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1904 St. Louis World's Fair - Then and Now 😀 St Louis Missouri

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  • Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
  • What's left from the 1904 world's fair in Forest Park. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World’s Fair, was an International Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Held in what is today Forest Park, my favorite park, and a lesser-known fact the third Olympics was held at Washington University at the same time.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 265

  • @SomeplaceOrAnother
    @SomeplaceOrAnother  5 років тому +6

    Thanks for watching 👍 Very interesting history 😃 I made another video on the worlds fair ua-cam.com/video/CZV7EHC-4WY/v-deo.html

    • @tannermanasco2110
      @tannermanasco2110 4 роки тому +1

      Someplace or Another Hot Springs Arkansas is a nice place!

    • @leesfamilybreaks6089
      @leesfamilybreaks6089 4 роки тому +2

      First off, great video! You should do more former Worlds Fair sites! My personal favorite is Flushing Meadows in Queens, but Chicago, San Fran, and other US cities have all hosted Fairs!
      Whatcha think? :)

  • @patrickbush9526
    @patrickbush9526 3 роки тому +19

    I've always been a treasure hunter I got into metal detecting in about 1985. One day I was hunting for civil war artifacts in a small town in Missouri. This old man came up to me and said let me show you something boy. in World War II he was a Minesweeper at Normandy. After the war he came home and brought his metal detector. He was a very first person to hunt Forest Park after the World's Fair. The treasures he had was unbelievable. One Platinum and diamond ring he had would choke a Fatboy. the artifacts he had where unsurmountable This is 40 years ago in a small town in Missouri I hope those things went into a museum. The best treasure sometimes are the people you meet along the way

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      So true 😁 the people you meet along the way is the real treasure

  • @allisonfry9262
    @allisonfry9262 4 роки тому +18

    My grandpa travel from Calloway, Mo to the St Louis Worlds Fair via horse and wagon. It was the first time he saw a car and the first time he eat ice cream. What a wonderful sight for a country boy to see for the first time.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +1

      That’s really cool 😎

    • @babaroga73
      @babaroga73 4 роки тому +3

      I can imagine what it felt like - like travelling 50 years ahead in time.

    • @patrickbush9526
      @patrickbush9526 3 роки тому +3

      Wow that's a great story I have Folks in Callaway County also I'm 75 years old my dad died 2 years ago in 98 he told me how him and Grandpa and Grandma went to the World's Fair buy old Buckboard wagon they were gone from the farm for two months it was the greatest adventure of their life

  • @sarahrichoux6127
    @sarahrichoux6127 5 років тому +17

    I can't believe St. Louis was the 4th largest city in the US in 1904! Thank you for sharing this, very interesting!

  • @KM-qc6fn
    @KM-qc6fn 3 роки тому +15

    I’m from St. Louis, I recommend that you visit us. Many of the buildings are still in tact, these could be the University City - City Hall, Art Hill - The Art Museum, Union Station - Downtown, Botanical Garden, Jewel House... This goes on!

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +5

      St Louis gets a bad rap. It has a lot to offer 👍 We have lots of highly rated attractions and most are free to visit.

    • @leroybrown505
      @leroybrown505 2 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother Yeah it does, I loved it when I visited for the first time. While Visited I stayed in what is currently the inner city ghetto. The house was a 8 bedroom 18th century town house 5 mins from the old pharmaceutical building. It was really cool.

    • @tomjones2202
      @tomjones2202 2 роки тому +1

      I was at Union Station a month ago,,now I want to see everything that is left from that time!! I will be going back in August,, maybe maybe I can!

    • @lmv1888
      @lmv1888 Рік тому

      At least they couldn't destroy all of the old world

  • @dnbtravels
    @dnbtravels 9 місяців тому +1

    Interesting share my friend, thanks a lot , big like 👍👍

  • @krbulldog
    @krbulldog 3 роки тому +8

    Went to St. Louis a few years ago. Super cool city. Forest Park and the zoo is a great place to spend a day. The buildings left from the Fair are gorgeous. Wish all the buildings were still up.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      St Louis is over under rated city. Can you image the tourist draw if those buildings still existed

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 4 роки тому +17

    Imagine if all of the fair had been kept intact. What a world destination it would be.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +3

      Yeah that would have been someplace awesome

    • @tinkmarz1
      @tinkmarz1 3 роки тому +8

      Most the buildings were made of cast plaster as they weren't meant to remain standing after the fair closed.

