Expo '67 Press Kit Photos

Peter: 13th Jan 2009 - 04:39 GMT

WOW... ok, this is awesome. i have a feeling im going to be staying up later than i intended to tonight reading about all of this on wiki...

Jamie: 13th Jan 2009 - 09:19 GMT

This is awesome. I'm enjoying the unusual mix of content you're sharing. I particularly like the British Pavillion's unfinished tower. What an eerily accruate methaphor for the decades that were to follow.

CartLegger: 14th Jan 2009 - 00:50 GMT

It is incredible how much printing technology seems to have longed behind construction technology. i love these index cards, imagining them kept in deep card file drawers.

great post!

Franny Wentzel: 14th Jan 2009 - 00:59 GMT

I hate to disillusion you, but the captions came from a typewritten two-page press release included with the photographs - note the staple still attached to page one.

EvilGentleman: 13th Feb 2009 - 17:00 GMT

Built two years before my birth in 1969, many of the Expo 67 buildings still stood for decades afterwards. I recall it was called Man and His World when I saw the Expo site as a child in the 1970's.

I was on that site again last year, for the Heavy MTL festival.

All that remains now is the geodesic dome (minus its coating, which burnt off in a fire) and the Quebec and French pavillions, which have since been converted into the Montreal Casino.

The Bigger E: 7th Sep 2009 - 12:35 GMT

Thanks for the great memories. My parents and I had season passes to Expo in 1967 -- I was pretty young.

I used to love the greasy pizza slices that you could get at La Ronde...yummy!