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Postcard 1964-65 NY World's Fair Glide-A-Ride Train Chrome Unisphere Official
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Postcard 1964-65 NY World's Fair Glide-A-Ride Train Chrome Unisphere Official

Flushing Meadows, New York, USA1964ChromeExcellent

Tractor-powered carriages glide in a stately procession past the soaring Rocket Thrower sculpture at the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, while a corner vignette inset shows the iconic Unisphere gleaming against a steel-blue sky — a double dose of mid-century futurism on a single chrome card. The "Glide-a-Ride" trains, operated on east-west and north-south axes across the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds, were beloved for their musical horns that played a melodious tune as they ferried fairgoers between pavilions. The fair's theme, "Peace through Understanding," is printed proudly on the reverse, a hopeful Cold War-era motto made tangible through the gleaming architecture and international pavilions visible in the background. This is an official World's Fair postcard, published by Dexter of West Nyack, NY, bearing the copyright of the New York World's Fair 1964–1965 Corporation. The diversity of fairgoers visible in the open cars — men in suit jackets, women in summer dresses — is a vivid snapshot of a pivotal American cultural moment.

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PC-04825 · Dexter, West Nyack, N.Y.
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