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Sunday, December 11, 2016

the 1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR poster, a new humanism
Expo '58,
  the first world's fair after World War II,  took place in Belgium during the cold war:
 from Wikipedia . . . "The autograph of Mozart's Requiem was placed on display.  At some point, someone was able to gain access to the manuscript, tearing off the bottom right-hand corner of the second to last page (folio 99r/45r), containing the words "Quam olim d: C:".  As of 2012 the perpetrator has not been identified and the fragment has not been recovered.  If the most common authorship theory is true, then "Quam olim d: C:" might very well be the last words Mozart wrote before he died.  It is probable that whoever stole the fragment believed that to be the case."
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
Expo 58 blue entry tickets photograph
entry tickets were printed in both Belgian languages,  and apparently
cost 30 franks ... attendance was 41 million people
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
The Atomium photograph from above
  the Atomium ... a giant model of a unit cell of an iron crystal 
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the 1958 Brussels World's Fair Atomium now, ground view
the Atomium now      
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escalator inside the Atomium photograph
an escalator inside the Atomium       see full size
     
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair Atomium Momentos
1958 Atomium momentos
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
American pavilion 1958 wf photograph
  the American pavilion (above) used Walt Disney's 'Circarama',  a completely
surrounding projection technology that was later called Circle-Vision 360°
at Expo 67 in Canada ... the Soviet pavilion had a model of Sputnik which
mysteriously disappeared,  and they accused the US of stealing it 
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
Russian pavilion interior 1958 wf Grand Prix winner
part of the Russian pavilion ... a map shows nuclear icebreaker routes
(the Soviet exposition was awarded with a Grand Prix)
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
Luxembourg pavilion interior photo 1958 wf
an interior of the Luxembourg pavilion       see full size
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
Walkway and Thailand pavilion 1958 wf
the Thailand pavilion,  seen from under the walkway       see full size
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf Pavillon des Postes et Télécommunication
  the 'Pavillon des Postes et Télécommunication'       see full size
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
George Nelson Marshmallow Sofa
  in the Atomium was George Nelson's modular design,  'Marshmallow Sofa' 
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1958 wf pavilion photograph
a recent photograph       see full size
     
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair Czech pavilion interior
the Czech pavilion
      
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair USSR Russia pavilion
the USSR pavilion      
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1958 Brussels World Fair interior
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
              
1958 Brussels Worlds Fair dome
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair Glass Tower
       
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1958 Brussels Worlds fair fountain
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1958 Brussels World fair miniature future landscape
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair interior gate
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1958 Brussels Worlds Fair pavilion
   

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf pavilion photograph
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf pavilion photograph
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf Yugoslavia pavilion photograph
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf pavilion photograph
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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf entrance gate
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1958 wf pavilion photograph
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf pavilion photograph
these buildings are old now,  and they show it a little
     
1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR
       
1958 wf walkway photograph with starbursts
the walkway at night in 1958       see full size