15 Gorgeous Retro-Future Photos From The 1964 World's Fair

Fifty years ago yesterday, the World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, N.Y. The event was a watershed moment for 1960s America, which was still putting the assassination of President Kennedy in the past. Though the Vietnam War and resulting social upheaval were only just getting underway, the fair exhibited the nation's postwar optimism of a bright, technological future.  Spanning two six-month seasons from April 1964 to October 1965, the fair was full of space-age futurism,...