{"id":26718,"date":"2014-04-24T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26718"},"modified":"2024-01-20T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:56:43","slug":"50-years-ago-this-week-the-1964-worlds-fair-openedfor-some-this-was-the-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26718","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago, This Week&#8230;The 1964 World&#8217;s Fair Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50 Years Ago, This Week&#8230;The 1964 World&#8217;s Fair Opened<\/p>\n<p>For some, this was the first and only time they would see, and be seen, by color television cameras. Just as RCA had made great use of it&#8217;s presence at the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair (also in New York) to introduce the public to television, their &#8217;64 fair presence was focused on color.<\/p>\n<p>Were you there? I was. What do you remember? To help with those memories, here are a few pictures of the RCA TK41s, and film footage of people on the &#8220;color carousel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCA Pavilion Oct. 17 1965\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9Vm_peHmKg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/664468323590720\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/50-Years-Ago-This-Week...The-1964-Worlds-Fair-Opened-For-some-this-was-the-f\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/664468323590720\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477231199_60_50-Years-Ago-This-Week...The-1964-Worlds-Fair-Opened-For-some-this-was-the-f\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/664468323590720\/?type=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477231199_887_50-Years-Ago-This-Week...The-1964-Worlds-Fair-Opened-For-some-this-was-the-f\" width=\"468\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/664478346923051\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Years Ago, This Week&#8230;The 1964 World&#8217;s Fair Opened For some, this was the first and only time they would see, and be seen, by color television cameras. 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