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The New York World Exposition 1939 & 1940
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Year: | 1939 | | City: | New York | | Country: | USA | | Duration: | 30th April - 31st October 1939 und 11th |
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Facts and Figures
Facts
Official name: New York World´s Fair 1939-1940
Occasion: 150. Anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration
Motto: Building the World of tomorrow
Category: General Exhibition 2. Category
Landmark: Trylon and Perisphere
Location: Flushing Meadows Park, Queens
Duration: 30 April – 31 October 1939 and 11 May – 27 October 1940 (351 days)
Opening: 30 April 1939, attended by President Roosevelt
Area: 500 hectare
President of the Fair: Grover Loysius Whalen
Head of New York Parks Commission: Robert Moses
Architect of the Theme Center: Wallace K. Harrison and Jacques André Fouilhoux
Exhibitors: 1.500
Employees: 50.000
Visitors: close to 45 million (1939: 25.8 million, 1940: 19.14 million)
Organisation: private Fair Corporation
Entrance fee: 75 cents, season ticket 15 dollars
Expenditure: 125 million dollars
Deficit: 18 million dollars
Participants: 54 nations in 22 nation pavilions, 26 pavilions of American Federal States, numerous company pavilions – all together 300 buildings
Classification: none
Jury: none
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