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New Model City Show Planned for New York World's Fair
The 1939 fair will feature Democracity a two mile high magic carpet ride show by Henry Dreyfuss in the Perisphere. The model city of tomorrow will accommodate one million visitors with suburban homes satellite factories and green belts and use new sky projection lighting. Visitors enter on two levels via giant moving stairways and two revolving platforms.
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