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“The lively spirit of the Latin American market brightens the two IBM Pavilions at HemisFair ‘68 - the Durango Pavilion and the Lakeside Pavilion - where visitors can experience for themselves the exciting world of computers.” So reads the caption on the back of this vintage souvenir postcard from HemisFair '68 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
The oversized postcard is featured at the top, which features two images, models of the Durango Pavilion and the Lakeside Pavilion with PeopleMover. I have included separate scans of the images, sharpened, so you can get a close-up view. Also featured is the typewritten message on the back of the postcard: “Dear Jeanette: Here we are over at the HemisFair and getting our feet wet it seems - just poured as we left Houston for fifty miles and then again at Segin. Got your letter before we left and glad that all is going well for you. Hope that you get good marks in the exams. We will be up to Jacksonville to get you on Sunday, as we had planned so have your things packed and ready. If there is room we will be glad to have some one else ride with us of course. Much love, Dad and Mother”. (Postcard from private collection) In April, 1964, O'Neil Ford and Allison Peery were named as the coordinating and site planning architects; however, on August 9, 1966 an agreement is reached on the preservation of 20 historic homes on the fair site which led in 1967 to Ford being eased out as supervising architect for Hemisfair largely because of his adamance about the preservation of 130 historic buildings in the fair district, which he proposed incorporating into the master plan. For more on the life and career of O’Neill Ford, visit this website: http://larryspeck.com/1984/07/01/oneil-ford/
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AuthorDawn Torres-Reyes: writer of published articles, blog entries, and poetry. Past author of the national blog "Pieces of the Past". To submit a question or subject for the blog, email [email protected] Categories
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