Talk:1939 New York World's Fair

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[edit] emblem photo, perhaps?

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http://www.airportjournals.com/Photos/0507/X/0507020_1.jpg was linked into an X-Files article recently, but if there's something like it available under fair use/free use, it'd be better off here. -- nae'blis (talk) 16:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] PD (!) photos added

Lots of truly PD photos available from Library of Congress. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Caltrop (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Gelernter POV comment replaced

I think this comment is overly POV and have replaced it with a NPOV characterization.

1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter is a sui generis blend of essay and fiction. It is a politically conservative tract which yearns for the days when authorities had authority and Robert Moses knew best. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Caltrop (talk • contribs) .

[edit] More Facts, Less Praise

Statements such as "At night, with the latest in lighting technology switched on, the effect was magical." is POV, and has no place in the article. Please clean the article and present a neutral POV.

The quoted statement was probably from some pavillion marketing brochure from the Fair, or possibly from Fair marketing materials themselves. However, it also would have been a pretty typcial statement by a visitor of the time. As such, it is a neutral point of view of the time. The fact that current readers and TV watchers can not imagine a time where people had attitudes that differ from their own current attitudes does not mean that such times did not exist. Reading the literature of the day with a sufficiently open mind to believe that even a little of it was written truthfully, or talking to any of the few remaining people that were alive then should make it a bit more obvious that people had rather different ideas back then.Loren.wilton (talk) 21:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)