The 1904 World's Fair in Saint Louis
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This is a short documentary of 1904 World's Fair that was held in St. Louis, also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This was one of many world expositions that have been held since 1856, but some consider this one to be one of the most significant for a variety of reasons. When the Fair was held, St. Louis was the 4th largest city in the United States.
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Two vendors created a great summertime delight during this 1904 Fair. One was trying sell hot waffles and another was selling ice cream. The ice cream vendor quickly ran out of cups for serving his wares while the waffle vendor was not making much money at all. These two sellers combined their products by rolling the waffles into cones and adding a scoop of ice cream on top. The ice cream cone was born!
Then everyone clapped
"forget the canopies, for this Fair let's just go ahead and build a whole Greco-Roman style City with man-made lakes water fountains statues and glorious marble palaces"
Also worth noting that at the same time the World's Fair was going on, St. Louis also hosted the 1904 Summer US Olympics. It's a shame that the 4th largest US city back then has diminished to a flyover town that nobody knows about.
We went on vacation there. The zoo has a butterfly house from that fair. A large greenhouse looking building. There is the ferris wheel at 6 flags from the original
Yeah, some of the Olympic events were held on the same Forest Park fairgrounds. The big artificial lake was used for some of the water events like diving. It was the first Olympiad ever hosted in the USA, or anywhere outside Europe I believe.
St. Louis is not the transportation hub it used to be, back when it really was the “gateway to the West”. Airplanes “fly over” because they can. In this age of long-haul non-stop passenger air service, the airlines have apparently found other cities more useful to their needs and schedules. Of course this is also the age of high-speed rail, which could revitalize St. Louis, but apparently that’s not a priority. New, wider freeways that make St. Louis easier to bypass in favor of suburban shopping mall theme parks complete with acres of parking lots, Cracker Barrels and truck stops are the priority now.
@@annabrahamson4320 I don't think the ferris wheel at Six Flags is from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. From what I read, the ferris wheel was dynamited after the fair and the large axle was dumped in a swamp in Forest Park. They went looking for the axle during WWII and never found it. The one at Six Flags Over Mid-America may be a reproduction?
This is correct.@@nofortunatesonII
I was raised in St. Louis. In Jan. 1968, I left for four years and my ex-husband and I returned to finish college. I left for the West Coast in 1978 and have been out here since then. I can verify that St. Louis IS known out here and people who have visited recall it fondly, as have all the former St. Louisans who now live out here.
A grand lady I knew, told me when she was 13 years old, she and her family attended the Fair. One day, Alice Roosevelt was in a gondola, she stood up and it flipped. There were gasps of fear. But, then she stood up and everyone clapped and cheered. This lady, I knew, was kin to 14 US Presidents by marriages. She was a DuPuy and Hamilton and Wallace, The Hero of Scotland. She was fascinating, and lived to be 106 yrs old.....
My grandfather was Alice Roosevelt's podiatrist in New York City. He said she was"prickly". However, she did manage to give him TR's autograph.
wow... that is a cool lady indeed❤... love wallace... i also call him hero of scots....
On October 12 1904 my grandparents were married at the Fair grounds. The family of my grandfather, Ralph Burnett, had come from Scotland. The parents of my grandmother, Lottie Harrington, had come from Ireland. For the occasion they had come over from East St Louis IL where they had met . Hey, they called it World's Fair didn't they?
Such a beautiful family history! And another reason to love the Fair 💜
Do tell more ...i love stories from actually relatives point of view. Not media and government
I wish I had asked my grandmother about what her parents had to say about the fair. My grandmother's family settled on a plot of land 4 miles south of where Forest Park is. My great-grandfather was a farmer but built himself a new home in 1905 that stands today. That makes me wonder if he worked on the fair.
Oh those inheritors sure put on a show.
Even in these old pictures, I can just imagine what a majestic sight this fair and all its exhibits were to behold. Especially when the buildings were lit up at night with electric lights. Considering that this was a time when many Americans didn't have electricity in their OWN homes, this was obviously an incredible sight for them! And at a time when travelling more than a hundred miles from your hometown was a privilege mostly reserved for the wealthy, the fair gave people an opportunity to have glimpses of life from other countries and cultures. It was undoubtably the most amazing event ever to be held in the history of St. Louis!
Very well said! That’s exactly what we were thinking. Imagine being a local to St. Louis at this time! It would’ve been incredible!
As I watched this video, the best one on the 1904 World's Fair on TH-cam, I thought of many comments I could make. But at 29:20, as the close of the Fair was described, I was so touched to the heart that I will only say you presented a stirring and remarkable job of bringing the Fair to life, and I thank you most sincerely.
