#1893 chicago world fair

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Doing research on the 1893 Chicago World Fair and goddanm what didn't happen at this fair? It had the first ferris wheel that was apart of what later inspired the first major amusement park, George Washington Carver showed some art there and he was pretty young at the time, a song was written for belly dancers performing there that would end up beings sampled in probably hundreds of songs including Take It Off by Kesha??? All sorts of shit was introduced there like Juicy Fruit gum, Shredded Wheat and Cracker Jacks to name a few, the fucking mayor died (didn't just die, GOT SHOT), it lasted for almost a year for reasons I can't fathom, and the other versions of this fair where mostly failures. what was in that Chicago air in 1893??

[twilight-zoned-out]

"Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured."

Although Dracula was published in 1897, some think that it takes place in 1893 because of the way the days and dates used line up. If that's the case, Jonathan Harker's epilogue, seven years later, would have been added around 1900. A new era bubbling with new change and new conventions. The story ends with Jonathan looking ahead to a new century filled with the unknown and being able to look on the past, despite its darkness, "without despair."

[lifewithaview]

Abigail Spencer and Goran Visnjic in Timeless (2016)The World's Columbian Exposition

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Wyatt and Rufus are desperate to rescue Lucy, whom Flynn kidnapped to attend the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in order to kill Rutherford seniors Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and J. P. Morgan. Following them, Wyatt and Rufus get trapped with architect Sophia Hayden and a guest named George Henry in the World's Fair Hotel, run by sadistic serial killer H. H. Holmes as a trap. At the fair, Lucy and Flynn force Harry Houdini to break into Edison's office to plant a bomb, but Houdini outsmarts Flynn, who can barely escape. Houdini and Lucy save Wyatt and Rufus at the hotel, where Lucy realizes that "George" is Holmes just as she is captured, but Wyatt saves her by killing Holmes. The trio returns to the present. Rufus records a threat to Rittenhouse and hands it to Mason. Wyatt gets a phone call from Flynn, revealing Jessica's killer and suggesting Wyatt tries erasing his existence.

*Holmes' quote, "I was born with the devil in me," is an actual quote attributed to the real H. H. Holmes when he confessed to his murders.

[kaesaaurelia]

Love to be scrolling the Chicago tag and getting posts about that bonkers conspiracy theory that all classical and neoclassical architecture is what remains of an ancient civilization of giants and the reason most of the stuff built for the 1893 World's Fair is no longer standing is because (((they))) don't want you to know history and not because that shit was always temporary, was slated for demolition, and then burned down by accident before that.

"Oh but it's sooo detailed and pretty! How could it be temporary?" Tell me you never worked in tech theater without telling me. Tell me you know jack shit about the long history of making pretty scenery that's not meant to last long for all kinds of fucking reasons.

And it's not like there's detailed documentation of what was and was not standing in Chicago in 1871 that doesn't fucking include any of these supposedly ancient structures - oh, wait, there fucking is! There's also janky 19th century attempts at BEFORE AND AFTER 3D IMAGES of that shit, believe it or not. Because oh yeah, there was a big goddamn fire then too, because fire was a huge problem in 19th century cities generally.

(Love to see San Francisco also included in this "oh suuure there was a fire" bs. No fucking shit, their flag has a goddamn phoenix on it, there sure fucking was a fire.)

[starlitflowers-secretgarden]

I’m playing through HYSC right now, and I just finished the chapter where they all go to the world’s fair. And as cheesy as it was to read them all explain the historical context to each, so we the modern audience can understand it, it was actually one of my favorite parts of the story so far. Cause I’m thinking about them going to the World’s Fair in context, and this is where a lot of things were debuted for the first time. This is a big showcase of Progress™ in the western world. And like imagine. It’s the first time you’ve ever experienced an ice cream float. PBR didn’t exist before, and now it does and it’s the best beer you’ve ever had for some reason. The whole goddamn fair is powered by electricity, and how is that even possible to generate so much electricity! There’s a Ferris Wheel what the fuck is that I don’t know but it’s huge!! Idk something about Edith’s, Layla’s, and Joshua’s joy at experiencing for the first time things I take for granted in my daily life got to me. I know the story’s about to go downhill for them all very soon, but damn that unbridled joy.

