On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:58:45 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:13:09 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
This is his work- the former American pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tr%C3%A9al.jpg

.. from the era when countries such as the US and the USSR spent vast
sums to showcase their technology and prowess at world fairs.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

The Soviet pavilion was a sick joke. They were extremely arrogant about
their superiority and blind to better stuff in other exhibits and local
stores. I had to wonder if the Soviet personnel were permitted to wander
around on their own or leave the island, lest they defect.

I learned to use chopsticks at the Japanese pavilion, saw the first small
Honda generator and had a truly horrible meal at the French restaurant.

jsw

Fond memories...I was 19 in '67, drank myself silly in Quebec,
vomitted in my sleeping bag and acquired a smell that stayed with me
for days. It helped when I was standing in line to get into the
exhibits but the French Canadian girls kept their distance.

I was 15 and with my family, but entirely by coincidence was in the
French Pavillion when Charles de Gaulle swept thru with his security
detail. This must have been shortly after his Free Quebec speech, and
we were apparently among the clueless minority. The crowd was divided,
with cheering separatists on one side and booing loyalists on the
other. It was obvious even to a 15 year old kid that the place was on
the verge of a riot.

--
Ned Simmons