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Flying Flags
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LOCATION |
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Lighting the Flying Flags |
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- Entrances, Courts, Promenades,
and Overpass Bridges
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| CONSULTANTS |
DESIGNERS |
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- Hamel and Langer
- 652 First Avenue
- New York 16, New York
- OR9-9140
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- Clarke and Rapuano, Inc.
- 830 Third Avenue
- New York 22, New York
- PL4-1030
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- Hamel & Langer - Luminaires
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| CONTRACTORS |
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- Simes Co.-Fixture Manufacturer
- Hatzel & Buehler-Installation
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Source: Operations
Manual - New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation
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FEATURES
Flags representing the
American States, foreign nations and other governmental organizations
are brilliantly illuminated at night.
The flags are individually
lighted by specially designed twin-light fixtures, mounted on
each flagpole.
The flags are of uniform
size, 10 by 15 feet, raised on flagpoles 30 feet high, with the
light fixture mounted 9 feet 7 inches above ground level. A total
of 504 flags are displayed in the several areas mentioned above.
The twin-light fixture
has a 150-watt reflector lamp in each of two aluminum cylinders,
one on each side of the pole. The total lighting load is about
150 kilowatts.
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Gallery
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The lighting cylinders
on the poles of flags lining the bridge to the Transportation
Area can easily be seen in this shot. (Courtesy Bradd Schiffman)
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Source: ©
Wolfe Worldwide Films
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Closer detail of flag
poles and light canisters. (Courtesy
George Campbell)
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Source: George
Campbell © Copyright 2007 - All Rights Reserved
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NATIONS ON PARADE
THE STAND OF FOREIGN FLAGS gracing
the Court of Nations is the big attention-getter here. Each country
exhibiting at the Fair is represented. Beyond is a sizeable wedge
of the International Area with its intriguing sights and sounds.
In the center is the circular African pavilion and its needle-roofed
rondevals; at right is Pakistan and behind it, a Brass Rail "marshmallow"
snack bar. Seven distinctive pavilions in the background (reading
clockwise from the right) are Sudan (only half of it shows); Morocco,
Greece, Philippines, Lebanon, the United Arab Republic (Egypt)
and Jordan.
Source: News
Colorfoto by Edmund Peters and Richard Lewis, New York Sunday
News, September 6, 1964
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