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[jhsharman]

"Picnic" Turtle Power

"Silly girls" is deemed okay versus "stupid girls". Obnoxious relationship either way.

The former coloring scheme has the benefit of laying out seaweed and swamp gunk. Now watch the date and consider its relationship to the year of publication, either 1964 or 2004.

Makes more sense for an old reclusive woman to have been around in 1893 in one year than the other year. I suppose there is no reason to dump it to 1933 -- even as a reference to a fair moves from being a historic one and Chicago's coming out party to being some generic fair and presumably her dad now bought a small forty year turtle -- maybe a 40th anniversary commemoration of the Chicago World Fair?

... So... Sixty years ...

Or, running up into the narrative of time lost from granny. Little Archie watches no shows about World War 2 any more.

"Let my turtle go" is good in its brevity but makes for an interesting conscious choice to extend past its declaration given it is a reference to a spiritual connecting the story of Moses and the Israelites with African American slavery. I am reminded of seeing it in the early 1990s used in a public service ad in regarding pet animal abandonment and finding it... out of place. Though, the Wikipedia page on "Go Down Moses" offers up more irreverent reference examples -- Ferris Bueller and Easy A.

[princetonarchives]

Menu Monday: On June 19, 1893, Princeton student Emory Leyden Ford (Class of 1896) ate at the Golden Door Cafe and Roof Garden at Chicago’s Transportation Building and pasted the menu from the trip in his scrapbook. The Golden Door was how visitors were welcomed to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition. Princeton had its own exhibition booth at the fair. This $1 meal would be about $35 today.

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 199

The entire Menu Monday series

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World's Fair Chicago, 1893

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Window, c. 1892 Feeding the Flamingoes Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, New York (1892-1900) Exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893

[hylianengineer]

Once again my anthropology homework got too interesting and I fell down a research rabbithole for four hours.

I now know entirely too much about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in the context of anthropology, representation of Indigenous people, and how those people resisted the colonialist narratives the fair's organizers tried to force them into. I read most of a 300 page dissertation on the experience of a group of Inuit from Labrador, Canada who were coerced into performing at this fair, and then fought back using the US legal system when their employers began mistreating them (and won).

I asked a question in the group discussion post, nobody answered it, and then this happens. I had other things I was supposed to do today. On the one hand, if only all my homework was this captivating. On the other hand, my time management skills continue to infuriate me.

[grizzlyofthesea]

Okay okay okay.

Guys.

Hear me out.

We host something like the 1893 Chicago World's Fair--a showcase of technology and culture from all around the world--but this time, we preserve all the buildings and stuff after the festival is over. Maybe the site can serve as a sort of immersive museum for future generations.

And we don't celebrate Christopher Columbus this time because he was an awful person even by 15th century standards.

And we try to steer clear of racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia/what have you.

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[dragons1re]

Haven’t stopped thinking about how my friends told me that I’m ”what hipsters wish they were“.

[theworkprint]

Loki and Sylvie go round and round in “1893”

Loki and Sylvie go round and round in “1893”

Welcome to Chicago, IL. 1868 where Miss Minutes has a clandestine mission for Ms. Renslayer. Fans of classic sci-fi will appreciate the “Bootstrap Paradox” that occurs here when Renslayer provides a young Victor Timely (our Kang variant for this season) with a TVA handbook. Meanwhile, back at the TVA, despite the mass pruning, new branches have started springing up again—causing O.B. major panic.…

[ramatetsu]

Roooooll credits *ding*

third funniest kh gripe i've seen from anyone recently was someone who said they took issue with sora not knowing how to computer because the islands he's from clearly have electricity so why wouldn't he know what a computer is. absolute [*cinemasins ding*] vibes