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Vander-Ende Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood, www.onderdonkhouse.org. • Saturday, Apr. 5, Domestic Life, 2 p.m.; Balancing Act, 4:30 p.m.; Paradise: Love, 7 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image presents Panorama Europe, a series of contemporary films and shorts. Domestic Life is a satire about women leading lives of quiet desperation in the Parisian suburbs. Balancing Act is about an Italian husband whose wife kicks him out after she discovers an affair. Paradise: Love depicts a middleaged Austrian divorcée who holidays in Kenya, where sex with buff African beach boys is plentiful—and ultimately ruinous. $12. MMI, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Apr. 5, Wake Up For Spring, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This daylong retreat includes instruction in meditation, stretching and yoga, walking meditation and silent practice. $45, to register, email mindfulastoria@gmail.com. The Presbyterian Church of Astoria, 23- 35 Broadway, Suite 3, LIC. • Sunday, Apr. 6, The Manhattan Transfer. 3 p.m. These platinum selling, world-wide chart toppers made music history in 1981 by becoming the first group to win Grammys simultaneously in the jazz and pop categories. $40. Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, www.visitqpac.org. • Sunday, Apr. 6, Dream Team 1935, noon; Rosie, 2:30 p.m.; Life Feels Good, 5 p.m.; Seduce Me, 7:30 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image presents Panorama Europe, a series of contemporary features and shorts. Presented by the Consulate of Latvia in New York, Dream Team 1935 is based on the true story of the scrappy Latvian basketball team. Presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland, Rosie is about a sadsack, 40-something gay novelist who moves back to his rural Swiss hometown to care for his ailing, alcoholic mother. Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Life Feels Good chronicles Mateusz who was born with cerebral palsy and diagnosed at a young age as lacking the ability to communicate. Presented by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Film Centre, Seduce Me is about Luka, 19, who prepares to leave his group home for the first time, starting with a visit to his father’s grave. $12. MMI, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, www.movingimage.us. • Monday, Apr. 7, Lecture and Exhibit: The 1964-65 World’s Fair, 7 p.m. Rosalie Kenny discusses the fair, which is best remembered as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology, including the launch of the Ford Mustang. Event also kicks off exhibit of at least 30 rare photographs from 1939 and 1964 fairs which runs through June 30. Suggested donation: $5. Greater Astoria Historical Society, Quinn Building, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor, LIC, www.astorialic.org. • Wednesday, Apr. 9. Forested, 8 p.m. (nightly through Saturday, Apr. 12). Dancer Amanda Loulaki flirts with fragmented time, imagery, empty space, non-linear narrative and the extremities of a movement’s physicality. The work contains a series of vignettes incorporating autobiographical elements while presenting the body as a container of history, and the space as a container of the body. $15. The Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Ave., LIC, www.chocolatefactorytheater.org. “It’s In Queens” column is produced by the Queens Tourism Council with the hope that readers will enjoy the borough’s attractions. TOURISM -CONTINUED FROM PG. 22- 59 • TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 NYS Honors Cold War Vets with a DD 214, indicating an honorable discharge or a discharge in honorable circumstances from active duty, an NGB Form 22, indicating either an honorable discharge or a discharge in honorable circumstances from the Army or Air National Guard, or a WD AGO Form 53-55 issued by the War Department prior to the creation of the Department of Defense. For more information on how to apply for the New York State Cold War Certificate, veterans can contact Addabbo at 1-718-497-1630 or go to the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs awards website, http://dmna.ny.gov/awards/ or call 1-518-591-5296. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 24- Investigator Festa Dies At 64 he always did so with true professionalism and a diplomatic demeanor that earned him the respect of his peers and subordinates,” Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a statement. “We owe Larry a debt of gratitude for his years of service to this office and to the people of Queens County. Larry was a true and trusted friend and colleague. He will be sorely missed.” Festa was the beloved husband of Patricia, loving father of Kristen and Allison, devoted son of Amy and the late John V. and cherished brother of Dr. Robert S. Festa. A wake for Festa was held on Monday, Mar. 31, at Fairchild Sons Funeral Home in Garden City, L.I. A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Tuesday, Apr. 1, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, West Hempstead, L.I., followed by interment at Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, L.I. Messages of condolence and sympathy may be sent to Family of Chief Larry Festa, c/o Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, 125-01 Queens Blvd., Third Floor, Kew Gardens, NY 11415-1568. