60 Years Ago Today: The Opening of the 1964 New York World’s Fair

Like the man says — that anniversary is today! And I’d love to share a little article about it here with you…but for the fact that I’m presenting a talk on that very topic this Sunday April 28, at 3pm. I hope you will attend, because (as I mentioned in my video) we’ll have a panel of three special guests who attended the fair, all of whom are our kind of show biz folk. They are:

David Adamovich, also known as The Great Throwdini, who worked the fair as an acrobat,

plus old school entertainer Michael Townsend Wright (as seen on the Uncle Floyd Show),

and the great teacher, clown and all-around good scout Deborah Kaufman.

We round out the event with an open floor, where you, too, can share your World’s Fair memories! And, check it out, it’s the first talk I’ve ever given that will have a ASL sign interpreter!

Furthermore it’s a kick off for a TERRIFIC series the Queens Theatre has planned. Tix are $17 and all the info is here.

Lastly….if you’re unable to attend in person, as I did with my 2019 talk about the 1939 World’s Fair, I’ll put some version of my talk in essay form here, sometime after Sunday.