The Austrian Pavilion from the 1964 World's Fair may have escaped the decay its sister buildings are suffering in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, but the Daily News is reporting the alpine spruce building was damaged by a fire on January 24th. Following the World's Fair it was brought upstate and became a ski lodge, but owner Jack Van Scoter told the paper they fear they "would never be able to rebuild in the same form as the Austrian Pavilion."
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Another 1964 World's Fair Structure Bites The Dust (In A Fire!)
1964-65 World's Fair Revisited
Modern Mechanix has an old National Geographic from 1965 with a huge spread on the World's Fair in New York. Step back to the atomic era and see the now-endangered Tent of Tomorrow in its glory days. Not many of these structures and rides exist today, at least not in New York; the giant tire is alive and well in Detroit, and of course, the Walt Disney-created ride, "It's a Small World" is still going -- check out some video of it here.
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