John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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20 of splendor borne of the Machine Age and given to mankind. It is the West's Dream of a Decade. A dream which has become a reality and is supported by the pledge of Americans everywhere. The Atlantic side is separated from the Pacific Area lands by a broad avenue of trees which adjoin the International Palace where interior exhibits will be displayed. Countries exhibiting in the Interna- tional Palace include Denmark, Hol- land, Czechoslovakia, Venezuela, Ru- mania, Sweden, Polland, Bulgaria, Portugal, Turkey, Paraguay, Uraguay, I-Iungary, Nicaragua, Germany, Boliv- ia, and Alaska. These nations, in- tent upon bringing out their best fea- tures, are not too dignified to add characteristic touches to Treasure Is- land fun, will make the Pageant of the Pacific memorable. Negotiations are proceeding with more than a dozen other nations, and the Fair opens on February 18, 1939. At least fifty foreign lands will be represented to make San Francisco's Fair the most cosmopolitan and color- ful in the history of the world. It promises to outdo even that of the Panama Pacific International Exposi- tion which until now has been the greatest show ever held in the West. Nations will be on parade with art and industry or dramatic display. Participating countries will design their efforts so as to express the cul- tural rather than the commercial wealth of their lands. Their exhibits will be built around the themes of historical customs and the recreations of their people, and distinctive arts and crafts. Exhibits will be in the Oriental manner. For, although many will be of modern colorful tone there is something of the languor of Pacific Countries which is to dominate the scene. Not only the countries of the Paci- fic and all Latin America have re- sponded to the invitation to take part in the Fair, but Europe is also to be represented in a major way. Twenty- one countries and one United States Territory will have their own individ- ual pavillions, while another nineteen will exhibit in the International Palace. Nations of the Pacific will be to- gether on Treasure Island in a special area designated as the Pacific Basin Area with the pavillions of various countries built on the banks of the picturesque Pacific Nations. The Pa- villion of European Nations and these countries of Latin America on the At- lantic side are separated from the Pacific Area by a broad area of trees and adjoin the International Palace. Treasure Island is a trifie over one mile square, a bit longer than it is wide and the buildings have been so grouped that they may be seen with a minimum of walking. No museum feet at the Golden Gate Exposition, is the slogan used. The main exhibit group comprises six great blocks of exhibit halls. in

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football from experts, may do so at the Academy of Sport. Instruction on baseball will also be given by masters like Joe McCarthy, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and others. Half a million dollars worth of perfume, cosmetics, powders, and other aids to feminine beauty are to be exhibited in the Cosmetics Building. Nearby, an- other building, devoted entirely to Wonien's Apparel will delight the ladies' hearts with its completeness in detail. Another of the great sights is to be a model of a human eye, so large that several visitors may enter it at the same time. One will be able to see the Fair grounds through its pupil. Tomorrow Town, is an advanced concept of community design and housing. A score or more of full scale homes will advise the visitor what to expect in construction for 33,000 to 317,000 for a home. To complete the picture, roads will be laid, and a modern shopping street, playground, and art center will be in- stalled. Education will be presented as the institution which allows for higher civilization, and prevents catastrophe. The School of Tomorrow will be featured. Informative lectures by child psychologists and doctors, and motion pictures will be shown for par- ents. The Hall of Science and of Phar- macy, will depict the modern scienti- fic needs, control of disease, care of the body, and other items. And still a thousand things to do and see! Railroads on Parade, with a pageant of transportation and a model railway system . . . a wealth of mural and sculpture work . . . the Fountain-Lake Amphitheatre, with an island stage and curtains of water. . . . Belgian diamond cutters at work on real jewels . . . fifty separate gardens, colorful and harmonious, to constitute Gardens on Parade . . . New York, the City of Light, nearly a block long, taller than three stories, representing the entire city above and below ground . . . ten mil- lion volts of artificial lighting to be discharged at intervals in one build- ing . . . and still a thousand things to see. . All this for you and you, to be seen, heard, and experienced at the New York World's Fair of 1939. San Francisco has created its own Treasure Islandf' an island which surpasses even the most fanciful dreams of Robert Louis Stevenson in devising a fairy-like structure in the Pacific Ocean. It uses as a unique setting a 400 acre Treasure Island. A man-made island, built in the cen- ter of that great harbor, the San Fran- cisco Bay. Dredges and scows contributed to the construction of this island which grew by day and night just as that first settlement, San Francisco, grew back in 1849. And there it stands today, dredged from the depths of San Francisco Bay to support the towers and palaces of an international exposition. It stands today firm as a rock, every available space devoted to beautiful buildings and exquisite land- scapes. This is America's ofiicial World's Fair of the West, a ground pageant I I mi-.I x ? if' 5? M5 'r a r , n f lik I il' 'll I I f 1 .L I W Ju X! 1 . l v F ' h- - ., .. I I ., I X 11 , . luv' ' Xf 'i '.fw1 ' .. ' -, tfigyvf ef'fy? f-ie. .. age, 4' ...M , -Qi F1 l ll' lg, r In 1 ,. , A I9

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general 200 feet wide by -100 to 900 long and radiatingly spaced by broad courts from a central Court of Homes. To build these stately palaces with their combined exhibit space approach- ing some one million square feet, the cost is some 5S6,750,000, including py- lons, pavillions, stautary, murals, im- pressive fountains and manifold archi- tectural refinements. Apparent in the Treasure Island skyline is the slender 400 foot Tower of the Sun, only 57 feet in diameter. At its base is the Court of Honor. Competing in height with the lofty towers of the Bay Bridge and 72 feet higher than the wooded crest of a neighboring island, this dominant architectural note of the Fair has cost approximately 3535o,ooo. It will mount a -I-I bell Carillon during the Fair. A new Pacific style of architec- ture has been devised to exalt the visitor spiritually into a Never-Never Land where romance in the Ancient mystic forms has been blended into long horizontal lines, setback pyra- mids and mosques characteristic of Maylayan, Incan and Cambodian treat- ments. Tlrere will be a presentation of the distinctive American Indian civilization dramatically presented as part of a Federal exhibit. In addition to be- ing an absorbing exhibit never before presented, it is expected to establish a new vogue for a national crafts- manship that will help the Indian to stand on his feet financially. The Temple of Religion, a 35100,000 structure with a great Tower of Peace, will be constructed where creeds will join in presenting religious displays and activities throughout the Fair. A super-pageant that dramatizes the colorful history of the Eastern Em- pire under many flags from early ex- plorations to modern times, will be presented on a 500 foot stage. There will be a large scale duplica- tion of the real Hollywood Boulevard, including five shops and cafes, a studio with sets, sound stages and typical location scenes, and real celebrities of filmdom. Industrial West, a gigantic mil- lion dollar relief map of the eleven western states, 135 feet square, show- ing dams, transmission lines, rail and highway lines and national resources in exact detail, is in the patio of the Hall of the Western States. A huge model mountain, 50 feet high and strations of every type of Western mining will be found in the Treasure Mountain exhibit. A 2500 mile trip will be made in a few minutes. 400 feet long, with working demon- Be the Guest of the West in '39 is the invitation, See All the Wfest, with San Francisco as host cityf' Here is the 1939 XVorld's Fair at the Pacific Gateway, a significant ex- position of the empires that are build- ing in the golden pathway of the Setting sun. ZI