Futurama
The General Motors complex, actually four interconnected buildings, known collectively as "Highways and Horizons," was the largest presented by any individual participant in the fair. The designer was Norman Bel Geddes. There were numerous displays of new Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Cadillacs, and La Salles, as well as Frigidaires and a diesel-electric locomotive. A Previews of Progress science show was also offered, and there was an impressive lifesize multilevel futuristic "street intersection of 1960." But the hit General Motors and the fair as a whole was the futurama ride.
Six hundred chairs with individual loudspeakers moved visitors over a 36,000-square-foot scale model of the highway world of 1960.
Seven lane with permissible 100-mph speed, experimental homes, farms and urban developments, industrial plants, dams, bridges and all the intervening landscape.
Springing up around a planned traffic system, still looked on in 1939 as the guarantee of future happiness, the metropolis of 1960 was seen to be free of slums and blight, full of parks and civic centers. Energy would apparently be abundant, climate perfect.
In 1964, GM offered an analogous ride in almost the same location.
Wasn't the future wonderful? 
Rusty
