"Finally we got inside. My stomage tightened and my heart beat as we prepared for the exhibit. We ran and took seats, each of us in a chair with high sides and loudspeakers build into them, they faced the same direction and were in a track. The lights went down. Music played and the chairs lurched and began to move sideways. In front of us a whole world lit up, as if we were flying over it, the most fantastic sight I had ever seen, an entire city of the future, with scyscrapers and fourteen-lane highways, real little cars moving on them at different speeds, the center lanes for the higher speeds, the lanes on the edge for the lower."

Extract from the worth reading book: "World's Fair" by E. L. Doctorow, born 1931 in New York, in which he describes a childhood and a visit at the world's fair in 1939.

The quotation of E. L. Doctorow describes the impression of the drive in moving seats upon a very detailed, wide miniature landscape with moving traffic, modernistic skyscrapers in the green and fourteen-lane highways.

The "Futurama" was part of the exhibition of General Motors with the title "Highways and Horizons". The exhibition cotained beside the Futurama a two-stor street-crossing, where the actuel range of vehicles of General Motors was presented.

This panorama by General Motors should describe the world of 1960 and had done it in some parts. It is amusing, that the part of being least right was specially the aspect of technical and visual development of the automobil.

[1939 | 6 a] Entrance General Motors pavilion, unknown photographer NY1
[1939 | 6 b] Entrance "Highways and Horizons", unknown photographer NY1
[1939 | 6 c] Entrance "Highways and Horizons", unknown photographer NY1
[1939 | 6 d] Original booklet "Futurama", General Motors 1939, titlepage
[1939 | 6 e] Original booklet "Futurama", General Motors 1939, picture page no. 6
[1939 | 6 f] Original button "I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE", General Motors 1939