PicFic Tuesday Prompt for November 11th 2014

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Apologies, as this prompt should have posted yesterday.

Rules of the Challenge:

Due: Tuesday, November 11th
Statistical stuff: Minimum 500 words
Subject Matter: Should fit into the GENeral concepts of the community, and contains nothing explicit and reflects the 1960's series in style and content. However, that being said, there is a GEN-mature tag option for stories that contain violence, torture, angst or mild het. (for these please add an appropriate warning at the beginning of your story)
Subject Header: Please include in your Subject Header the phrase "For Picfic Tuesday, the due date and your title
Tags: Use PicFic, Gen or Gen-mature

It was 50 years ago this year that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. came on the scene, but it's also the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 New York World's Fair.  Some of us were lucky enough to have been there...

So here's your prompt:

                                  

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

That's cool... oddly enough my first thought was Disneyland.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I was trolling for a pic and don't know how I came to this one...brought back memories for me and given it's also the 50th anniversary of the NY Worlds Fair, I thought it apropos.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about the New York World's Fair. Some research needed methinks :-)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Plenty of info out there....plus the story will be about the guys, the fair might only be a backdrop or just mentioned, so you don't have to go crazy . A few of us will have an advantage of actually having gone to the Worlds Fair...

[carabele.livejournal.com]

Ah, the 1964 NY World's Fair: I remember it well.

Especially impressive to my 11-year-old mind were all the animatronics. That was brand-spanking-new technology and it really wow'd. Seeing life-size figures of various U.S. Presidents stand and deliver their signature speeches is something I will never forget.

Animatronics is old hat now of course. But back then it was truly eye-popping.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

We're on the same page. Yep animatronics, dinosaurs, It's a Small World, the Pieta...the Carousel of Progress and let's not forget the 'Webway people mover," that was really a perfect prediction for the future as it's now in airports all over the world!

[carabele.livejournal.com]

I remember going into the area with the Pieta with two of my sisters. We were all about the same age (couple years apart) and we just stared and stared. The statue was so gorgeous and the way it was displayed, with the colored lighting and that, was just magnificent.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I agree, it was mesmerizing. It was terrible that it was damaged by that crazed..Hungarian in 1974(?) At least they were able to restore it. Her nose was broken off and the outstretched hand was badly damaged. sigh.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

That picture takes me back. I had a penfriend in Buffalo who visited the fair and sent me a brooch with my name engraved on an oval with that globe hanging below it.

It has been lost somewhere in the passing years.

And OH says you're all the modern equivalent of our childhood penfriends.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not that globe, called the Unisphere is still standing, along with 3 statues commissioned for the Worlds Fair.

And penfriends are a good thing! :D

[vysila.livejournal.com]

I visited the site of the Fair when I was in NYC last year. It's still fabulous and I swear I could smell those Belgian waffles!

Ages ago I started an MFU story about the 1964 World's Fair. It got bogged down and never finished but I loved how it made me feel - remembering being a young small town kid in the big city for the first time - the crowds! The noise! The buildings! The amazing magic all around. It was my first exposure to the greater world outside my small town.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Sounds amazing. I'm blown away at how much interest this photo is generating. Hey maybe you can adapt your story for the Picfic? Revisit those memories!