The CBC has an article about the surviving works of art and architecture from Expo 67, which opened 27 April 1967.
Expo 67 may have opened a half century ago today, but it's 2017 that seems kind of old by comparison.
The art and architectural legacy of Montreal's 1967 International and Universal Exhibition — few, but impressive — litter Canada's landscape like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
Found as far away as Newfoundland, Expo 67's remnants continue to exude some of the weird, wondrous magic of that Summer of Love in Montreal, when anything and everything seemed possible
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:45AM (2 children)
This youtube video shows what Expo 67 looked like.
https://youtu.be/r6qMHa_0FUI [youtu.be]
Takeaways..seems things were richer than versus now in North America...
oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found (High Fructose Corn Syrup hadn't been invented yet?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:49PM
oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found
It's hard to be fat when you're a starving artist, eh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:58PM
Maple syrup. Cures what ails you.