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Firestone Tire and Rubber
View the complete 52-page Firestone Tire & Rubber brochure that was handed out at the pavilion duing the Fair.Courtesy of Bob Catania

An actual life-size farm, complete with farm hands and animals, was one of two main attractions at the Firestone Rubber exhibit. It demonstrated how American farmers had benefited from air-filled or pneumatic tires on virtually every piece of wheeled farm equipment.

The second attraction was a working tire manufacturing plant. Everything from harvesting rubber, the processes used, and the final molding of the tire was demonstrated. Visitors were able to purchase tires if they so desired.

Firestone Tire and Rubber
Firestone - Photo 073

Firestone Tire and Rubber
Firestone Huts - (1940) - Courtesy of the World's Fair Historical Society - wf-011r
Firestone Tire and Rubber at night
Firestone at night From the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)

Firestone Tire and Rubber
Firestone - Courtesy of the World's Fair
Historical Society - wf-008r

Firestone Tire and Rubber
Firestone - Courtesy of the World's Fair
Historical Society - wf-010r
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