The Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Wonder Bread Bakery, and Sheffield Farms buildings stand on part of the grounds of the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

The Life Savers Candy Parachute Jump. Adults paid 40 cents a trip; children paid 25 cents. After the fair, the ride was moved to Coney Island, where it operated on and off until the 1960s. Now closed, the supporting structure still stands there today.

People visit the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Inside the Perisphere was a diorama of a futuristic utopian city named Democracity. After viewing, visitors would leave by descending a long spiral walkway named the Helicline.

A row of statues leads to the Perisphere and Trylon.

A large crowd in front of the General Motors Pavilion.

Wonder Bread Bakery displays a wheat field exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The “scarecrow of tomorrow,” Penelope Shoo, is wearing an outfit designed by Hattie Carnegie. The wheat field was billed as “the first planted in New York City since 1875.”

Visitors watch a working oil derrick at the petroleum exhibit.

General Motors displays a transparent car in its pavilion. The four-door Pontiac Deluxe Six is clad in Plexiglas.

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