Vintage photos of the 1964 World's Fair

Diners in Top of the Fair restaurant, high above ground, view the 1964 World’s Fair taking shape below on Oct. 25, 1963. In center background is the Unisphere, huge structure representing the world, which is the centerpiece and symbol of the fair. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

Norwegian guides at the Norway display of the New York World’s Fair so some sightseeing near their exhibit on Thursday, April 24, 1964. Above Jorunn Bakker, left, and Else Stordalen are the cars of the Swiss Sky Ride. At right is the Sudan pavilion. (AP Photo)

Another of the many displays to brief youngsters on the fundamentals of atomic energy at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Atomsville, U.S.A., area is this one which demonstrates relative weight. By pushing the oversize buttons connected to equal size cubes of different elements behind the portholes, the children learn that size and weight of copper, Iron, lead and uranium blocks are deceiving. Uranium is ten times as heavy as the same size block of aluminum. Atomsville is the AEC’s exhibit for children at the World’s Fair Hall of Science pavilion in New York on Sept. 22, 1964. (AP Photo/DP)

Mexican dancers break into song and dance during opening day parade at the New York World’s Fair on April 21, 1965. The parade marked the opening of the fair’s second year. The Mexican pavilion is one of the more popular foreign pavilions of the exposition. (AP Photo)

Father Knickerbocker, portrayed by Jim O’Brien, snips the official ribbon opening the main gate of the New York World’s Fair to visitors on Wednesday, April 21, 1965. Balloons were released and the fair’s second year got underway. (AP Photo)

Honors which are well earned are accepted calmly and graciously by these American women at ceremonies at the New York World’s Fair Better Living Center on May 27, 1965 at which ten deceased American Women are installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame. From left are Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist; Dr. Frances O Kelsey, the medical officer who refused to sanction the distribution of thalidomide; Actress Helen Hayes and Actress Katherine Cornell who received the honor on behalf of her close friend, famed Helen Keller. (AP Photo)

Thousands mill about in the vicinity of the Unisphere and the fountains on the last day of the New York World’s Fair, Oct. 17, 1965. Nearly half a million paid admissions were recorded at the gates of the fair as it approached the end of its two-season run. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)

Miss Ester Harden, right, of Florida prepares the GM hostesses for the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, USA, the day before the fair opens, 21st April 1964. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Civil rights protestors marching outside the World's Fair in New York, April 26th 1964. (Photo by Helmut Kretz/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Overhead view of sightseers standing on a large floor map of Long Island and New York State in the New York State Pavilion of the World's Fair in Flushing, New York on August 1, 1965.

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, second right, laughs with Robert Moses, center, while visiting the Churchill Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, New York on May 9, 1965.

LIBRARY DATE STAMP READS SEPTEMBER 6, 1965: CROWDS LINE THE "AVENUE OF AT THE 1965 WORLD'S FAIR. . Film ? Image

Crowds walk around the Unisphere on Aug. 15,1965

Visitors to the New York State Pavillion look over the Worlds Fair which reopend on April 21, 1965

The double lines at the Johnson Wax Museum on April, 22, 1965

On April 20, 1965, teens camp out near the entrance to the New York World's Fair, hoping to be among the first through the gates when the Fair opened for the season. Gary Schuster, 17, of New Jersey, had waited two days at the head of the line, but was beat out first to enter by Leonard Landeman, 16, of Plainview, when multiple turnstiles were opened at once.

12th August 1964: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) waves with his children, Yolanda and Martin Luther III, from the 'Magic Skyway' ride at the Worlds Fair, New York City. The ride was a replica of a Ford convertible. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)