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Source: © Wolfe Worldwide
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A stunning aerial view of the Ford Motor Company
Pavilion (courtesy of Bradd
Schiffman)
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SOURCE: Presented courtesy
Craig Konowal collection © 2007 Craig Konowal, All Rights
Reserved
Great view of the Rotunda with Ford automobiles
on the Magic Skyway (courtesy
of Craig Konowal)
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Source: World's Fair Publicity
Shot
The Three Titans:
Robert Moses, Walt Disney and Henry Ford II embark on a publicity
trip for The Magic Skyway
(courtesy of Craig Bavaro)
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Source: (top)
&COP TIME, Vol 83 No. 23, June 5, 1964
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Source: (bottom)
&COP Copyright 2001, Larry Hubble
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The New York World's Fair will
always be remembered as the place where Ford first introduced
the Mustang!
Mustangs were featured on The
Magic Skyway, where everyone wanted to ride one ...
... and rotating displays of
Mustangs outside the Wonder Rotunda gave the public something
to dream about -- here a shiny red Fastback for '65!
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(Fastback
photos courtesy of Larry Hubble)
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Source: (top
b&w) © Science Digest, Vol. 54 No. 6, December
1963
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Source: (bottom)
&COP National Geographic, Vol. 12 No. 4, April 1965
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Several elaborate models of The
Magic Skyway were constructed by WED Enterprises to perfect
the show elements and provide a guide to construction of the
actual sets.
Comparing this model setting
of the primeval world at the left with the actual setting below
it shows just how detailed the models were that Disney used to
create the ride.
Note the convertible passing
by the dioramas. Some of the dinosaurs were over two stories
high!
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Boarding a new Ford convertible at the Loading
Platform of The Magic Skyway (courtesy of Bradd Schiffman)
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Riding a new Ford Mustang on the Magic Skyway
(courtesy of Vesnat Guillaume)
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Source: © The Saturday
Evening Post, Issue No. 20, May 23, 1964
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Scenes from The Magic Skyway
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The King of all the reptiles,
Tyrannosaurus Rex, battles to the death with a Stegosaurus. So
close they might topple into your car!
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Scenes from The Magic Skyway
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Caveman discovers fire and can
warm his ... uhh ... home. (courtesy
of Bradd Schiffman)
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Source: © Wolfe Worldwide
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Scenes from The Magic Skyway
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Caveman uses tools to trap the
Woolly Mammoth (courtesy
of Bradd Schiffman)
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Source: Official Souvenir
Book, New York World's Fair 1964/1965, © Time-Life Books,
Publisher
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Scenes from The Magic Skyway
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Introducing The Man of the Hour!
The invention of the round wheel. (courtesy of Bradd Schiffman)
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Scenes from The Magic Skyway
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Caveman's new-found freedom means
he's no longer tied to his cave. (courtesy
of Bradd Schiffman)
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Riders of the Magic
Skyway at Ford pavilion
pass such dramatic scenes as these Walt Disney-created cavemen
hunters trying to slaugher for food a mammoth they've trapped.
Source: News
Colorfoto by Edmund Peters and Richard Lewis, New York Sunday
News, May 23, 1965
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