BRAVO
Do you live there??? I'm here
Great documentary! Thanks for releasing this to TH-cam!
Thanks. I really enjoyed this video. The narrator's delivery, so upbeat and friendly, kept me going. There is a ton to learn about this piece of history, and this movie seems like a very thorough, concise introduction. I appreciate.
I've watched several videos about the 1904 World's Fair. This was by far the most comprehensive
and enjoyable. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thank you!!! I remember when I first started making this, my professor wanted to make sure that we weren't doing something that a lot of other people have done already. So when I saw that the 1904 World's Fair video that I wanted to see wasn't on TH-cam, I figured that it would be a good subject to cover.
Thanks for watching.
Very well produced! Thanks for sharing!
A wonderful video/history of the fair. I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Great job Alex.
Many people would really benefit from fairs like this today. Not everyone can afford to travel to all these places. I’d love to attend a world’s fair!
There's going to be one in Osaka in 2025
The truth is they were actually "models" of how the truth intentecuals and people that cared were planning to build the cities all around the country. The only reason it looks the way it does today is because of modernist. Simple and no class is what we have today. Every town was set to be the closet thing to a utopia we would ever have. Evil won when it was destroyed. Notice, how WW1 starts just after.... then ww2 not to long after... the bankers were about to go out of business
@@AlexMathiesenI was hoping for something close like STL again 😂😂
Alex are there any actual constructions pictures ??? These pictures show all buildings complete with scaffolding around them, but no construction.
From my perspective, and from the perspectives of world's fair enthusiasts and historians, those are some of the construction pictures. After all, the land around them is not developed, and some of the windows are missing. I've seen other construction pictures where the buildings look half finished, but I don't believe they would convince any skeptic. They could say that that's just a random construction site and has been relabeled to keep covering up the conspiracy. I admit there aren't a lot of pictures, but I think the most reasonable explanation for that is that film was new and expensive back then, so just take pictures when the fair is complete and open to the public; you'll get better pictures that way.
If you believe that there was a massive historical cover up, that's fine. But there are construction pictures on google images, and on Missouri Historical Society archives. If those don't convince you, then I don't think anything will.
Thanks for watching.
I wish they never demolished these beautiful buildings
Thank you for this Worlds Fair historical documentary ! Great job !
This architecture was nuts. I love the waterways and showcasing of human ingenuity. Definitely makes you wonder what we are capable of
Pretty much anything we put our minds too.
Is there any photographs of them doing the actual construction on these amazing buildings and structures, or did they build them so fast they didnt have time to get any pics? Does any know where I could find images of the blueprints for the buildings also?
you wont find much, they are lying about constructing these impossible buildings with 1800s technology, look up photos of city halls around the world and they all resemble the same architecture
Nope
They were already built - most of them. The main purpose of wars was to destroy these buildings that were built during the 1000 year reign of Christ
Yes, you just have to pay attention when watching this video...
13:59 The Brazilian Pavilion. It was made to last too, with metallic structure, it was fully rebuilt in Rio de Janeiro City two years after the fair's closing, and was known as Palácio Monroe.
It lasted as government venues until the 70s, when, under a dictatorship, modernists fought for it's destruction, using a subway line as excuse. It is one of the biggest losses of the city's beauty and history... 😔
As a Brazilian, learning about our pavillion was a nice but ultimately sad experience. It's shown a couple of times in the video. At 13:19 (bottom left), 13:58, and 25:57 are some of the times. It was not big, but it is said it was praised for its beauty. It was transported to Brazil and assembled in Rio de Janeiro. Since Rio was Brazil's capital, the building served as the Senate. By the 70's, with the growth in the number of senators and also with the federal capital moving to Brasília, it served other public purposes, like being the electoral court.
During that decade some people wanted it to be demolished claiming it was already decaying--it is said the dome no longer was in place, but I couldn't find a photo of it without the dome--and it was being a hindrance to cars, but most people, common people, were against it being removed, but rather restored and kept there or moved somewhere else, but not demolished. But, it was demolished, with the demolishing company selling everything that was valuable in order to make up for the money spent on the demolition, and they made multiple times that money. Some pieces are at a museum at the Senate and others at other museums, like Instituto Ricardo Brennand.
Today, that wide road is not a road, but a square, so demolishing it didn't serve a long purpose for the road, and on the square (at one corner) there is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and in the middle there is some kind of structure that I couldn't find a clear picture of, but it's nowhere near something as big or beautiful. You can barely see it. It's depressing. Even Gandhi's statue, which doesn't have that much of a meaning (if any) to our history, is unimpressive.
