The sidewalk signs go from the 1940-50s to the 70s. Not sure what happened to the 60s. For various reasons, I can't remember much about that decade either!!! This was, however, my favorite era of the exhibit. I'm a city gal and much of the scenery in this section was cityscapes.
Many of the structures throughout the total experience are based on photos of actual structures. Here is the Seattle, Washington tower (where we lunched many years ago).
Bridge entrance to downtown.
Night time with lots of glowing high-rises.
A variety of intimate scenarios behind windows. All the balconies of the 13-story building behind the stores had patio furniture.That's like over 90 balconies!!!
There was even a dog park, one cat included (yellow under the tree).
Ground-level commuter train entrances and an underground entrance to the subway (physically shown below "street" level) were showcased.
After that huge urban display, there were a few more rural scenes. Here's a hot air balloon that rose up and down.
Throughout there were bits of trivia. Here is a front page newspaper article (on right) announcing the opening of the Junction in the Cincinnati Equirer.
Back in the lobby area was a fantastic gift and hobby store filled with railroading paraphernalia.
This set is all about landscape molds used for set decor.
It would take forever to spy out every fascinating detail of this amazing amusement. Guess that means another trip in the future, but that was all the "entertainment" we could handle for one day, so off to downtown Cincinnati for the evening.
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