Some more info...
The fair at the Flushing Meadow Park ran from April 22 to October 18, 1964
and then again from April 21 to October 17, 1965.
Gates opened at 9 a.m. everyday (including Sundays and holidays).
General admission tickets sold at a price of $2 per adult and $1 per child.
Among the many attractions and pavilions at the new York World's Fair were 4 designed by Disney: The Ford Rotunda, a building several blocks long featured a number of exhibits which emphasized automobiles.
Fairgoers, seated in 1964 Ford convertibles and riding the "Magic Skyway", were first taken for a ride through plastic tunnels, around the outside of the rotunda for a sweeping view of the grounds, then onto the exhibit building and the fantasy-land within.
Guests were brought back into prehistoric times while viewing huge dinosaurs munching vegetation.
This portion of the "Magic Skyway" would later be moved to Disneyland.
(Enough steel went into the construction of the Ford Rotunda to erect a 22 storie high skyscraper.)
General Electric's Pavilion, under a huge flattened dome suspended from spiral pipes, presented "Progressland" depicting the history of electricity from its beginnings to the mighty bang of nuclear fusion.
Its multi-part show used a unique theater. Separate auditoriums, each holding 250 people, circle the various stage set in the middle, and stop to watch life-sized 3-D audio-animatronic people act out the story of electricity in the home from the 1890's to the present.
After viewing the show inside, guests went upstairs to view Progress City (Walt Disney's 160-foot scale model for EPCOT).
Admission was free and each show lasted 45 minutes.
Pepsi's Pavilion brought a small scale Disneyland to the fair in a salute to the children of the world.
The nine minute boat ride called "it's a small world - A Salute to UNICEF" carried spectators past familiar miniature scenes as France's Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill and India's Taj Mahal.
The animated children, animals and birds sang and danced to the theme song called "It's a Small World."
The ride cost 95 cents for adults and 60 cents for children.
The highlight of the Illinois Pavilion in a 500 seat theater was a life-sized audio-animatronic figure of Abraham Lincoln.
"Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" (which officially opened on May 2, 1964) included excerpts from Lincoln's speeches on liberty, civil rights and freedom.
The figure was capable of more than 250,000 combinations of action, including smiles, frowns, and gestures.
These 4 attractions (which all used Audio-Animatronics) were among the most popular and most visited at the fair. Robert Moses, the president of the New York World's Fair, asked Walt Disney to takeover the fairgrounds after 1965 and turn it into some sort of East coast Disneyland.
Walt passed on the idea of a park in New York, but he did take these World's Fair attractions to his Anaheim, California park.
There you go...
). I remeber the Ford Pavillion so well and the Pepsi (Small World), and Mr. Lincoln (the Illinois Pavillion?) I vaguely remember some sort of People Mover thing too, but I may have seen this later in DL.
