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INTERNATIONAL, PROVINCIAL
& STATE PAVILIONS

California

Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Cuba

Malaysia

Oregon

Republic of Korea

Washington State

USA
 

CORPORATE PAVILIONS & THEME EXHIBITS

BCTV (British Columbia Television)

General Motors (Spirit Lodge)

Great Hall of Ramses II

Kodak Pacific Bowl

Xerox International Theatre
 

The entrance to the California Pavilion captured the theme "California: Creating the Future" through a high-tech neon sculpture.

Inside, four major exhibits displayed California's most noteworthy fields of research and development.

The first exhibit illustrated how geo-thermal energy is harnessed and converted into electricity.

The second focused on space, science and computer technology.  A highlight of the second exhibit was a space telescope that was scheduled to be launched during Expo 86.  An equally impressive display was the 10,000 pound Apollo XIV capsule.

Visitors could design a bicycle on a computer with help from a software program made by the newly emerging companies of the Silicon Valley.  The 32-bit chip was introduced in 1986 as a "muscle microprocessor" that was sure to revolutionalize home computing, making computer to computer communication (now known as the internet) available to home computers through telephone lines.

The third and fourth exhibits focused on film technology and automotive design, culminating in a final exhibit that displayed the exciting and sometimes surprising applications of the four areas of research. 

Hollywood was well represented in the communications field through film presentations and displays which showed how science and the film industry were becoming entwined.  Visitors were invited to learn how computers were used to create realistic special effects that would otherwise be too expensive or dangerous to produce.