Ford Wonder Rotunda at the 1964 New York World's Fair

 


ALMOST EVERY form of entertainment that actually lives up to its advance notices these days is virtually a guarantee of solid enjoyment for the ticket holder. An even stronger guarantee is a sustained and enthusiastic approval by the audience — and although no tickets are required at the Ford Wonder Rotunda (it's free), the thousands upon thousands of visitors who have been thrilled and awed by Walt Disney's Magic Skyway and other spectacular attractions speak convincingly of the superb entertainment in store for you.

This dramatic exhibit structure, in the transportation section of the Fair, features a unique and exciting automobile trip through a fantasy land of the past, present and future, created by Walt Disney.

This unique building has a glass rotunda with 64 towering pylons at one end and a large exhibition hall at the other. It contains a variety of exhibits, a number of which were designed by Walt Disney.


Among the many popular attractions of the Wonder Rotunda are the International Gardens in the Rotunda area. Here the small fry get the chance to look down at miniature reproduction of colonial America, one of twelve countries fashioned in exquisite detail

On Magic Skyway ride visitors "live" in prehistoric times and in this animated tableau watch a life- size Tyrannosaurus rex and an armor-backed Stegasaurus slash at one another in battle for survival

Some scenes almost bring guests off their seats with excitement. In this one, cave men have trapped a huge mammoth in a pit and are about to apply the coup de grâce with a mighty boulder

America's most exciting new car, the Ford Mustang, shows off its sleek elegance at the Ford Wonder Rotunda where it was first introduced.

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source: Ford Times | July 1964







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