New York World's Fair Parking Lot Ticket Map, 1939

A map on a parking lot ticket to help customers find their vehicle at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

The 1939–1940 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. That’s a lot of cars to park! It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow".

Bonus Artifact: Here is a parking permit from the 1939 New York World’s Fair also owned by The Parking Podcast.

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