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Farewell to the Fair

Introduction Remembering the Final Days The Fair on Sale A Source of Regret "An Almost Fond Farewell" On Shaky Ground The End of the Fair Consigned to Oblivion "All's Bleak Now Where Fair Glittered" The Park Restored Epilogue

After years of planning and construction and two seasons of operation, the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair came to a close on October 17th, 1965. The world had beaten a path to its door and now it was time to return the land it had occupied to the natives. Learn of the Fair's final days, its demoliton and the post-Fair restoration of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.