In his article “A Trip Back in Time to the World’s Columbian Exposition,” published in the November 20, 2019, issue of the Reader, Jeff Nichols has curated an interesting set of travel tips for visitors coming to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.
The suggestions, drawn from travel guidebooks and newspapers from around the world, include such sage advice as this, from the Washington Star:
“There is nothing more disagreeable than the dude at the fair. He is entirely alone in his glory, for nobody who has any brains at all dresses up for tramping around in the dust with a crowd of at least 100,000 people.”
We’ve shared similar advice from small-town newspapers that printed “Guidance for the Unsophisticated” who might be “Goin’ to the Fair.”
The “dude” is “entirely alone in his glory” at the Fair. [Image from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Nov. 16, 1894.]