The name they gave to the pavillion wasn't a good choice. They named it, here, Monroe Palace, in memory of James Monroe, because he was the father of panamericanism, and it also hosted the Third PanAmerican Conference. This was not a bad thing, but when someone asked, I would believe, why it was called that name, the answer would normally go for talking about panamericanism and James Monroe, not the fact that the pavillion was built for the fair, was praised, and moved to Brazil, which is an interesting story to tell, and would also lead to sea of interesting stories about the fair. It could have been Saint-Louis Palace, for instance.
Its story took me here. Nice video.
Thanks for the info. That was interesting to read.
Thanks for watching.
Eu não sabia que há partes dele no Instituto Ricardo Brennand!
Mas o real motivo da demolição foi a pressão dos modernistas. E como a ditatura queria uma nova imagem de modernos, eles compraram... Uma pena, uma lástima!
@@gemstonesparkle7915 uma lástima mesmo. Estive no Brennand alguns anos atrás, mas eu nem sabia da história desse monumento na época, ou eu teria procurado pelas partes.
Good to know, but you know that for the few Brazilian athletes who came to attend the 1904 Olympic Games, they had to sell sacks of coffee beans along the way to finance their trip to St.Louis.
Bring back the World's Fair.
This is an amazing video, extremely well done!
Its crazy you have more comments on one video than your subs in total.
Im now your 85th and you earned it!
I am a contractor and have seen many homes go up. There's no way they could even get the 1200 acres prepped in a few years. No fn way at all. Constructed to be temporary? The worst houses to remodel are houses built with lathe and plaster bc they are so strong! Absolutely ridiculous narrative what are they hiding....
Please, tell us which ancient power is twisting history?
@@kmaher1424 no idea but the bullshit is easy to spot
@@kmaher1424 FreeMasons. It’s right there in the name. Free Masonry. They found it. Robber Barrons. Who’s families still control the world to this day.
@@pinkdoll3578
Which families? Name them.
@@kmaher1424 The thing about the truly rich families who own everything is they are not like the Kardashians. They prefer to remain unseen. They have the money to achieve that. If you are truly interested research this topic on your own as it is a wonderful experience to stretch your own perception. Never believe just what you are told only what resonates with you in your heart.
Very good production value, definitely deserves more views than it’s got
I am thinking why the hell we don't have these fairs anymore, as if Men's imagination vanished over the years
We still do, they just go By “Expo 20XX” Expo 2020-2021 is in Dubai Expo 2023 will be in Argentina and Expo 2025 in Japan.
What imagination can be have is our brains are either on antidepressants, shitty food, netflix, smartphones and the like?
It's more about economics. The Chicago World's Fair cost billions of dollars in today's money to build, and it was only designed to last 6 months.
@@wallykimball8829 That, and far greater income inequality in the past. IIRC the average wage of someone involved with the construction of these buildings would have been roughly half of what it is now in 1904, in terms of buying power.
It is SAD that the USA no longer participates.
All the rude people, critics, and naysayers after all it's just a 34 min video and there are links. Missed the rules for including x amount of topics. A truly ugly primitive society we're evolving into really shameful with so much bitterness and hate in peoples hearts. How about do something productive and make your own video in a particular area of interest and add a link. Applaud anyone who takes the time to create anything, share their own knowledge, and wish you well on the outcome of that master's thesis project. Thank you.
Username checks out, but thanks, the sentiment is appreciated. What matters in the real world is that I got my A, but the views, likes, comments, and dislikes are a fantastic bonus. It's cliche, but I did not expect to get this many views, so that more than makes up for the less than flattering comments. Since this is what real youtubers deal with everyday on a wider scale, then I can handle it.
Thanks for watching
It is sad (ghastly-tragic), isn't it?
"Ya got ta accentuate the positive and, eeeliminate the negative." - part of some popular song from the past which made much sense and might to some profit be revisited?
And, how very correct you are, re true creation verses the way-more-common destruction by any-and-all of varietous means.
"A truly ugly primitive society we're evolving into really shameful with so much bitterness and hate in peoples hearts. . . ."
Yep! That about cinches 'er, and right now this force is on quite 'a roll.'
@@AlexMathiesen thank you for the video Alex... I watched this wondering if my family was in any of the photos... lol
Bravo.
Very well done. Nice to hear People still have Heart. Be Well Friends
Excellent, well-done documentary, Mr. Mathiesen!
Would be amazing if someone would rebuild it in VR =)
My grandma had her first ice cream cone there. She was four years old.
My great grandmother had her first too! It’s one of my favorite family stories
How old is she now?
My great aunts had their first Ice Cream cone there. They passed around 1990 but I visited them every year until then when I was a child.
My Aunt Grace used to talk about the 1904 Worlds Fair often when we were kids. She told us she had ice cream and hot dogs.
