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St. Louis: The 1904 World’s Fair (Images of America: Missouri)

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For seven months in 1904, St. Louis used to be the greatest city on this planet. Millions flocked to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to behold the inventions of the early 20th century. Many saw electric lights, automobiles, aircraft, and moving pictures for the first time. At a time when few traveled more than a couple miles from home, visitors encountered the people and cultures of faraway lands. It used to be an educational experience, a “university of mankind.” The Pike offered amusement rides, wild animal displays, and fanciful trips during the Hereafter and Creation exhibits. Fairgoers visited the Alps, the North Pole, Russia, and Paris and witnessed famous battles. Everyone wanted to ride the great Statement Wheel. There were hootchy-kootchy dancers and wonderful new foods, such as the ice-cream cone. Nevertheless it used to be all temporary, a dream city made to last just a few months. Apart from these days’s St. Louis Art Museum, the grand palaces are gone. St. Louis: The 1904 World’s Fair tells the story of the greatest Victorian-era world’s fair for the reason that lights of the fair faded over a century ago, at the same time as also examining the fair’s legacies and legends.

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