It had a capacity of 400 students and had facilities for industrial arts, shop, music halls, science labs, art room, indoor gymnasium, athletic fields, football stadium and a track.
Housed at New York's Hall of Science, the two-day event had a science-fair-meets-craft-fair vibe, a celebration of geekery for all ages and interests.
This weekend, September 17-18th, World Maker Faire returns to returns to the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) to bring us the best in DIY science and tech culture.
Academic and research facilities include the Cullen Performance Hall, the Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex, and Texas Center for Superconductivity, and various other science and liberal arts buildings.
The purpose of the opening ceremonis was to promote interest among civic-minded New Yorkers with money, in the Hall of Science as the nucleus of a proposed cluster of buildings that would constitute a science museum comparable to the one in Munich or the one in Chicago.
Seventeen years after the closing of New Jersey's oldest and largest natural-science collection at the Newark Museum, workers were toiling yesterday to complete its new Victoria Hall of Science, New Jersey's riposte to that other, better-known natural-history collection in Manhattan.
New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park; (718) 699-0005; www.nyhallsci.org.
The New York Hall of Science presented "stick pics".
READING, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadows-Corona Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
She lectured regularly in her "Hall of Science," a converted church on Broome Street.
Next month, work will begin on an expansion of the undulating Hall of Science from 1964.
