A crowd gathers to view the fountains in front of the Unisphere globe at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The Unisphere was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke as the representation of the 1964 World's Fair ...

They loved the Unisphere, the gigantic latticework globe ... Thanks to the 1964 New York World's Fair, Belgian waffles have become common at any IHOP, or any boardwalk ice cream stand.

New York 1964 World's Fair, "Peace Through Understanding," New York State Pavilion (photographed in 2008) The theme of the '64 Fair was "Peace Through Understanding," and the Unisphere (below ...