[ari-freedom]

yeah...I should know. This is my 'backyard':

[dr_lew]

I was there! I trod that floor. It amazes me that it's still there. Note it was used in the video, Don't Lets Start by THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS. That was 1986, so it's actually been longer since then than it had been since the World's Fair when the video was made. I must be immortal.

[dennisw]

I think that was a music pavilion after the World’s Fair. Led Zeppelin etc

[Dem Guard]

That’s a shame.

[Roccus]

yeah...I should know. This is my 'backyard':

It used to be mine as well, long before those structures were even dreamed of. I learned to ice skate in the NYC Building and how to swim at the Aquacade. Both of those sites were leftovers from the '39 Fair. My grandfather(who passed away in '50) used to take me mushroom hunting there. My mother learned how to drive on the winding roads in the "Fair Grounds" as it was known. (Can still hear my father yelling, "Clutch...clutch...clutch" as the car bucked and lugged) I learned how to fish there, an avocation that remains to this day.
Aside from sitting under the Unisphere, passing around a jug of wine, listening to the concerts in the NY State pavilion in the early 70's, I don't think I ever went back to the Fair Grounds for the rest of my time in Fun City.