The operations center of the General motors Parade of Progress is housed in one of the 12 specially designed Futurliners. Opening the collapsible walls of the air conditioned office just minutes following arrival at the Austin coliseum Grounds are, left to right: Jim Coombs, Dick Cahill and Jack Reynolds.

John E. Ryan, director of the Parade of Progress, holds open the driver's access door on a Futurliner. The driver, Harry Hardenbrook, was the son of George Hardenbrook a Buick foreman who lived in Flushing.