April 13-17, 1975: A Visit to North Carolina
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This month, I am traveling to New York City again to do another EDP-Auditor class for a new client; we have lots of them in Manhattan, but then Manhattan has lots of everything.

It's a cloudy day, and this picture isn't very good, but we took off to the west and then circled around to the north to head out east over the lake shore. The main element you can see in the picture at left is Lake Shore Drive, and you can see its northern end where it curves west and becomes Hollywood Blvd. and intersects with Sheridan road.

The afternoon flight to New York City was very pleasant. I have begun flying American Airlines more often than United; when I first joined Cullinane, Ted Hollander usually booked us on American. Anyway, I like their service, and have begun collecting their playing cards now!

As we came in for our landing at LaGuardia, I took some pictures out the airplane window. Whenever I was looking more at the sun, my pictures turned out darkish blue; I will have to be more careful about that.

This is lower Manhattan, and its iconic buildings- the World Trade Center towers. Many of our clients are located here, as most banks and financial institutions are located here on Wall Street. At the lower right is the Brooklyn Bridge.

Now we are looking up the East River, and the Brooklyn Bridge is in the lower right. We are looking a Midtown Manhattan with the beginning of Central Park at right, and the Hudson River crossing the background.

We are looking due west at Lower Manhattan, and you have a better view of the Twin Towers. In the foreground is Brooklyn and the East River, with the Brooklyn Bridge (L) and Manhattan Bridge (R) crossing it. Beyond Manhattan is the Hudson River and then New Jersey.

Looking west across Brooklyn and the East River to Midtown, then the Hudson River and New Jersey. Prominent just right of center is the Empire State Building, and at right is the beginning of Central Park.

In the good picture at left, taken shortly before we landed, you can see the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The buildings you see below are from the latter event that featured 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants; the fair had exhibits from 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations. Built in Flushing Meadows Park, the immense fair covered 646 acres. The fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding", and that theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere, built on the foundation of the Perisphere from the 1939 NYC fair. The sphere, which is 140 feet high and 120 feet in diameter, is one of the borough's most iconic and enduring symbols. The Unisphere, which you can see in the center of the picture down below the aircraft, celebrated the beginning of the space age.

The fair ran for two six-month seasons, in the summers of 1964 and 1965. The fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented. More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and many cultural changes.

In many ways the fair symbolized a grand consumer show covering many products produced in America at the time for transportation, living, and consumer electronic needs in a way that would never be repeated at future world's fairs in North America. Many major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers, to chemical companies, to computers, to automobiles had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment. Corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems.

The view southeast over Long Island

Near LaGuardia, this is Shea Stadium, where the Mets and the Jets play. In the distance are the skyscrapers of Manhattan.

I spent the week in New York City, doing a software installation and training, but didn't have a lot of time to get out in the city with my camera since I was working all day. But I did get a couple of pictures.

(Picture at left) I am standing on Park Avenue at 49th Street and am looking south towards the Pan Am Building, a 69-story skyscraper atop Grand Central Station. Built in 1963, it dwarfs the New York Central Building just north of it.       (Picture at right) This view looks north from the same spot on Park Avenue. My client for the week, ITT, is in the tall building at the right of the picture, and I am staying in a hotel just a block off Times Square.

This was a good trip, although I wish I'd had more time to get out and walk around Manhattan. But then these trips are ostensibly for work, not for sightseeing.

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	April 13-17, 1975: A Visit to North Carolina
	March 7-9, 1975: A Weekend in Boston
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