| Show ODDITIES ax AT THE tr T T 4 FAIR NEW YORK here 71 ere are a few oj of the strikingly unusual things visitors will find at the new york worlds fair 1939 A parachute tower from which visitors may ball bail out at an elevation of feet and be sure of a happy landing revolving magic carpets from which you may look down as from a height of two miles upon the city of tomorrow inside the foot A tree of life carved from the trunk and branches of an elm planted in connecticut in 1781 by revolutionary war prisoners steve brodie jumping ax six times a day from a reproduction of the brooklyn bridge the most valuable wheat field tor for its size in the world in full growth five million dollars worth of diamonds rubles rubies emeralds and other gems in one glittering display the steel walled bathysphere in which descent has been made miles down in the black depths of the ocean rocket gun by which passengers will be shot to the moon or mars someday perhaps the model of a human eye so large visitors may enter it and look out upon the fairs busy scene just as if the eye were doing the looking two hundred blooded cows being milked daily on a revolving platform an orange grove t transplanted rans planted intact all the way from florida automobiles with living drivers in hair raising collisions and flying somersaults the largest opal in afi the e world an oil well in operation with real drillers drillars dr illers in the cast the largest model railroad ever constructed puppets 14 feet tall dramatizing the contents ot of the familiar bathroom medicine cabinet displays of rare orchids renewed every three days by plants flown to the fair from venezuela the tremendous dir discharge charge of volts of man made lightning A brazilian exhibit building erected on stilts I 1 A floor made of cotton runners from south africa six and a hall half feet tall and clad mostly in feathers horns and beads A waterfall cascading from the high roof of a building mural paintings that change their colors while youre looking at them fireworks set to music in related patterns of color and light A city entirely populated by midgets fidgets mid gets an automobile speedway half a mile long on top of an exhibit building mighty snowstorms snow storms sweeping down out of a clear spring sky A building turned inside out with its roof beams on the outside moving chairs traveling around in a building so visitors wont have to walk A flight to venus so real swear youve been there and met the folks the tallest mural paintings in the world A model of new york city so large that the empire state building is is reproduced 23 fe feet et tall I 1 A sphere feet in diameter seeming to revolve revolve on jets of water like the little silver b ball all in the shooting gallery A fountain that sings paintings that have to be destroyed every ni night foht and done all over again next Y morning A fountain of if the atom with electrons and protons dancing around a pulsating shaft of light |
