Ruth Storm’s 1939 World’s Fair footage includes construction footage shot before the fair opened as well as a visit to Jones Beach, which also opened in 1939.
World’s Fair & Jones Beach, c. 1939
Ruth Storm
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- Date Range: 1937-1939
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- Description: Ruth Storm's 1939 World's Fair footage includes construction footage shot before the fair opened as well as a visit to Jones Beach, which also opened in 1939.
- Biographical/Historical Note: In 1939 Chennie and Mimi were in NYC.
One possibility is that the women shown in the Jones Beach sequence were the mothers who were still very much present in all these lives. Ruth lived with her mother, Elizabeth Storm, in Yonkers, Mabel with hers, Hannah Glover in New City, and before Chennie and Mimi began to live together, Chennie stayed first with her own mother in Jersey City, and then with Ruth and her mother.
The elevated road is the “Road of Tomorrow”, part of the Ford Exhibit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/the-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/100620/
The “buggies” were apparently called carts or push chairs and were provided by American Express https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-e4a1-d471-e040-e00a180654d7
Other World's Fair footage: http://www.fairfilm.org/
https://archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939
- Genres: Amateur Films
- Subjects: World's Fair 1939, Jones Beach 1939, Lesbian
- Places: Jones Beach; Queens, NY
- Creators: Ruth Huntington Storm (1888-1981)
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- Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission.
- Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights.
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- Preferred Citation: "Fair I," World's Fair & Jones Beach, Circa 1939, Reel 4, Ruth Storm Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project *LHMP).