"I was a boy of 15 years intrigued and excited about what was happening in the city. We were invited to visit us here in Turin friends and relatives still living in the province, to share with the big event: the centenary of 'Units' s Italy.
Then no one could believe, if you could not see with your own eyes, a kind of streamlined locomotive would be traveling at 90 mph on a single track, to join C.so Unità d'Italy in the Museum of 'car, 10 Km in about a minute and a half, between heaven and earth, on a vehicle which resemble a' ship, an 'attraction like that would leave everyone open-mouthed to the amazement and open arms towards the near future, a huge step forward for the 'future of public transport, short 100 pounds a ticket really well spent. For the same price you could choose a trip breathtaking hanging by a thread going on colored gondola that connects the area of \u200b\u200b'exposure with our green hill where admire a truly indescribable way I wanted to take her with me in the romantic rose if only 'I had already met her ... I do not remember what I saw then screened at Circarama but I know how anxiously I waited to get into that desired by the colossal structure Fiat thought but by the great Walt Disney. Message from Walt Disney:
"E 'with pleased that we have made available to the Italians - with the collaboration of FIAT - our most 'recent discovery in the field of cinema: the "Circarama.
With what 'we want to give our contribution to the events in Turin to celebrate the centennial' of Italy. The Circarama represented a unique attraction at Disneyland since the day of its inauguration in 1955. The film Circarama "Italy 61" in the splendid colors of Technicolor, from 'quick overview of some aspects of Italy today: majestic beauty of the landscape, the city', monuments, ancient glories and modern industrial work. I express my personal thanks to Fiat, and all those who worked with us for the realization of this show, which I hope shall undertake 'a lot of our friends italiani.Desidero also congratulate everyone for the Centenary celebrations, and express the hope that the events in Turin to be a great success. Burbank, April 1961. "The father of my legendary Mickey was giving a thought to my city's fantastic invention. In short, the atmosphere at the party was really not just for the memories of the past but also and perhaps even more, lows for the future.
Tomorrow will be 150 years to celebrate and that boy is now a father tells his son the wonders of 50 years ago. monorail not only have a miserable stump of 'cable car even less and the hill is no longer so green even the Circarama then no one is more reminiscent of the Palazzo del Lavoro, focal point of the 'Exposition of the time, wanted and thought by' Mr. Nervi, was reduced to a heap of rusty scrap metal, crumbling concrete and windows but now crumbling, surrounded by the 'occasion, from a giant Italian flag, I wonder: to enhance the three-color or to cover the flaws? Where are the futuristic novelty of the time? The future is sadly in the stories of our past. "
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