I love how much work was put into this video. It shows the true scope of the fair.
Very proud of the fact that my great great grandmother, Mrs. Finis P. Ernest, was on the Board of Lady Managers for the St. Louis World's Fair.
They also had the Sommer Olympics there. Pretty much at the same time. The only city to host both.
Not quite. The previous World Exhibition in 1900 at Paris also hosted the (second modern) Olympic Games, and London hosted both in 1908. In the early days of the Olympics, it was envisioned that the games would be attached as part of the World Exhibition. The next Olympics and World Fair were planned for Rome in 1908, but the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 1906 led to a humanitarian and financial crisis in Italy, so London hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, and the French and British governments co-financed the Anglo-French World Exhibition in London. After that, the Olympics became a completely separate event from the World Exhibition, although many cities have hosted both events, none have hosted them both at the same time since London in 1908. Rome, Munich and Montreal all hosted the World Exhibition a few years before, and perhaps in preparation for their hosting the Olympic Games.
@@noelleggett5368 I read it was a complete mess, starting with the problems of even getting there at the right time, then there was the fact that it continued for weeks, and was more like a series of contests mixed in with other non-Olympic competitions, than a unified event. But it was early days yet and the modern Games hadn't taken their current form anywhere.
@@653j521 Very true.
As a World's Fair enthusiast, I like this video. I just want to state that at 26:24 you state that this was the first time China exhibited at a World's Fair, but they actually had exhibits at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia.
Well then I guess one of my sources was wrong. As for which one, that's the real question. But thanks for the input and thanks for watching.
Also Exhibits at Chicago World's Fair 1893.
The saddest thing about the lost history/tartaria people is that it shows how disconnected recent generations are from their ancestors and the stories of their lives. These people never talked to grandparents or great grandparents, never heard the stories of the people who built and visited places like the world's fair.
Well, my grandmother was very big on children should be seen and not heard. She told the stories she wanted to tell. (Born in 1906) I know she was made to leave school at 12 to work the family farm and worked for the government as a translator for code breakers in WW2. What she did from 1930 - 1940... no idea. She did not marry until 1943.
The weird thing is is some of us have really good family documentation. Three of my mother's ancestor lines have been in America since 1634. I have excellent documentation about almost every single one of the generations and I don't see anything weird that fits the mud flood/ resets. I really wonder where my family lines were that they were not affected. I think that they were upper middle class for the most part so would that have protected them?
@@1976mcfarlane if it a mud flood was real and caused an advanced civilization to collapse, no.
Tartaria just never existed and the mud flood never happened.
I have pretty good documentation from parts of my family back in the 1600’sand they’re peasants from England who settled in the American south as working class farmers and laborers.
@@baneofbanes Dont know about mud floods or tartaria. But I dont believe for one second they built all this in the 1800s then tore most of it down.
@@baneofbanes Both can be true man. Two civilizations could have existed simultaneously- kind of how they tell us in mainstream history that advanced buildings were being built at the same time “Native American” tribes were doing their thing.- same place, two completely different civilizations
700 people doing everything from drawing nonexistent designs, shoveling dirt, laying bricks, plastering, painting, decorating... truly genius whatever the building is made from, nvm buildings have to hold up there own weight so wood or cardboard can only go so far
700 people to construct one of the large buildings. Is that even possible? Unreal and unbelievable.
@@Dougtroutfisher.4046 Which was ridiculous at best.
@@carpejkdiem Yer post as well...
@@Metalsuitman yes it’s entirely believable.
I really enjoyed watching your video. I did a documentary in 2003 about Birmingham's statue of Vulcan as he was being refurbished for his centennial. The documentary I produced was based on the efforts of Giuseppe Moretti, the Italian artist who was commissioned to create the iconic statue for the fair. When Moretti came to Birmingham to cast the statue he found Alabama white marble in Sylacauga and purchased Gantt's quarry. The small bust statue of the "Head of Christ" carved by Moretti from Alabama Marble was exhibited in the Mines and Metallurgy Building with the statue of Vulcan. You can see it on the left of the screen before the photo tilts up. I know, I can tell this was a tremendous undertaking for you. Not only doing the research but putting the story and video together. Possibly like me, you continue to learn about your subject even after the video is completed. That fella that talked and gave information was a gold mine. I was amazed at the amount and good quality of photographs you presented. But you know I was looking for Birmingham's Statue of Vulcan. Take care!
As a 1939-40 NY Worlds Fair historian I love your beautiful work.
Congratulations.
Thank you. Do you know of any books or videos on the 1939 World's Fair that are worth reading/watching?
I repeat another's comment by saying this is one of the best 04 WF vids out there!!
