The 1960s World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park featured an underground home — but was it ever removed, or could there be a subterranean mid-century home in Queens right now?
My fascination with underground homes began around the time the Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone moviehit theaters. It was 1999, a time when underground homes were a relic from a bygone era when Americans had feared and prepared for the worst. By the '90s that fear faded, and these underground homes were just kitschy time capsules.
Several people I asked who attended didn't even remember or know the exhibit had existed. In a May 1964 issue of LIFE magazine dedicated to the World's Fair, there's no mention of it, despite there being an entire spread dedicated to how things may look one day.The LIFE issue documenting the Fair doesn't even mention the home.One of the least popular exhibits of the time has become one of the most intriguing in more recent years, however.
Callaway added that he "definitely wanted to feature all kinds of dusty, dirty, period decor that would’ve been true to mid-60’s era design," therefore including "plush carpets, a circular fireplace, mod wall-hangings, a working television, and even a mineral oil 'rain lamp' that was identical to one I’d grown up with in my Grandma’s house.
So, is it still there? Callaway says, "To be honest? I almost don’t want to know. It’s much more fun to keep the mystery alive in my imagination!" Sorry Trey, we kept digging... So, it's off to the New York Public Library, which happens to hold all World's Fair records, though few are digitized. Thomas Lannon, assistant curator of NYPL's Manuscripts and Archives Division, told me:
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