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Norman Bel Geddes, "Futurama" The General Motors Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Image source: Bush, The Streamlined Decade
While the 1933 Chicago Exhibit had been predicated on the idea of the present as the culmination of a "Century of Progress", the New York Fair, "Building the World of Tomorrow", looked towards the distant future of 1960. Note the teardrop cars speeding through the city thoroughfares in Bel Geddes' scale model.
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