In the entrance court of the Pavilion of Ireland, I paused before a huge map splashed at their counties of origin with the names of Irish families. A mother, father, and two small sons stood by in rapt attention as a voice boomed name after name in the inimitable accent of Ire-land. When the name McCarthy was called, the mother spoke: “Now you’ve heard it, we can move on.” Clearly, the McCarthy family had just passed by.

Robert Munn & Sara Cook of the Depthography group will be presenting a 3-D stereoscopic projection show of View Master images from World’s Fairs. The events that will be featured (in full color) include the following: 1939 New York, 1939 San Fransisco, 1958 Brussels, 1962 Seattle, 1964 New York, EXPO ’67, 1964 New York aftermath, ruins, etc. Over 400 Views will be featured!!! The event will take place 6PM Saturday, September 27th at the Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan. This is just the latest in a series of 3-D projected events by Munn and Cook at The Gershwin as part of Neke Carson and Michael Weiner’s weekly Cabaret events at the hotel. Other 3-D shows they have presented include WW1 original glass slides photographed in the trenches in France in 1914, famous American historical figures, 60′s tv shows, etc. Munn and Cook are artists who have been creating in various 3-D media of for over 25 years. The photography on these Viewmaster reels were shot on Kodachrome which retains beautiful color over the decades since these reels were produced. The Gershwin Hotel is located on 27th street between 5th Ave.and Madison Ave.

The admission fee is $10, which includes 3-D glasses. For further info, please go to http://www.depthography.com.

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change….

Another fact, at least of about a decade ago, the Fair Site *still* exists as a park, and this ASTONISHING, and still maintained-if-not-updated (WTC?) football field sized model of Manhattan is still an attraction. Each building is there, with lights, so they cycle the time of day as you walk around it. THEY DON’T EVEN SHOW IT IN THIS ARTICLE and I can’t find an image of it online. Ah, FOUND it:
http://jschumacher.typepad.com.....ama_7.html
It’s now part of the Queens Museum of Art.

What these days comes close to that is Google Maps, which has a tab for showing buildings in shadowed but architecturally detailed format.