A Century of Progress International Exposition was the name of a World's Fair held in Chicago, Illinois from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial. Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The theme of the fair was technological innovation. Its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms" and its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one end of the fair to the other. The Sky Ride was a Transporter bridge designed by Robinson & Steinman and built for the Century of Progress Exposition (or World's Fair A transporter bridge (also ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge) is a type of Movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river
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History
A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation in January, 1928 for the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. The site selected was the land and water areas under the jurisdiction of South Park commissioners lying along and adjacent to the shore of Lake Michigan, between 12th and 39th streets. Held on a 427 acre (1. 7 km²) plot of land in Burnham Park, much of which was landfill, and bordering Lake Michigan, the Century of Progress opened on May 27, 1933. Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed The fair was opened when the lights were automatically activated when light from the rays of the star Arcturus was detected. |- bgcolor="#FFFAFA"| note (category variability || H and K emission vary The star was chosen as its light had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago world's fair—the World's Columbian Exposition—in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair) a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary The rays were focused on photo-electric cells in a series of astronomical observatories and then transformed into electrical energy which was transmitted to Chicago.
Exhibits
The fair buildings were multi-colored, to create a "Rainbow City" as opposed to the "White City" of the World's Columbian Exposition. The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair) a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary The buildings generally had a linear Art Deco design to them in contrast to the Grecian aspect of the earlier fair. Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939 affecting the decorative arts such as Architecture, Interior design, and Industrial One of the more famous aspects of the fair were the performances of fan dancer Sally Rand. Sally Rand ( April 03, 1904 &ndash August 31, 1979) was born Harriet Helen Gould Beck in Hickory County Missouri. Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway (filled with nightclubs such as the Old Morocco, where future stars Judy Garland, The Cook Family Singers and The Andrews Sisters performed), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history. Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10 1922 – June 22 1969 was an American actress and singer Biography The Cook Family Singers were originally formed in 1885 by David J Cook and his wife Martha The Andrews Sisters were a Close harmony singing group consisting of sisters LaVerne Sophie Andrews ( Contralto; July 6, 1911 &ndash May The fair also contained exhibits that would seem shocking to contemporary audiences, including offensive portrayals of African-Americans, a "Midget City" complete with "sixty Lilliputians", and an exhibition of incubators containing real babies. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan
One of the highlights of the 1933 World's Fair was the arrival of the German airship Graf Zeppelin on October 26, 1933. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander Hugo Eckener landed the 776-foot airship at the nearby Curtis-Wright Airport in Glenview. Dr Hugo Eckener ( August 10, 1868 &ndash August 14, 1954) was the head of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in the inter-war years and was It remained on the ground for twenty-five minutes (from 1 to 1:25 p. m. ) [1] then took off ahead of an approaching weather front bound for Akron, Ohio. For some Chicagoans, however, the appearance of the Graf Zeppelin over their fair city was not a welcome sight, as the airship had become a prominent reminder of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler to power earlier that same year. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately This triggered dissension in the days following its visit, particularly within the city's large German-American population.
The "dream cars" which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical (i. Cadillac is a Brand of Luxury vehicles owned by General Motors. Also see Kelvinator and American Motors Corporation Nash Motors was an Automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha Wisconsin, in e. , paternoster) parking garage—all the cars were new Nashes; Lincoln presented its rear-engined "concept car" precursor to the Lincoln Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Silver Arrow for which it used the byline "Suddenly it's 1940!" But it was Packard which won the best of show. A paternoster or paternoster lift is a passenger Elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons that move Lincoln is an American Luxury car manufacturer operated under the Ford Motor Company. There have been two automobile lines from Ford's Lincoln division named Zephyr. If you were looking for the Peirce arrow, you will find it here. Packard was an American luxury Automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation
One interesting and enduring exhibit was the 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction. The Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition was part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held at Comiskey Park (home of the Chicago White Sox) in conjunction with the fair. The 1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first playing of the midseason exhibition Baseball game between the all-stars of the American League The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic" is an annual Baseball game between players from the National League Comiskey Park (35th Street & Shields Avenue Chicago, Illinois) was the ballpark in which the Chicago White Sox played from 1910 to 1990 The Chicago White Sox are a professional Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
In May 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000, and the Burlington Route its famous Zephyr, which made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes. The Union Pacific Railroad 's M-10000, delivered to the railroad on February 12 1934, at a cost of $230997 The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered Railroad train formed of Railroad cars permanently articulated together with Jacobs bogies built To cap its record-breaking speed run, the Zephyr arrived dramatically on-stage at the fair's "Wings of a Century" transportation pageant. The two trains launched an era of industrial streamlining.
Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the City of Salina, and the Burlington Zephyr as the first Pioneer Zephyr. The Zephyr is now on exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI is located in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood adjacent to
The site of the fair is now home to Northerly Island Park (since the closing of Meigs Field) and McCormick Place. Merrill C Meigs Field Airport, was a single strip Airport built on Northerly Island, the man-made peninsula that also sited the 1933-1934 Century of Progress History As early as 1927 Robert R McCormick and the newspaper he controlled the Chicago Tribune, championed a purpose-built lakeside A column from the ruins of a Roman temple in Ostia given to Chicago by the Italian government to honor General Italo Balbo's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight still stands, although now by itself, not too far from Soldier Field. Fanum At the temples Romans prayed and made Ritual Worship Offerings of a small gift or Animal sacrifices to their Roman Ostia Antica was the Harbour of Ancient Rome and perhaps its first colonia. Italo Balbo ( 5 June 1896 - 28 June 1940) was an Italian Blackshirt ( Camicie Nere, or CCNN leader Soldier Field (formerly Municipal Grant Park Stadium) is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago Illinois, and is currently home to the NFL The city added a third red star to its flag in 1933 to commemorate the Exposition. The municipal flag of Chicago consists of two blue horizontal stripes on a field of white each stripe one-sixth the height of the full flag and placed slightly less than (The fourth star of Chicago's flag was added five years later in 1939. )
Success
Originally, the fair was scheduled only to run until November 12, 1933, but it was so successful that it was opened again to run from May 26 to October 31, 1934. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse The fair was financed through the sale of memberships, which allowed purchases of a certain number of admissions once the park was open. This was done so the fair would not have to be subsidized by the government. More than $800,000 was raised in this manner as the country came out of the Great Depression. A $10 million bond was issued on October 28, 1929, the day before the stock market crashed. BOND (Building Object Network Databases started development in late 2000 as a Rapid application development tool for the GNOME Desktop by Treshna Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. By the time the fair closed in 1933, half of these notes had been retired, with the entire debt paid by the time the fair closed in 1934. In its two years, it had attracted 48,769,227 visitors. According to James Truslow Adams's Dictionary of American History, during the 170 days beginning May 27, 1933, there were 22,565,859 paid admissions; during the 163 days beginning May 26, 1934, there were 16,486,377; a total of 39,052,236. James Truslow Adams ( October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American Writer and Historian. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the first time in American history, an international fair had paid for itself.
See also
External links
- 1933/1934 Chicago World's Fair website
- Panoramic photograph of Century of Progress (from Library of Congress website)
- Interactive map of the Century of Progress Fair
- Website dedicated to the 1933-1934 Century of Progress
- Photographs of Graf Zeppelin over Chicago
- Wikimapia Aerial View of the 1933 World Fair Homes now in Michigan City, Indiana
| Preceded by Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 |
World Expositions 1933-34 |
Succeeded by Brussels International |
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