Wonderful documentary, thank you!!
I’ve been to every worlds fair, the 1904 is by far my favorite
😉
You must be getting on in years.
Thank you for a look back at history.
I've read that the weather during this period in St .Louis was the mildest on record. The ladies were dressed to the hilt in all the pictures. This is where my grandfather met my grandmother.
@25:35 The Wedding day at St Louis had finally arrived, they were getting married on a Giant Ferris wheel in the beautiful grounds of the world fair, it was the happiest day of their lives, and it was written all over their faces.
This was pretty well done. Thank you.
This historical narrative is hilarious. Research Inheritors of a Nation by Jon Levi.
Oh I couldn't agree more, and some of the most obvious pre photo shop photo alterations that I've ever seen.
Unholy obfuscation amnesia man, it's a celebration of annihilation
Try as I have, I cannot yet grasp just WHAT it is that Jon Levi is asserting.
I really like his things . . . when not falling asleep! (His voice is hypnotic, and does produce this very effect in some, I suspect.)
If you might supply a capsule-sized explanation as-to what it is fundamentally, I would be grateful, Xerces 1121.
@@jamesmiller4184 like he's High
Yesss big truth on his channel! ♥️💪🏼🗣💯
What's the more amazing feat? Construction of near megalithic, unduplicatable craftsmanship in two or three years or three "construction" photos and the newspaper articles to make the narrative seem real. I can't decide.
I very much enjoyed this documentary.
The Legacy of the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair permiated my childhood. I heard many a tale of the fair growing up.
I was born in March, 1951 in Sikeston, Mo, 120 miles south of St Louis. Was adopted out of the womb and raised in University City in St Louis County, on the northwest corner of the fair. U City was originally built by magazine publisher Eugene Lewis as a fashionable campground for fair visitors. His grand vision was to recreate the splendor of the Fair to survive. His empire collapsed when convicted of mail fraud, but his iconic octanganel headquaters survivedI and still serves as U City city hall.(my only criticism was your not mentioning it as part of the Fair's legacy. Also, not mentioning St Louis highjacing te 1904 Olympics from Chicago in retaliation for losing out on the Columbia Expostion ten years earlier.)
I graduated from Washington Univadopted in St Louis. The 1904 Olympics were held on the west end of campus. The track bult for the event in still in use. The slide at 6:50 is Brookings Hall, the administration building. My senior year, I lived a few blocks south of the Art Museum. I drove by there at least once a week. It was still free admission, so if I had time I'd stop in.
My mother's mother, born in Chicago in 1883, visited the fair and had a box of momentos, mostly post cards and ticket stubs. She was her widowed husband''s second wife, married a dozen yesr later. Mom, who was born in Chicago a week after the Armistace, (Nov 18, 1918) was eight when she and her younger brother moved with her folks to escape was the very real stereotypical Gangland Shootings of the time. They moved to St Louis, in part because of Grandma's fond memories of St Louis.
well done !thank you for this !
My grandfather Albert Bertram went to both the 1893 Chicago fair and the St Louis fair . He was born in StLouis in 1878 .
Wow. What a lucky man
@@astralenlightenment1743 Yes he had a good life , lived until 1968 . Albert was an architect and muralist in the St Louis area .
Did your grandfather ever share stories about St. Louis with you or your father?
@@lillianmcleod Yes he did , Albert spoke about the Clydesdale horses pulling the beer wagons , the Fair , August Anheuser Busch Sr., his neighbor . He also sang in the German America Opera and played the Mandolin . His father Fredrich owned a 4 story retail store in St Louis , specializing in finery from Germany and Europe . Fredrich was a Civil War vet . Albert was an Architect and muralist in St Louis . My gradfather was also a casual friend with Charles Lindbergh .
That’s really quite spectacular! What a pleasure to hear these stories! Thank you for sharing. Do you have a favorite story he shared?
The good video presentation and excellent documentary about St. Louis World Fair in 1904 gave us well-educated and fascinating information about the history and showcases of the World Fair in St. Louis. Good job! 👍🤠👍
What magnificent buildings!!!
Excellent video! I had no idea of this. That ferris wheel blew my mind
After reading through many of the comments, I want to provide some information for others to see, learn, and enjoy. First, if you liked this video, and want to learn more about the 1904 World's Fair, look up the 1904 World's Fair Society, and we're also on Facebook.
- The construction of the 1904 World's Fair structures was very well documented in 1902-1903-1904: in newspaper stories, many photographs (see the link, below), personal and public narratives and books, etc.
- The massive buildings were built with wood frameworks (exterior, pillars, roofs) and decorated exteriors of staff (a plaster mixture). Easy and fast to produce and construct, and labor and construction were both readily available and cheap.
