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OUTLOOK April Page Travel Outlook Philadelphias complex has an eye on the future By VINCENT EGAN Travel Columnist Philadelphia is a city steeped in US history and reminders of the Revolutionary War However it also a city with an eye to the future Visitors from out side the S are likely to be in trigued by its futuristic sights and unique pleasures On May the Pennsylvania metropolis newest attraction will open its doors The Futures Centre and Omniverse Theatre Under construction for the past two years the new buildings form an addition to a science museum called the Franklin Institute built in but because of the Depres sion never completed to the full extent of its original concept The Futures Centre will offer imaginative ap plications of technology that exists toay not fantasies and dreams from the realm of science fiction Its purpose says director Joel Bloom is to get people to think of the future as a matter of choice not chance At the Choices Forum Exhibit each of the 150 seats will be fitted with an individual com keypad on which visitors can indicate their opinion on controver sial questions of technology and public policy after the various op tions and their consequences have been pointed out IMAX THEATRE We know that our competition is Disney and the Philadelphia Phillies says Bloom so we have built plenty of entertainment into the Futures Centre The most striking entertainment will be on the giant domed screen of the new Omniverse Theatre ad joining the Futures Centre Imax Systems Corp of Oakville Ont developed the technology of producing and pro jecting films 10 times larger than the conventional format of com films The first such specially built theatre is the one at Ontario Place Toronto The Imax screen is a hemispherical dome of per formated aluminum 23 metres across The sound system with speakers allows sound sources to be placed anywhere in the theatre When the Omniverse Theatre opens next month its premiere program will consist of two brand new productions Philadelphia An them a seven minute curtain raiser full of larger than life scenes of Philadelphia and Chester County and a featurelength pro duction To The Limit in which mountain climbers athletes ballet dancers and other excep tional individuals demonstrate the possibilities of human per BEN FRANKLIN On May the day after the open ing of the Futures Centre at the Franklin Institute the Philadelphia Museum of Art will inaugurate a special exhibition Images of Benjamin Franklin run ningtoSept 16 The Woteh ROBERT BATEMAN ORDER DEADLINE IS APRIL 1990 348 Street NEXT TO BELL GLASS IN THE KNOLCREST CENTRE Georgetown Banquet Meeting Facilities For 125 Full Service Bay Special Food Menus DJ or Entertainment On Request It will feature more than traits of Franklin a prolific inventor statesman and altogether the most famous citizen in the history of the City of Brotherly Love Several other special exhibitions based on Benjamin Franklins ac complishments will be staged in Philadelphia this year to mark the 200th anniversary of his death Details from the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau 1515 Market St Philadelphia Pa 19102 No celebrations however will recall one of Franklin few failures an expedition in the winter of to Lower Canada with three companions to try to persuade the French Canadian population to join the American Revolution The trip through ice and snow turned out to be harrow and fruitless according to one of Franklin s biographers He returned exhausted and tormented with boils The journey is considerably easier today Midway Airlines recently inaugurated frequent dai ly service to Philadelphia from Montreal and Toronto those interested in exploring Philadelphia s rich history a good place to begin is the Visitors Centre at Third and OFFICE MAGIC 136C Guelph St Georgetown A BUSINESS MAC REPAIRS ON Typewriters Photocopiers Calculators Cash Registers Free Estimates until April 3090 St Georgetown 8775307 CAPITAL GAINS Take advantage of 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