Expo_Seeker40
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Very cool photos! Here's a color picture I found from the original ending at the world's fair.
The backstory is: It's Christmas Day in the 1960s, John and Sarah are home with Rover just before Dinner time. Jane (which later became Patty) and James, who age ever few years between scenes, are old enough to head to the airport to pick up Grandpa and Grandpa, who are flying into town from a new senior citizen community. No word were Orville is, but he probably got evicted. Sarah is relaxing on the couch with the cat fluffy because her GE olive colored appliances are doing everything for her, while John channel surfs with the GE color television. They are a wealthy enough family to also own a prototype VCR next to their TV Console (though the VCR wouldn't be perfected until the early 1970s).
They live in an average suburban neighborhood. While the original script from late 1962/early 1963 sites the family's last name as Peabody and that they live in Middleburg USA. There was influence from GE suits later on to place the family in suburban Schenectady, NY where GE's original headquarters were. While there is no actual mention of the town, it is interesting to see them living in a snowy, pine tree, cookie cutter community made for GE employees, let alone "our town's new jet airport" could be a "coincidental" reference to the newly expanded/nearby Albany International Airport which welcomed jet service in 1963.
The scene changed a little bit when it came to Disneyland. They removed the screens on the windows and turned it into a sun porch. The family was now residing at EPCOT/Progress City! The dining room was also extended out.
The backstory is: It's Christmas Day in the 1960s, John and Sarah are home with Rover just before Dinner time. Jane (which later became Patty) and James, who age ever few years between scenes, are old enough to head to the airport to pick up Grandpa and Grandpa, who are flying into town from a new senior citizen community. No word were Orville is, but he probably got evicted. Sarah is relaxing on the couch with the cat fluffy because her GE olive colored appliances are doing everything for her, while John channel surfs with the GE color television. They are a wealthy enough family to also own a prototype VCR next to their TV Console (though the VCR wouldn't be perfected until the early 1970s).
They live in an average suburban neighborhood. While the original script from late 1962/early 1963 sites the family's last name as Peabody and that they live in Middleburg USA. There was influence from GE suits later on to place the family in suburban Schenectady, NY where GE's original headquarters were. While there is no actual mention of the town, it is interesting to see them living in a snowy, pine tree, cookie cutter community made for GE employees, let alone "our town's new jet airport" could be a "coincidental" reference to the newly expanded/nearby Albany International Airport which welcomed jet service in 1963.
The scene changed a little bit when it came to Disneyland. They removed the screens on the windows and turned it into a sun porch. The family was now residing at EPCOT/Progress City! The dining room was also extended out.
