Thursday, May 16, 2013

NY Worlds Fair #4


Life Magazine did a big spread on the Fair and pointed out the flops.
There was a beautiful theater close to us that did a show called "To Broadway With Love" with a huge cast and orchestra that presented the history of Broadway with highlights of  all the big shows.
Like us their audiences for the most part weren't big enough for a good fist fight.

Posted by Buckles at 5/16/2013 05:44:00 AM

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Your last line reminds me of Roger

Boyd's favorite expression on a slow

day after checking the house before

a performance he would appear at the

back door & exclaim "They better

not start anything 'cause we have

them outnumbered"

16 May, 2013 09:01
Chic Silber said...


These few lines are from that "Life"

One of the fair's major
shortcomings was the absence of a
midway. The fair's organizers were
opposed, on principle, to the honky
tonk atmosphere of midways. What
amusements the fair actually had
ended up being largely dull. The
Meadow Lake Amusement Area wasn't
easily accessible.

The fair's big entertainment
spectacles, including aquacades at
the Meadow Lake Amphitheater,
"To Broadway with Love" in the
Texas Pavilion, and Dick Button's
"Ice-travaganza" in the New York
City Pavilion, all closed ahead of
schedule, with heavy losses.

In March 1965 a group of bankers
and politicians asked showman Billy
Rose to take over the fair, which
he declined stating: "I'd rather be
hit by a baseball bat" and "cancer
in its last stages never attracted
me very much".

16 May, 2013 10:02

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