GM's 'Tomorrow-Land' at the 1964 World's Fair

Cory Doctorow 10:44 pm Wed Jun 17, 2009

This 1965 NatGeo ad for GM's "Tomorrow-Land" exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair makes me go all dribbly for a time-machine: "You can look over GM's exciting 'idea' cars — Firebird IV with television, stereo, game table, refrigerator; GM-X with jet aircraft cockpit and controls–fascinating design and engineering innovations right out of
tomorrow.

You'll take a ride that is wrapped in wonders . . . through the metropolis of the future, over Antarctic wastes, into tropical jungles, along the ocean floor."

TOMORROW-LAND (Apr, 1965)

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