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Happy National Ferris Wheel Day!
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Happy National Ferris Wheel Day!

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Happy National Ferris Wheel Day!

Up 'n' down Ferris wheel Tell me how does it feel To be so high Looking down here. -- Norah Jones "Carnival Town" Grab a box of chocolates and a bouquet of roses, because today is ... National Ferris Wheel Day! This annual celebration honors the anniversary of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.’s birth on February 14, 1859, in Galesburg, Illinois. Ferris, of course, was the engineer who invented the biggest attraction of the 1893 World’s Fair. More than 1.4 [...]

By Scott|2018-03-11T10:14:17-05:00February 14th, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Chicago Herald, Ferris Wheel, George Ferris, Midway Plaisance|0 Comments

“I’ll take the 1893 World’s Fair for $200, Alex”
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“I’ll take the 1893 World’s Fair for $200, Alex”

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“I’ll take the 1893 World’s Fair for $200, Alex”

Columbian Exposition fan Dorothy McFarland kindly shared with us some screenshots of the episode of Jeopardy that aired on January 17, 2018, which included the Round 1 category "The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair" ("You remember that," adds host Alex Trebek). The contestants did remember the fair, making a clean sweep of the category. Amanda Griggs provided the correct question to the $200 answer: "Illuminated by thousands of light bulbs, the building seen here was devoted to this new innovation [...]

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:10:33-06:00January 19th, 2018|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|Tags: Devil in the White City (book), Electricity Building, Ferris Wheel, Jeopardy, Liberty Bell, Pabst Blue Ribbon|0 Comments

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS (pp. 15-16)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS (pp. 15-16)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS (pp. 15-16)

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 15 A VIEW IN MIDWAY PLAISANCE.—A city in itself was the Midway, picturesque certainly, and educational as well, however meretricious some of its droll features. It was the playground of the multitude and they learned much while they ate, drank, stared and were merry. The view above presented is from a point about the center of the west half of the Plaisance and a little west of the Ferris [...]

By Randy|2018-03-11T14:39:47-05:00December 26th, 2017|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Austrian Village (Old Vienna), Chinese Village, Court of Honor, Ferris Wheel, Golden Statue, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Statue of the Republic|0 Comments

Get Your (So-Called) Orange Cider
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Get Your (So-Called) Orange Cider

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Get Your (So-Called) Orange Cider

You’ve just taken the thrill ride of your life—ascending 264 feet into the air on a giant rotating wheel of iron, viewing the expansive fairgrounds of the Columbian Exposition from a perspective intended only for birds, and gently returning to terra firma in a car filled with scores of other passengers. You need a drink. Visitors to the 1893 World’s Fair walking along the Midway may have spotted a little beverage stand tucked underneath the east side of the [...]

By Randy|2022-10-15T17:52:50-05:00November 12th, 2017|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: 1851 World’s Fair, Camera Obscura, Chicago History Museum, Ferris Wheel, food, Horticultural Building, Liberty Bell, Midway Plaisance, oranges|1 Comment

1893 World’s Fair trading cards from Topps
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1893 World’s Fair trading cards from Topps

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1893 World’s Fair trading cards from Topps

Sports card collectors know the name Topps well. The company that has produced countless baseball cards and other sports trading cards, often packaged with a stick of chewing gum, also releases non-sports trading cards. One of their recent "vintage" collector's card lines is an "Allen & Ginter" series, named after the Virginia company that produced the first cigarette trading cards. Topps three Columbian Exposition trading cards from 2017 Earlier this year, Topps released a series of 20 [...]

By Scott|2017-10-27T17:15:56-05:00October 27th, 2017|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: Ferris Wheel, Moving Sidewalk, Statue of the Republic, Topps cards|0 Comments

Palacio’s “World of Iron”
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Palacio’s “World of Iron”

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Palacio’s “World of Iron”

Imagine a colossal globe—six times larger in diameter than the “Spaceship Earth” geodesic sphere at Disney’s Epcot Center and supported by a base as tall as the original Ferris Wheel—towering over the 1893 Columbian Exposition fairgrounds. Miles of tramway would carry visitors along a spiral path rising inside the globe and then emerge and continue ascending around the exterior to an observation pinnacle eclipsing any man-made structure. That stupendous vision emerged from the mind of Alberto de Palacio in [...]

By Scott|2022-09-18T15:47:19-05:00October 13th, 2017|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Ferris Wheel, proposed buildings|0 Comments

“A Wheel With a View” in Summer 2017 Chicago History
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“A Wheel With a View” in Summer 2017 Chicago History

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“A Wheel With a View” in Summer 2017 Chicago History

Summer 2017 Chicago History magazine. Who can resist an unexpected trip to the Midway? While I always enjoy ripping opening the envelope to reveal the latest issue of Chicago History magazine published by the Chicago History Museum, the Summer 2017 issue offered a special treat. A gorgeous image of Charles Graham's painting of the Ferris Wheel graces the cover, complementing a 28-page feature, "A Wheel With a View" by Russell L. Lewis. His short essay on the [...]

By Scott|2022-03-05T09:47:53-06:00September 6th, 2017|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Chicago History Museum, Ferris Wheel|0 Comments