Road of Tomorrow Frame Color:White next to the site of

next to the site of the World Trade Center

when Times staff photographer Arthur Brower took this picture

The list of writers who have attempted to capture the city's many beguiling contradictions is long and varied: Raymond Chandler

whose electronic news ticker or "zipper" provided the actual day's news

Road of Tomorrow Frame Color:White next to the site ofRCA introduced television at the 1939 World's Fair. General Motors built its Futurama. But Ford's "Road of Tomorrow," shown here at the Ford Pavilion in Flushing Meadows, featured a cork and rubber surface and ramps that were stacked like platters of spinning records. Here, drivers would take fair visitors on an endless figure eight track to "symbolize the advances America may expect in transportation." The Times wrote that the model highway would