    • @slimvickins5059
      @slimvickins5059 3 роки тому +6

      @@tinkmarz1 Some were. There’s clear evidence in photos from many Worlds Fairs like 1893 Chicago, for example, that show both older and permanent buildings and the fake plaster crap they threw up around it. They also plastered and repaired pre-existing buildings. The worlds most elite and privileged attended these fairs....you really think they were going to have them scour structures that are “temporary”? The sheer size of these structures. You can’t really think temporary style wood and plaster could possibly support such massive and heavy structures do you?

    • @slimvickins5059
      @slimvickins5059 3 роки тому +5

      @@tinkmarz1 So they had the resources and ability to take 6 million dollar losses (Buffalo World Fair) to build temporary 500-1200 acre fully built out complexes but couldn’t just do the same and make real complexes with fountains, canals, plumbing. Setting up the electricity alone for these fairs (Buffalo Worlds Fair had more lights than New York City!!!) is complex. They were able to go through these EXTREME lengths to create “temporary” complexes?

    • @KM-qc6fn
      @KM-qc6fn 3 роки тому +4

      I’m from St. Louis, I recommend that you visit us. Many of the buildings are still in tact, these could be the University City - City Hall, Art Hill - The Art Museum, Union Station - Downtown, Botanical Garden, Jewel House... This goes on!

  • @gumrubberfilms8704
    @gumrubberfilms8704 4 роки тому +8

    One of my favorite art museums ever!

  • @dianahohimer1107
    @dianahohimer1107 3 роки тому +3

    I'm from St. Louis, left over 40 years ago. I thank you for the videos!

  • @sd4594
    @sd4594 2 роки тому +4

    My grandparents as youngsters went to the 1904 world's Fair. The St Louis Public Library has several thousand photographs taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in their digital collection accessible online. They are highly detailed photographs from the various exhibition Halls.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      Thanks 😊 That is cool I have a great uncle that delivered beer to the fair, by the way he lied about his age 🤪 (not sure on how many greats, I never met him)

  • @WAL_DC-6B
    @WAL_DC-6B 3 роки тому +3

    How appropriate to use Scott Joplin's, "The Entertainer," as background music seeing that Mr. Joplin, a St. Louis resident himself, performed with his ragtime music at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. BRAVO! and thanks for sharing!

  • @gardengeek3041
    @gardengeek3041 3 роки тому +4

    I've only a few tokens passed down from a grandfather born in 1865. But one of them is observations penciled in a tiny notebook as he visited a World's Fair. For years I mistakenly thought it was Chicago, 1893. But the Pavilions he named do jibe with what you are describing. Yours is the most thorough description I have ever come across of the St Louis World's Fair. Thank you so much, it has brought this notebook to life.
    I had also forgotten about the great history of St Louis, the Louisiana Purchase, and good King Louis IX. Some people from that region, like my father who grew up on the Ozark plateau, used to pronounce St Louis without the final S ( the French pronunciation, though I don't think he knew that). The first time I heard him say St Louie, I thought it was slang or a nickname. I suppose no one says it that way anymore, or do they?

  • @joycegresham9044
    @joycegresham9044 4 роки тому +5

    Thanks for posting!!!Just got through watching Meet me in St Louis!!!

  • @SandraPinkParanormal
    @SandraPinkParanormal 4 роки тому +3

    Very interesting video thanks for sharing👍

  • @LovingLifeHitchedUp
    @LovingLifeHitchedUp Рік тому +1

    Great information. Love the musical accompaniment.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  Рік тому

      Thanks 😊 it turned out pretty good, way more popular then I thought it would be 😎

  • @TravelingWithEmMe
    @TravelingWithEmMe 2 роки тому +2

    Cool video idea! Love to learn about History!

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      Thanks 😊 it was fun to make and ended up being quite popular 😎

  • @mccoy79productions66
    @mccoy79productions66 2 місяці тому +1

    Nice share!

  • @mudnut59
    @mudnut59 4 роки тому +3

    Great video, Interesting to see the ... Then and Now .... about the world Fair!! Cheers!

  • @donnamize1070
    @donnamize1070 5 років тому +3

    Very cool! Thanks!

  • @PeachyEats
    @PeachyEats 5 років тому +6

    Amazing sites! Love your content!

  • @walkswithholly4610
    @walkswithholly4610 3 роки тому +1

    LOVE this! Meet me in St. Louis is one of my favorite old movies. This would be so fun to go and see!