-- The LPE Company alone employed a workforce of nearly 10,000; other countries and states hired their own companies to build their structures.
- Now, I'm sure there will be many comments made, particularly from the "conspiracy" people, who don't believe in any historical facts, nor about the construction achievements of the early 1900s (because "it's all false, a cover-up"). They will probably never believe in the documented facts of history. Yes, I know that some history is not accurate, or it's politically incorrect by today's culture and standards, or is even (occasionally) wrong. But the huge majority of history is well documented and factual.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE SAME FAKE NEWS AND RELIABLE SOURCES LIKE WE HAVE WITH TODAYS MEDIA
17:00 There's Vulcan from Birmingham, Alabama: then and still the largest iron statue in the world.
Scaffolding is always shown on completed buildings, I work construction and know scaffolding is up long before the end. This isn't what we've been told in my humble opinion
thats what i’m saying
Built in 3 years 1200 acres of development. Those buildings are not wood n plaster. Bs this is our history being erased all major city's that had a fair either burn, earthquakes or just torn down. These buildings cities where there before we showed up, look at the architecture.
All the inside of those buildings show steel everywhere not wood n plastee cause ya can't build without it falling collapsing shitnwaa there like all the other fairs as an excuse to tear it down history reset
Now we couldn't make school books get all kids in schools and parents in factories and start the bs
Hiding the truth bro.
any chance you can share your source for some of the night shots in your video? I've not seen those before. Great video!
These were two invaluable sources I used while trying to find pictures that may not show up on google. It will require a bit of digging, but I hope this helps. Thanks.
cdm17210.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/lpe/search?fbclid=IwAR3YmGhfmeyUMGnvftiYJs5MoeGV9KM4_KgbqLLTKry2wHCqUG5UWchdhn4
mohistory.org/collections?layout=grid&subject=Louisiana%20Purchase%20Exposition%20(1904%20:%20Saint%20Louis,%20Mo.)&images=1
Thank you so much for making this delightful video young man! It was simply wonderful👏👏👏💜🌈💜
Seriously great video thank you
According to the history the 1894 World Fair in Chicago was massive. It marked the official start of the age of Electricity. Tesla and Westinghouse won the contract to light it up with electricity. At a mere fraction of the cost, Westinghouse and Tesla exceeded all expectations and so begun the new era of electricity.
It was the way America was intended to go. Sadly the modernist commies who hate humanity took us the way we have ended up today sadly
Why no mention of the Olympic Games? I would've thought that added cache to the Fair. The 1900 Paris Universal Exposition hosted the 1900 Summer Olympic Games. The awarding of gold, silver and bronze medals that is standard practice today got started at the 1904 St. Louis Games. Why did this documentary ignore this part of the story?
St Louis has fallen a long way since then...
Please make more!
Was this a school project?
Yes, it was my master's thesis project.
Wow ,so incredible,.I attended 1982 world fair in Knoxville Tennessee,it was impressive but nothing like this.
Were the Brown’s Shoe workers from Moberly? Brown had a flagship production facility in Moberly at that time.
This was very well done 👍
Excellent video... thanks !
Great info! Loved his
I have a stamped coin that was my grandfathers that says 1904 St. Louis Expo in the middle surrounded by his address. This had to be an eye opening experience for a 16 year old who took the train from La Crosse Wisconsin.
This is fantastic!
Thanks
@@AlexMathiesen who pays you to show this bs
@@kipbrown1549 what bs?
Great content
Imagine if each World's Fair remained permanently open ? Would Walt Disney simply define his theme park as a "Children's World Fair" ?
I am familiar with this topic through other videos but I'm glad I watched this - a cut above production for sure.
I was lamenting the fact that these World's Fairs aren't as big of a deal anymore.
The wealthy aren't like they used to be. It seems like they used to have to put on a show to win access to the world market and it's consumer base.
Now, they see us as a liability that needs to be reduced.
But this dire situation could be the birth of a new global force of we the people who cooperate, crowdfund, co-create our World's Fair competitor showcasing what voluntary cooperation can do better than this monopoly game of organized crime bankster industry tyranny.
First, I would have an augmented reality experience at local malls. You'd lease a space and have people in costumes recreating the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 with a beautiful false front resembling one of the palaces.
You could have food trucks for the international cuisine.
You get the idea. Especially if you had lightweight glasses Instead of those goggles.
So, to use the same event that was very pro-future to now be pro-psst would be cool.
Like, this green agenda stuff is a scam but it would be cool to end the tyranny of time by allowing there to be communities that take whatever idea further like living in medieval times or an off road paradise or whatever you can imagine since we now know our supposed reality is way more manufactured than we may be used to think.
