Opening Day
On May 1, 1982, the 1982 World's Fair opened with the theme "Energy Turns the World". Television commercials broadcast prior to the fair used the marketing tagline "You've Got To Be There". The opening ceremony was broadcast on local and regional TV, with President Ronald Reagan arriving to open the fair. TV personality Dinah Shore was the master of ceremonies, and artists such as Porter Wagoner and Ricky Skaggs performed as the gates opened. A six-month pass to the fair sold for $100.
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Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or day:
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—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”
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