  • @annaleelatham316
    @annaleelatham316 4 роки тому +4

    I thoroughly enjoyed your video of my hometown.

  • @caseymckinney4101
    @caseymckinney4101 2 роки тому +1

    Great work tyvm

  • @justinzeid212
    @justinzeid212 4 роки тому +4

    Contrary to popular belief, the remains of the Ferris wheel were not buried in the park. It was just scrapped. The axle for the wheel was shipped back to Chicago, where it was cut up for scrap during World War I.

  • @ericabootzgibson4755
    @ericabootzgibson4755 2 роки тому +2

    Love My City, thanks so much 4 Ur amazing videos!!!!💯👍🏿💪🏿👏🏿☺️💜💙(314)🤞🏿

  • @Taquin1977
    @Taquin1977 3 роки тому +7

    BTW, the spot light on the building is actually still there. It is raised and lowered via elevator and still works to this day.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +1

      Taquin1977 very cool 👍 thanks for watching 😀

    • @Eriknorcal
      @Eriknorcal 3 роки тому +3

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother When the Muny performed MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS in the 1960s, the carbon arc light on top of the University City City Hall (also the library, at least then) was put in working order. At the end of the show, when all the lights at the fair go on, there were many lights backstage, and the University City light was also turned on and aimed to shine over the stage at the Muny, pointed toward the audience. Even from a distance, it was very bright - like those spotlights at the beginning of all the 20th Century Fox movies. (I didn't read all 100+ comments on this video, so forgive me if someone else mentioned this). BTW, I grew up in St. Louis and spent a lot of time in Forest Park but never knew until your video that the Olympics were held at Washington University at that time. Thanks for the information.!

  • @DoodletheTravelBug
    @DoodletheTravelBug 3 роки тому +3

    Man... I have never seen that art museum before, and I seek our art museums when I travel. It is so pretty! This was a great vlog. I love how you incorporated old pictures.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      It's a nice museum I have a video from there if you want to check it out. Thanks 😁

  • @Lostcyborg
    @Lostcyborg Рік тому +1

    Amazing video and so detailed. Someone posted photos on Twitter. I actually had to do a double take and UA-cam the 1904 world's fair in st Louis. Then I saw your video and was immensely happy for your detailed walkthrough of the beautiful park grounds. To be honest all the world's fairs in the past have been extremely well done and breathtaking.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  Рік тому

      Thanks 😊 glad you enjoyed. I had the pleasure of visiting another worlds fair sight in San Francisco. They had to redo it in concrete but it really gives you a feel for what it was like. This is the link to that video. ua-cam.com/video/jfgQva8CCG4/v-deo.html

  • @theresehabenicht3182
    @theresehabenicht3182 2 роки тому +1

    Great video

  • @DalainaRenee
    @DalainaRenee 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for sharing why did they take it down? Such a huge part of American history I love the movie Meet Me In St Louis ✨

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks 😊 I just rewatch Meet me in St Louis 😃 I don't know why everything was torn down. Most of the buildings were temporary structures.

  • @LivingtheSilverLife
    @LivingtheSilverLife 3 роки тому +3

    We love this park too. Mainly because the zoo is there. It's my favorite zoo. The Grand Basin is another favorite as well as the outdoor theater. We went to see Newsies there. I've never been by the Government Bird Cage. When I was visiting Sara one time, we went to the museum in Forest Park. I can't remember what it was called, but it had a whole display on the St. Louis World's Fair. So interesting.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      Yeah, the history museum I did a video on that last year about this time. To bad when you went to the zoo you didn’t see the bird gage it’s pretty cool to think it was here in 1904. There redoing it right now it was closed in October the last time I was there. Have a great week 👍

  • @GiulioGiorcelli
    @GiulioGiorcelli 2 роки тому +2

    Great video, I've been interested in the world fairs ever since I moved to the US a few years back. I still scratch my head when I think about what they were able to accomplish with primitive tech and in very little time. I wish more structures had been preserved

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      Thanks 😊 the fair must have been amazing 🤩 Glad you enjoyed 👍😎

  • @natureshare4006
    @natureshare4006 3 роки тому +2

    Very nice video, I like it, keep up the work!

  • @KM-qc6fn
    @KM-qc6fn 3 роки тому +7

    Many of the canals, statues and buildings are still in tact.

  • @rpm12091
    @rpm12091 7 місяців тому +1

    I used to go sledding on Art Hill in the 50’s and 60’s, great times.

