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The Communication & Business Zone (Zone 4)
1939 New York World's Fair

AT & T


Designers: Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith


The featured technology for AT & T – The Bell Systems – was free long distance calls. Participants were selected by a lottery and were able to call to anyone within the 16,000,000 telephone Bell System or the 4,200,000 phones in other phone company systems. The calls were not private. They were connected to special headsets and anyone who wanted to could listen in on this amazing technology.

A statue of a Pony Express Rider stood in the front of the AT & T pavilion as a reminder of how far communications had come is so very few years.


AT & T Building at the New York World's Fair
AT & T - photo MO6 - from the collection taken by John Ott courtesy of his grandson Michael Ott.

AT & T Building at the New York World's Fair
AT & T - Courtesy World's Fair Historical Society - wf-108


AT & T Building at the New York World's Fair
AT & T - photo 016

statue of a Pony Express Rider stood in the front of the AT & T pavilion
Photo DS-6 from the private collection of Dr. William R. Hanson.


A statue of Mercury, the 'Spirit of Electricity,' was the AT & T symbol.
A statue of Mercury, the "Spirit of Electricity," was the AT & T symbol for speedy communications and stood on top of the AT & T building.

AT & T
AT & T - Courtesy World's Fair
Historical Society - wf-110
AT & T
AT & T - photo 017

AT & T
AT & T - Courtesy World's Fair
Historical Society - wf-377r