{"id":686,"date":"2007-05-09T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T01:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/05\/09\/great-worlds-fair-photography-tour\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T05:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:44:17","slug":"great-worlds-fair-photography-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/great-worlds-fair-photography-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"great worlds fair photography tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

this is a pretty cool project.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/jadedoskowworldfair.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

a friend of a friend left on a plane today for Barcelona, where they’ll start to photograph sites of past World Fairs around the world.<\/p>\n

I mentioned they best be sure to swing by my hometown, St. Louis – the host of the 1904 World’s Fair<\/a>. That fair took place during a time of high prosperity in St. Louis, when it was the fourth largest US city, and also host to the first US-held Olympic games<\/a> (due to the hype of the fair, it actually stole<\/em> this claim from Chicago). Notable structures at the 1904 expo included the Observation Wheel, a ferris wheel, which has an almost mythical presence among people (St. Louisans that is) when they talk about the expo.<\/p>\n

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\"fwheel\"<\/p>\n

Best of luck to Jade on their photography tour. Looking at the Wikipedia list of ‘registered expositions’, I realize I’ve only visited or lived in seven cities that have held world fairs (London, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle – however this year I hope to add Budapest and Brussels to that list!) whereas the artist has a good 30+ cities to get to! (that is, unless they’re following this list<\/a> – and I hope they’re not because that list is comprehensive<\/strong><\/em>!)<\/p>\n

Anybody else interested in the St. Louis fair site, I recommend you visit the Missouri Historical Museum<\/a> on Lindell on the northern edge of Forest Park. they also have a great resource online about the fair – click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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