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 35- Queens Events To Help Residents Relive Memories Of Two World’s Fairs is part of the borough president’s campaign to have the New York State Pavilion restored to some semblance of its former glory. A larger celebration will take place on Sunday, May 18, when Flushing Meadows Park plays host to the World’s Fair Anniversary Festival. From 1 to 4 p.m., all are invited to tour exhibits of World’s Fair memorabilia and enjoy an assortment of food, rides and live entertainment. These events and others are variously sponsored by the Queens Borough President’s office, New York Community Bank, the city Parks Department, NYC and Company, the Queens Tourism Council, the Queens Economic Development Corporation and other members of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, which include the Flushing Meadows Park Conservancy, Queens Theatre in the Park, the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the New York Mets, the Noguchi Museum, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the Queens Historical Society, Queens College and the United States Tennis Association. Full details about other World’s Fair anniversary events can be found online at www.itsinqueens.com/worldsfair. The fair that shaped Queens Developed during the latter part of the Great Depression, the 1939-40 World’s Fair made an indelible mark on Queens in many physical ways. Master builder Robert Moses, then the city’s parks commissioner, had the fairgrounds developed on a former ash dump, with a long-term plan to transform it into Flushing Meadows Park with revenue generated from the exposition. Subway lines were altered and/or expanded specifically to bring millions of visitors to and from the fair each day. A World’s Fair station (now known as Mets-Willets Point) was built on the elevated 7 line above Roosevelt Avenue. A World’s Fair IND line was also built from Forest Hills to the fairgrounds along what is now the Van Wyck Expressway; it was later demolished. The fair finally opened on Apr. 30, 1939, with an opening attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His address was televised by NBC to about 200 television sets in the New York City area, making it the first scheduled televised event in the nation’s history. The television—which would transform global communications in the decades ahead—was one part of the “world of tomorrow” which visitors got a chance to see at the 1939-40 fair. Spectators viewed exhibits of items now commonplace in modern society, including nylon, fluorescent lamps, color photography and air conditioning units. At the heart of the fairgrounds stood the event’s two titanic symbols: the Trylon, a 610’-tall white spire; and the Perisphere, a giant white sphere within which housed “Democracity,” a giant diorama offering visitors a glimpse of a utopian “city of tomorrow.” By the time it closed in October 1940, more than 44 million visitors had gone through the fair’s turnstiles—but the world itself had fallen into global conflict. One stark reminder of that was at the fair itself, in which the pavilions of Poland and Czechoslovakia were closed in 1940 after both nations were invaded by Nazi Germany, which did not participate due to what it claimed were financial reasons. The United States entered World War II in December 1941, and the Trylon and Perisphere were demolished so its materials could be used for the war effort. Meanwhile, the fairgrounds became Flushing Meadows Park, but the resources were not available for its full development. The fair of the future Nearly 20 years after World War II ended, the 1964-65 World’s Fair opened with the theme “Peace Through Understanding.” Much like the 1939-40 fair, the second edition offered millions of visitors a glimpse into a vibrant and technologicallyadvanced future. Moses, again, hoped that revenue from the second World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows would be enough to complete the park he had started there. Revenue fell short of projections, but the fair still drew more than 51 million visitors in its two seasons and became particularly beloved by Baby Boomers. Corporate giants played a heavy role in the 1964-65 fair, displaying modern marvels at their pavilions, many of which showcased the use of computers to visitors. The iPhone and high speed Internet were decades from being conceived, but The Bell System had on display at the fair a videophone and a computer modem. One of the fair’s main attractions was “Pepsi Presents Disney’s It’s a Small World,” the famous animatronic ride with the very catchy tune created by Walt Disney. After the fair concluded, Disney moved the attraction to Florida, where it continues to thrill millions of Walt Disney World visitors every year. After the fair concluded in October 1965, the fairgrounds reverted back to Flushing Meadows Park—but a number of its features remain. Along with the Unisphere and the New York State Pavilion, other remnants include the New York Hall of Science and its adjacent Space Park and the former Port Authority pavilion and heliport (now Terrace on the Park restaurant). The Queens Museum of Art, formerly the New York City Pavilion, is the only remaining structure which was part of both world’s fairs. Following World War II, the pavilion was used as the temporary headquarters of the United Nations General Assembly, hosting it from 1946 through 1951. Two relics of the 1939-40 and 1964-65 fairs lie below Flushing Meadows Park—and won’t be visible for another few thousand years. Time capsules were interred by the Westinghouse company at two locations during each of the fairs; both are not to be opened until 6939, approximately 5000 years after the opening of the 1939-40 fair. The 1939-40 time capsule includes papers from Albert Einstein, copies of Life magazine, a safety razor, a kewpie doll, plant seeds and microfilm containing millions of pages of text. Contents of the 1964- 65 capsule include an electric toothbrush, a 50-star American flag, an audio record and a World’s Fair guidebook. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 21- Selling A Home Or Car? 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