Exactly
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All the time I spent in Illinois and Indiana and I never visited 
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Homes of Tomorrow, not Homes of the Future. But otherwise, my memory seems to be holding out OK!
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I miss the future we were supposed to have.
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That looks awesome. Why didn’t tomorrow end up more like that 
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Yeah, Tomorrow ain’t what it used to be.
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Aimee Mann, Fifty Years After the Fair:
Fifty years after the fair
I live in tomorrow town
Even on a wing and a prayer
The future never came around
It hurts to even think of those days
The damage we do
By the hopes that we raise
But how beautiful it was, Tomorrow
We’ll never have a day of sorrow
We got through the 30s, but our belts were tight
We conceived of a future with no hope in sight
We’ve got decades ahead of us to get it right
I swear -
Fifty years after the fair
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On a wi*g and a prayer
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Not that it really matters, because the sentiment is basically the same, but I’m pretty sure that the fair Aimee is referring to in that song is the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair.
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For sure, she even talks about “The perfect world across the river in Queens.” And namechecks the Trylon and Perisphere, which were in the Fair you cited.
I guess they’re all potent symbols of misty-eyed (retro)futurism, or forgotten optimism.
It’s a great song too!
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You know, I’m not sure, but I bet it didn’t. Good point.
The abrupt switch from color to black and white must not have been as jarring back in '33. Just like in another movie from that year, Wizard of Oz.
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Color was definitely still a bit of a novelty in 1933. Although by 1939, when Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind came out, it was much more mainstream for feature films.
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doh.
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