Expo's, World's Fair, etc.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/shanghai_prepares_for_expo_201.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/shanghais_expo_nearly_ready.html

I'm going to try to catch this at the Toronto Indie Film Festival next week (concurrent with the big one? I think so--I only go now if my friend throws me a ticket):

http://www.wheresthefair.com/

When I was a kid, my family went to Montreal's "Man and His World" in 1968, the year after Expo '67. I think the latter was classified as a World's Fair, but I don't know about what I saw. Anyway, whatever happened to them? It's a good question.

America in world ignorance non-shocker. They're still going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_expositions

Thanks. According to that, what we saw didn't count (just the remnants of '67, I guess)--San Antonio gets credit for the '68 World's Fair.

Bought this on a whim at a store-closing sale a few months ago--liked it a lot:

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/images/Tomorrow-Land-COVER.jpg

Much like Summer of '68, a baseball book I just read, it's half about the ostensible subject and half about the larger context. I honestly didn't know a thing about Robert Moses going in--such an amazing autocrat. I really regret missing that documentary I posted about above. I have an irrational desire to start collecting postcards from the '64/65 and '67 Fairs. The Expo '67 ones are really nice, but there are so many of them.

wow that looks really cool!

after my mother-in-law passed away we found photos of her at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition. super great.

I went to World Expo 88 in Brisbane, at the time I thought it was RAD. I mainly remember the food pavilion, and the China pavillion which was freaking enormous & marvelous. Oh and my aunt was in a wheelchair so we got to jump all the lines :D