So, you could sell people on living a better more humane and nature stewardship based way by emulating how people used to live integrated with new ways to do that.
Ok, so after the experience those attendees will become cooperators to help promote this plan.
We could even have a travelling fair that uses new tech to create events showing you can be conservative with resources and also free to do whatever you can produce with teamwork.
We may have a highly polarized world right now but we can agree when we see how this 1904 fair happened that there really was a level of hope and inspiration that America held for all the world and we should strive to restore that trust despite being at our lowest point today.
What a grand looking landscape. A shame all those palaces were built to be temporary
INCREDIBLE FAIR! (Disney would be SSOOO jealous).
As usual, the background music is too loud and overtakes the speakers.
Exactly how did they light these structures at night ?
Excellent video!!!
The floral clock at the Jewel Box?
How did they build the fantastic buildings with horses and buggys?
Who organization is it
Does anyone know who the host/narrator of this documentary is?
I'm just a guy whose master's thesis got more views than expected.
@@AlexMathiesen that is an amazing achievement and you did an excellent job at researching this period. I found it very informative. I hope that you are pursuing your PhD now or considering.
When did the re align the 18 hole golf course? There use to be a fairway across Art Hill in front of the Art Museum.
I remember almost hitting a sun bather in the middle of the fairway in the mid 1990's when I lived in the city.
Also, was this done for KETC?
Hazelwood Seior High, 1974...
14:00 this was the pavilion of Brazil!
thank you, great info
A follow up video of the buildings torn down and why would be a nice follow up.
I own a home built in late 1905 using plans and supplies from the Chicago wrecking company. I'm not 100% sure but I think it was built using supplies that were salvaged from the Saint Louis worlds fair since they had exclusive rights to dismantle and sell the buildings.
I was actually just wondering how much of the material was salvaged during these fairs to be used locally.
This is so cool!! Do you have any photos to share of these specific elements in your home? I’m no expert, but I’d love to see.
@@Animalis_MundanaSemi locally 😂 Chicagonis roughly 7 hours from STL
@@NealBones yeah I'm aware, I grew up about an hour from Chicago so. And I wasn't referring to the st. Louis fair but all world fairs in the united states in general. If Chicago wrecking company did the job of dismantling I'd imagine they brought much of it to Chicago.
@@Animalis_Mundana Maybe state all that initially?
Alex are you related to Ron?
I don't know which Ron you're referring to, but I am not related to a Ron.
So this was the fair where indigenous Filipinos (natives) were brought in as part of the exhibit...
In this particular human zoo, 1,200 natives were exhibited like animals, coerced under duress, forced to butcher dogs and ingest it on a daily basis in front of fair-goers to increase attendance, sensationalize it. ...and to validate the existence of Igorot 'savages' that must be saved by America's manifest destiny to civilize Filipinos.
Due to that, the US was able to push an ulterior motive of depicting the Filipinos as next to animals.
On July 15, 2021, ALAMAT (a pinoy pop group in the Philippines) will reclaim our stories that we are not savages and that we can rise amidst the deeply rooted 'muhi' or hate against us Filipinos because we are KASMALA (STRONG)
@Official_ALAMAT #ALAMATkasmalaJULY15
Well done. Thx
Why didn't they and why don't they keep more of the buildings?
Most of them were not built to last. More like movie sets.
Because they didn't build these buildings. These buildings are old structures that were already there. World Fair propaganda to alter history and pretend like they built it as a temporary structure and then took it down. Cancel culture at the extreme. I believe this was the thriving church era in America which people conspired to destroy.
@@rodimusprime9599 and there were ancient Chinese temples in these historic American church cities?
@@rodimusprime9599 no
This reminds me of the PBS documentary on Coney Island in the same era, and of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, in terms of inventions, and Eurocentric views. People who had loved Art Nouveau at the 1900 Paris Exposition were sorely disappointed by the lack of any notable innovations displayed in architecture and design in the American expositions. It was about harking back to classical forms. For all their pretensions, in the US, world fairs before WWI were staggeringly parochial, as if they were mainly about bringing culture to the yokels, who were wowed by seeing foreigners and big buildings with lots of lights. I would suggest it wasn't arrogance but naivete that made them put on a show like this, just as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show wowed audiences, including royalty, in Europe, and for the same reasons that Native Americans brought to Europe had amazed people at the beginning of European colonialism. Even in 1934 the Dionne quintuplets were treated like an exhibit. It wasn't only color that created zoo-like human enclosures. It was also novelty. One might ask what had changed in expositions in the US from 1893 to 1904. I would suggest not much. I don't know a lot about the 1915 fair, to bring people back to San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, but it sounds like very little had evolved, culturally. I guess it made some sort of sense at the time to hold it during WWI. The only saving grace was it ended before the flu pandemic broke out. For a nauseating paean to that fair try the video "San Francisco's World's Fair 1915," which keeps saying it was such an innocent time.
