What Happened To Cool World's Fairs ? - Beyond Tiki

T tikijackalope Tiki Socialite KS/MO Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 835	T tikijackalope Posted posted on Mon, Nov 8, 2004 1:11 PM I don't suppose anyone here has photos of the gift shop interior of Sinclair Dinoland at the 1964-65 World's Fair? I think I have almost everything sold in it, but would love to see how it was displayed. In my previous hobby of collecting dinosaur and prehistoric animal toys and memorabilia, the World's Fairs were a particular favorite of mine. Aside from the copious amount of stuff cranked out by Sinclair's Dinolands at 1933-34's Century of Progress and the 1964-65 World's Fair, there was also a more obscure exhibit in 1933-34 called Messmore and Damon's The World a Million Years Ago. I managed to correspond with Francis Messmore, son of the Messmore who worked on the exhibit, and purchased a few bits of memorabilia from it, including some hard rubber "dinosaur fighting dinosaur" dioramas that were on display there, and a perfectly awful Archeopteryx (first bird) made of paper mache over wire that was actually in the exhibit. I suppose they could get away with crude renditions of most of the animals because The World a Million Years Ago was an early ride-through ride, the animals were seen briefly and in dim lighting and people weren't running around with camcorders back then. [ Edited by: tikijackalope 2006-04-21 04:36 ]

I don't suppose anyone here has photos of the gift shop interior of Sinclair Dinoland at the 1964-65 World's Fair? I think I have almost everything sold in it, but would love to see how it was displayed.

In my previous hobby of collecting dinosaur and prehistoric animal toys and memorabilia, the World's Fairs were a particular favorite of mine. Aside from the copious amount of stuff cranked out by Sinclair's Dinolands at 1933-34's Century of Progress and the 1964-65 World's Fair, there was also a more obscure exhibit in 1933-34 called Messmore and Damon's The World a Million Years Ago.

I managed to correspond with Francis Messmore, son of the Messmore who worked on the exhibit, and purchased a few bits of memorabilia from it, including some hard rubber "dinosaur fighting dinosaur" dioramas that were on display there, and a perfectly awful Archeopteryx (first bird) made of paper mache over wire that was actually in the exhibit. I suppose they could get away with crude renditions of most of the animals because The World a Million Years Ago was an early ride-through ride, the animals were seen briefly and in dim lighting and people weren't running around with camcorders back then.

[ Edited by: tikijackalope 2006-04-21 04:36 ]

Post #124274 by tikijackalope on Mon, Nov 8, 2004 1:11 PM