Facts Official name: New York World´s Fair 1939-1940 Occasion: 150. Anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration Motto: Building the World of tomorrow Category: General Exhibition 2. Category Landmark: Trylon and Perisphere Location: Flushing Meadows Park, Queens Duration: 30 April – 31 October 1939 and 11 May – 27 October 1940 (351 days) Opening: 30 April 1939, attended by President Roosevelt Area: 500 hectare President of the Fair: Grover Loysius Whalen Head of New York Parks Commission: Robert Moses Architect of the Theme Center: Wallace K. Harrison and Jacques André Fouilhoux Exhibitors: 1.500 Employees: 50.000 Visitors: close to 45 million (1939: 25.8 million, 1940: 19.14 million) Organisation: private Fair Corporation Entrance fee: 75 cents, season ticket 15 dollars Expenditure: 125 million dollars Deficit: 18 million dollars Participants: 54 nations in 22 nation pavilions, 26 pavilions of American Federal States, numerous company pavilions – all together 300 buildings Classification: none Jury: none