By the way, incubators were also at the 1915 fair and at Coney Island and apparently everywhere they could get people to look at them. The feeling was strong that there needed to be a groundswell of acceptance for them, against medical establishment roadblocks, to save lives, starting at a German world's fair. Apparently it worked. It's possible to be too cynical just as it's possible to be too naïve about the past. www.history.com/news/baby-incubators-boardwalk-sideshows-medical-marvels
I found a scrapbook of the Dionne quintuplets at a thrift store; it followed their lives until they were teenagers. Someone was really obsessed with them; clipping articles year after year. That was the first time I heard about them.
Ideat... good grief
Does the city of london bank have something to do with these world fairs?
Great job buddy
so the exteriors of these palaces are basically fake? they look like stone or concrete but they're actually just wood, steel, and plaster?
The exteriors of all the large buildings was a plaster-cement mixture on a wood frame... all built to be temporary, and torn down after the Fair -- as the 'contract' with the city of St. Louis required, for the use of the western half of Forest Park. And all the material was salvaged by a salvage company!
I wish I could time travel back to 1904 because quarters from the timer period are worth slot now
$5 just for their weight in silver.
Wait so there was no stone involved in building? They all look like stone structures
thats because them fairs we see all over the world were clearly built by a past civ.. no way in heck they built that with horses and super low tech, we couldnt even achieve such masterpiece today.
That surprised me too. However, someone who knows more about the Fair told me that towards the end of the of the exposition, the palaces were starting to show their age; they probably wouldn't have looked very good if they there still standing in 1905-1906.
@@AlexMathiesen have you ever found and pictures of the buildings under construction? Always seems to just be before and afters.
its a plaster and painted facade. Do you no tsee all the temporary wooden structure on the inside of the building?
@Time4Clocks crazy crazy considering there is documented history of the people of Chicago raising the entire city. Kinda seems like your under the ground idea might not be too far off. Cheers
I just don’t know where to begin to be totally stunned!? And all this knowledge went where!? Water powered electricity...
Have you ever heard of Hoover Dam? Or any damn for that matter? Do you think they're just designed to make big lakes? Dams generate electricity by using water power.
@Andrea spires, etc..? What does that even mean?
@@wallykimball8829 lmao this comment section is a Goldmine ahaha.
@@demaskiert2729 I know! it's like these people just hatched or something. But the "horse and buggy days" comment is a clue. A couple years ago there was some idiot out there saying that the world's fairs weren't real and he kept referring to the simplistic times of the "horse and buggy days", as if the telephone the electric light and steam power didn't exist before the turn of the century. All these idiots would have to do is look at a basic history and they would see the enormous holes in their theories. But it's easier to watch one tin foil site on TH-cam and assume that you know everything.🙄
Love this, thanks for showing so much positivity and great history of My city, especially since we have a bad rep!!!!💯🙄🤦🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️😏
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As a Missouri native, I was really glad to see this. However, I have 2 complaints. First of all, while I understand why the period music was playing in the background, it was annoyingly loud. So much so, that it made it very hard for me to understand the narrator at times. Secondly, when you interview someone, why would you do it in a place where other people are talking in close proximity? What the man had to say was important; but the woman talking in the background made it seem a lot less so.
First, thank you for watching.
To answer comment number one, sound mixing can be frustrating. I have my original music file, I turn it way down, and when I show it to someone, they think the "quiet" version is still too loud. I don't want the music to be too quiet, so I definitely got multiple inputs before releasing this. I can see how someone would say it's a bit too loud, but I least youtube ai provided subtitles.
As for the second bit, I thought a lot more people would complain about this, so congrats, you're the first. And yeah, I was really nervous/not super satisfied with the result. When I met up with Mike, he suggested we get lunch first, then interview, but I was thinking "no. Business, then pleasure." I wasn't really sure where I could do an interview at the History Museum, and the dining room had great lighting. However, the loud table just had to sit right behind us. During the entire interview, I kept thinking "is the mic going to pick this up? Is this going to be bad?" When I got home, the mic definitely picked it up; I wasn't happy, but it wasn't "do the whole thing over again" worthy. So yeah, it boils down to rookie mistakes, and all I can do it learn from experience.
Additional fun fact. When Mike is talking about the legacy of the fair, a woman yelled "NOOO", and I thought I couldn't take it out. Thankfully, Mike repeated himself just enough so that I could edit that out. I was so proud of myself.
Hope you enjoyed the video regardless.