This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Panam...  ...sco. Most people just called it the World’s Fair . The purpose of the exposition was to celebrate t...  ...Canal and the ease of travel it brought, but the fair also celebrated San Francisco rising from the ash...  ...unt to an entire city elsewhere...

The Atomium was built for Expo 58, the World&rsquo...  ...Atomium was built for Expo 58, the World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium in 1958. It is a building in...  ...the public, and they make up a museum of the 1958 fair . Atlas Obscura tells the story of the Atomium, pl...  ...earlier building from the Bruss...

(video link) On this date in 1939, the New York...  ...link) On this date in 1939, the New York World's fair opened. One of the exhibits was a ride called Fut...  ...out Futurama and Futurama II (at the 1964 World's Fair ) at Wired. Link -via Metafilter

I know, I know, the song is an infectious earwig a...  ...may never get to experience the original World's Fair version that has resided in Fantasyland for the p...  ...ll; The attraction debuted at the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York.• Major themes of the boat ride...