York World's Fair (but sactioned. the 2 New York one were not sactioned and the reason they lasted longer then 6 months) the last one was in 2012 in South Korea, but it was minor World's fair. the Last major World's Fair was in Seville, Spain in 92.

[@eagiuliani9357]

wonder how much of this actual hardware or technology besides AudioAniMatronics ended up more refined in Florida at Disney World

[@Countjustinrowe]

@TheAngryPepe actually the dinosaurs are at Disneyland, California not Tokyo... look it up :)

[@matrox]

I was there!!!!

[@57medve]

I still have the T-Shirt I wore at that time on wich figures the Unisphere, I was 11 yo and my mother was working at the Guinea pavillion, I was there every day. Wowww...

[@musicom67]

Of all places, the "Guinea pavilion" ;-) Not sure even a hardcore NYWF fan can even picture that pavilion in their mind.

[@57medve]

MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS There are quite afew aces on the net where you can see it.

[@wayneg296]

👍👍😎✌️

[@jbarna1]

Ditto!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

i wish instead of them making starwarland they would make this instead n add other old times favs n they can could yesterdayland

[@Qboro66]

Subjects that were probably left out of the exhibit: 1.The hard working people who built those wonderfull cars and the impact the job had on them. 2.The impact the Autoworkers Union had on the company and their subsequent plants. 3.The impact the company and their subsequent plants had on the ecology. ...And other related subjects too numerous to mention here...ahh the swingin' sixties. I hardly knew ye.

[@fayeteville]

space ship earth (epcot)

[@christinacope562]

Walt Disney had Imagineers work on the exhibits for this World's Fair while he bought property in Florida for his Florida Project that died with him. I believe if that had been successful, the US wouldn't have overdeveloped sprawl and would have more alternative forms of transportation. Now we only have behemoth trucks, SUVs. We sit in traffic as our Earth dies along with the old hopes for the future. Now FoMoCo will no longer manufacture cars except the Mustang. The company is now run by a former furniture CEO. US doesn't even manufacture furniture like it did before China joined WTO. Junk.

[@lindawatkin4411]

I do not think we need World Fairs because of the Internet and worldwide communication.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

In would want to go back time time for the fashioned and the rides but not for the racial things.

[@musicom67]

So true, however, there were plenty of kids of all races (esp. the locals) and backgrounds who visited the Fair 'homogeneously'...

[@paulmoreton6120]

Lots of footage of people walking around. Blah...

[@Disneyfan1955]

Yes! That’s true, but how can you say that It was a different time, remember no internet, it was a lot harder to get information then