  • @ginamaria2579
    @ginamaria2579 2 роки тому +1

    That was really cool

  • @IMDbStudio
    @IMDbStudio 2 роки тому +1

    Great video BTW

  • @svarner8206
    @svarner8206 4 роки тому +3

    How interesting! My great grandfather attended this fair. Unfortunately, he was killed in a train wreck on the way home so his family never got to hear his stories of the many wonders.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +1

      That is horrible (the train wreck) I bet his story’s would have been great.

    • @svarner8206
      @svarner8206 4 роки тому +2

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother There were actually two that I heard about. He was killed in New Market, TN. on his way home.

  • @mikerequadt9661
    @mikerequadt9661 4 роки тому +2

    Great Basin at night with the coloured lights is nice.

  • @RidingElevators
    @RidingElevators 2 роки тому +1

    I didn’t realize how much history was in day Louis. We’re going there this summer to bring the kids, so I’m interested to see some of the things that you saw! This was so great. Thanks for sharing

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      Thanks 😊 there is a lot of nice places to visit. Don't forget to stop by the Zoo 😎 and take a train ride while your there 😃

    • @RidingElevators
      @RidingElevators 2 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother Thanks! I'll be sure to add that to our list!

  • @pedrozatravel
    @pedrozatravel Рік тому +1

    Fun to see what happened after all these years

  • @stephenburns3678
    @stephenburns3678 Рік тому +1

    Thank you

  • @ARIZONATOURIST
    @ARIZONATOURIST 2 роки тому +2

    Wow 21k that's impressive my friend 👍 it is a very interesting video for sure great job on the editing my friend 👍 have a great weekend my friend from your friend and Supporter ARIZONA TOURIST 🏜️😎👍👋

  • @flynigburrito
    @flynigburrito Рік тому +3

    How Unbelievable is the narrative given... Unreal impossible time lines, unreal impossible building techniques, unreal impossible to happen the way they're saying it happened. A bunch of that stuff was already there. Most of it was already there. Just like every world's fair.

  • @LifesAWhirlwind
    @LifesAWhirlwind 2 роки тому +1

    What a wonderful time the visitors of the fair must have had :-)

  • @brentmoentmann
    @brentmoentmann 5 років тому +5

    Little known fact from a lifelong STL'er. The SLU frats used to steal the sword from the St. Louis statue. Till it was welded in the late 70's.!

  • @joeandersen6553
    @joeandersen6553 3 роки тому +8

    Built for a fair. Temporary structures.
    We don't build I'm like THEY once did.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому

      That for sure 👍

    • @great-white-buffalo
      @great-white-buffalo 3 роки тому +4

      Built massive elaborate palaces. Beautiful sculptures and waterway canals. Palace of Electricity= Largest use of electricity of its time. There was a never before water purification process discovered in 1904 and implemented for the fair. Amazingly only WEEKS before the opening day. According to the narrative the site was chosen in 1901 and opening day was April 1904. They built all of this in 3 years? For a fair that lasted only 7 months and destroyed all the structures except one, the Palace of Fine Arts? I’m surprised more people don’t look into this deeper. None of this makes sense to me. How about you?

    • @joeandersen6553
      @joeandersen6553 3 роки тому +2

      @@great-white-buffalo it doesn't make sense.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому +2

      @@great-white-buffalo Ideat. JFC ideat. Massive numbers of photos of it are available. Ideat. It was built, it was held, much of it afterwards was disassembled - as planned.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому

      @@joeandersen6553 Neither do low-intelligent people like u who clearly can not grasp that perhaps people then had a stronger work-ethic and just did things.

  • @here_we_go_again2571
    @here_we_go_again2571 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for a lovely visit to the site of 1904/1905 Worlds Fair and Olympics. 👍👍
    (subscribed)
    I see those people who subscribe to Great Tartaria --Tartarian Empire (conspiracy theory) have been
    having a go at you on this and your other 1904 World's Fair video.
    The Tartarian Empire idea was cooked up by a man in the Soviet Union/Russia named, Anatoly Fomenko.
    His "New Chronology" was based on the writings of an anti-Tsarist revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovich
    Morozov (1854 --- 1946)
    These ideas were popularized by the Nikolai Levashov (1961 - 2012) who was a pagan (neo-pagan)
    occultist and psychic healer who started an organization to promote his ideas and Formenko's series
    of books. ("Greater Tartaria was repressed, there was a great mud flood ..." "The Vatican ..." etc.)
    Formenko's still probably shilling his books. Anyhow, the Russian government, the Russian Orthodox
    Church consider his organization "Renaissance. The Golden Age" to be a cult.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  Рік тому +1

