YouTuber Kaz Rowe has posted an engaging video “Ranking the Weirdest Things at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair” in which she explores twenty-five quirky, surprising, or just-plain-strange attractions of the Columbian Exposition and ranks them on a scale from “slumgullion” to “some pumpkins.”
From the Ferris Wheel to the Mammoth Cheese to the Windmill exhibit, visitors to the Chicago fair were treated to a salmagundi of curiosities. During an interlude in her rankings, Rowe visits with Marissa Croft of the Chicago History Museum to taste two versions of the notorious orange cider that was served at locations across the 1893 fairgrounds.
We were delighted that Kaz Rowe shared several research topics and images from worldsfairchicago1893.com in her video and hope her viewers are intrigued to learn more about:
- so-called orange cider
- California’s “Tower of Oranges”
- the most-popular and most-hated song at the Fair, “After the Ball”
- the two Austrians (Herman Zeitung and Ignatz Lefkovitz) who mailed themselves to the Midway Plaisannce in shipping boxes
- Maillard’s Mammoth Chocolate Statues
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s sculptures at the Fair, including a Statue of Liberty made of salt.
For more about Kaz Rowe, visit her website or YouTube channel
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