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 Yes, of course there were long line ups too!

But we soon heard of a secret way to bypass the crowd: eat at their restaurants and get a special "pass" to get right in afterwards through a side door!

Two of several pages of "stamps". Upper left hand corner is the notes on a computer on display in the Japanese Pavilion. 65K (not 65 meg!) memory for a mainframe! Note: iN 1967 PRC was not "open to the world."

What I bought for $25 Canadian dollars

In 1967 I went to Montreal to visit the International Exposition known as Expo 67.
When I came out of the main exhibition hall at the Iranian Pavillon I decided to visit
the gift shop--it was really just a small kiosk. There was this beautiful Iranian
girl (about my age at that time) working there. I looked into the glass cabinet
and saw what I thought was a stack of large size post cards. I recognized
immediately that the pictures on the cards were the illustrations of the Rubaiyat by Katchadourian. I also saw a sign that read 25 c-slash-which I thought was 25 cents,
the going rate for large postcards at that time.
  
  I told the girl I would like to "take one of each kind." She looked at me
with her lovely eyes and said "are you sure? They are 25 dollars each."
That , my friends ,was 25 Canadian dollars (almost at par with the US dollar at that time) in 1967 value-- which works out to between 150 to 200 dollar in today's money. There must have been 10 or 20 of those "cards" alltogether !  Was I in a jam ! Of course I would not admit that I "overlooked" the fact that the 25 c-slash was actually 25 $.  My mind went into overdrive,
or more likely, hyperdrive. So I quipped "Well, I was looking for a particular one."

  "Which one ?" She asked .  So I thought I would take a gamble that she
would not know and that I could get away scot free.  I happened to
have, at that time, memorized several of the stanzas by heart, so I said, "The
one I am looking for goes like this :

"Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears
Today of past regrets and future fears,
Tomorrow, why, tomorrow, I may be
Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years."

Stanza 21
Well folks, you guessed it. She found that one in no time at all. So I just
had to empty my wallet on that one.  She told me that these were hand paintings,
not prints (that accounts for the 25 dollars. I had thought they were postcards).
Her father was the painter ! No wonder she knew them so well.

 http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Expo+67

Expo 67

Expo 67 passport

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known, was the General Exhibition Category 1 World's Fair held inMontreal, Canada from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with over 50 million visitors and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair with 569,000 visitors on its third day.

Expo 67 was Canada's main celebration during its centennial year. The fair was originally intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution but, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in the fall of 1962.

The project was not originally overwhelmingly supported in Canada. It took the determination of Montreal's mayor, and a new team of managers, to guide it past political, physical and temporal hurdles. Defying even a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time.

After October 1967, Expo 67 lived on as an exhibition called Man and His World during the summer months, from 1968 until 1981. By that time, most of the buildings had fallen into disrepair and were dismantled. Today, the islands that hosted the world are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use, with only a few remaining structures from Expo 67 to show that the fair was held there. To this day, most Canadians from that time still regard it as one of the country's finest cultural achievements.^[1]
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