USA: 1982 World's Fair

Last Saturday I got a postcard from the USA.

It is an old postcard about the 1982 World's Fair. The 1982 World's Fair was held in Knoxville in Tennessee between May and October of that year. It is recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions as specialised exposition with energy as its theme and was visited by more the 11million people. Participating countries included Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the USA and West Germany. Also the European Economic Community made its first Expo appearance in Knoxville. The symbol of the exposition and now of Knoxville in general is the Sunsphere (shown on the left side of this card), which in a Simpsons episode of 1996 was prominently destroyed by Nelson. 

The card was sent with three older stamps. The most interesting of these is the one on the left, one of four stamps issued by the USA for the 1982 World's Fair (issued 29-04-1982). This one highlights Solar Energy. The other three stamps in the set are about Synthetic Fuels, the Breeder Reactor and Fossil Fuels. The stamp in the middle is from a series about Americana and shows an Iron "Beety" Lamp from the Plymouth Colony (issued 11-09-1979) with the words "America's Light sustained by Love of Liberty". The complete Americana series issued between 1975 and 1981 consisted of twenty stamps issued in sheets, twelve issued in coils and one produced especially for a booklet. The series celebrated basic American concepts that have animated the country's entire history. Furthermore this stamp is from the last of five thematic blocks in the series called America's Light. This block also includes the famous CIA Invert. The last stamp is about the Bering Land Bridge (issued 12-10-1991).

Thank You very much Eric!