      Thanks 😊 these ended being pretty popular. Thanks to the controversy 🤪👍

  • @FreeRV
    @FreeRV 3 роки тому +3

    Hi 🙋‍♂️ thank you for sharing great 👍 historic story, land was cheap back than USA 🇺🇸 paid for Alaska 2 cents per acre including great-great parents of Sarah Pailin on it As IS lol 😂

  • @luigi3duran
    @luigi3duran 3 роки тому +2

    All I could think of at 0:44 was "clang! clang! clang! Went the trolleeeeey"

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      😂 meet me in St Louis haven't seen that movie in years. Have a great day 👍

    • @luigi3duran
      @luigi3duran 3 роки тому

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother it was my holiday watch yesterday and that brought me here, lol

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому

      @@luigi3duran where did you find it?

    • @luigi3duran
      @luigi3duran 3 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother bought it on Amazon

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +1

      @@luigi3duran Thanks

  • @Retromicky82
    @Retromicky82 2 роки тому +1

    I actually collect worlds fair items has there cool to see how things have changed . Sadly I have to import alot from America and costs are high now .
    Fantastic beautiful buildings .
    It's crazy how things have changed nature took it back .

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks 😊 My mom has a pretty big collection of items from the fair 😎

    • @Retromicky82
      @Retromicky82 2 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother awesome 😀

  • @lemon1679
    @lemon1679 3 роки тому +3

    And who built all those beautiful buildings and why were they destroyed after the fair?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +1

      Hi, thanks for watching 😁👍 The buildings were built by the people of St Louis. It looks like from the pictures, that these buildings were super fancy but think of it more like a Hollywood set. The fronts were magic but the real building was just a cheap temporary structure. It would have been awesome it everything was still here today 😁 of course some were meant to stay like the Art Museum.

    • @getrightconstruction1342
      @getrightconstruction1342 2 роки тому

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother you say they were built temporary how long did this entire project take to construct? more than a decade judging by its entirety.and how many workers? What was st louis population in 1904???

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      @@getrightconstruction1342 I'm not really sure but according to my video at the history museums world's fair display. It took a few years to construct they had to get the park ready with roads and sewers and then build all the buildings. Have fun searching for those answers I'm sure there out there somewhere 👍

    • @jasonodell79er
      @jasonodell79er 9 місяців тому

      ​@@getrightconstruction1342the whole narrative is obviously bullshit. You have to be an idiot to believe that this was all temporary. Fuck the masons.

  • @tomdulle1707
    @tomdulle1707 3 роки тому +2

    The King Louie IX statue was not there in 1904. It was made as a thank you gift by the Worlds Exposition Company to the city of St Louis for hosting the fair. The clock tower was also NOT there in 1904.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      You got me on the statue I missed that by a couple years but the building with the clock tower was build in 1892. If I remember right it survived the fire.

  • @joeygambino6769
    @joeygambino6769 Рік тому +1

    Ferris wheel axle was buried at skinker and wydown. I believe the Ferris wheel stood very close to that area. Is it marked where the wheel stood during the fair?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  Рік тому

      Thanks 😊 I have heard that. I don't think it's marked but it would be cool if it was

  • @sandrawinkler8965
    @sandrawinkler8965 5 років тому +5

    Birth place of the Ice-cream Cone.... Hamburger..... Hot Dog.... Ice Tea.... Kinda sounds like what I had for lunch yesterday lol.... Felt like I was ready to give birth afterwards LMAO.... Anyway, had a couple of friends come up from Poplar Bluff and visit me back in 1970....One Eyed Jack Aldrich & his close buddy Michael York, maybe you remember his family's business on Hwy 67 just outside of The Bluff called York Village..... Anyway, went to the Bird House..... Was not quite in our normal state of minds that day, was underthe influence of a little pill called LSD.... was quite an enjoyable experience inside of the Bird House, until we decided to leave, when Jack asked an older couple (probably mid 70ish) "How Do You Get Out Of Here?"......the old gentleman paused for a moment and said to Jack... "Do You Want To Get Out? Or Out-Out?"....I could almost see his brain start to corkscrew right out of the top of his head, when I saw his reaction! Was hilarious! Funny how one little picture stirs up memories of events long past and forgotten! Fantastic video I hope the is more. Next time, I'll sign in under my UA-cam account, instead of my gf's!

  • @bulkathos154
    @bulkathos154 2 місяці тому +1

    so were the building not made of stone? was the incredible stone look just made of word or something? where did the buildings go?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 місяці тому

      Most of the building were temporary structures, they used plaster of Paris for the decorative fronts. I have a video coming out soon that shows the show grounds. They redid the 1904 exhibit in the Missouri History museum. If you interested you should subscribe you can alway unsubscribe after you watch it. Thanks for watching 👍

  • @dianewinnicki8115
    @dianewinnicki8115 3 роки тому +2

    Great video. I went to 1964 WF. It was amazing. Wish we would have another one.

  • @stevelentz6289
    @stevelentz6289 2 роки тому +1

    What about the “incubator babies “?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      Yes, I think there was incubator babies I think 🤔 not positive.

  • @SolomonHomestead
    @SolomonHomestead 4 роки тому +2

    Yes St. Louis was well regarded in early 1900's. But since the city has been in decline..... We live in St. Louis city limits but the residents in the city limits is in decline and has been for quite some time.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +5

      Yeah, St. Louis has a bad rap. That’s one of the reasons why I’m doing more videos from St.Louis attractions.

    • @michaelverbakel7632
      @michaelverbakel7632 Рік тому

      St. Louis also hosted the Olympic Games in 1904.

  • @candysmith8724
    @candysmith8724 5 років тому +3

    Those buildings around the water were fabulous in 1904. Wish they would of kept them and restored over the years. All that's left is that Art Palace. Apparently the other buildings were more elaborate if they thought the art palace was ugly.

    • @Nopenotatall
      @Nopenotatall 4 роки тому

      The other buildings were temporary and made out of a wood frame and paperish exterior

    • @justinzeid212
      @justinzeid212 4 роки тому

      @@Nopenotatall It was called "staff." It was a mixture of hemp fibers and plaster of Paris, built on a wooden frame.

  • @BMDSD
    @BMDSD 2 роки тому

    I would love to pay attention to what is happening in this video, but the song on a loop is incredibly distracting and irritating. I'm pretty sure there was more music available from the time.

  • @paulpetock2836
    @paulpetock2836 2 роки тому +1

    My grandfather Albert Bertram went to the 1904 fair , and the Chicago fair in 1893 . Born in St Louis in 1878 he lived until 1968 and witnessed many world changes . His life spanned from horse power to man in space . Thanks for the look back !

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks 😊 that is cool 😎 I had a great great uncle that delivered beer at the fair. Glad you enjoyed the video 👍

    • @paulpetock2836
      @paulpetock2836 2 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother I remember my grandfather speak about the clydesdale horse drawn wagons . My great grandfather Fredrick Bertram who was born in 1845 also attended the fair . Fredrick was a civil war vet with the GAR and later developed a large import store in St Louis selling finery from Germany and Europe . He died in 1921 , born with the beginning of the Telegraph and living into inter continental air travel .

  • @imasmurfy1
    @imasmurfy1 3 роки тому +3

    The placement of large trees in the old pictures don’t match the official story of new/temporary buildings for a fair. 🤔🤷‍♀️

  • @jayleslie5081
    @jayleslie5081 3 роки тому +2

    i'm the only one who still think's the that worlds fair should be rbuilt today and i know because i have been trying since 2002 to rebuild it noooone else really cares anymore!

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +1

      It would be cool to rebuild but so expensive I doubt It could be pulled off but imagine the tourist draw that would have. Thanks for watching 👍

  • @jayleslie5081
    @jayleslie5081 3 роки тому +2

    i know where the axle is buried!

  • @caseymckinney4101
    @caseymckinney4101 2 роки тому

    Jefferson City is Sun Capital

  • @davidhunt3606
    @davidhunt3606 2 роки тому

    Well the history yesterday were told about St. Louis and many other OLD cities is not likely true. Just try and match the time period with our technological advancement and it's clear that the stories don't add up

  • @brunoantony3218
    @brunoantony3218 3 роки тому +2

    So they kept the ugliest building but demolished all the gorgeous ones?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, it's to bad they didn't keep more of the buildings

    • @courtneyb4097
      @courtneyb4097 3 роки тому +1

      Some of them were only temporary and made with a plaster mixture. Parts of them are on view at Missouri History Museum in the World's Fair exhibit.

  • @Rick_Foley
    @Rick_Foley 2 роки тому +1

    Disregard any posts that use the word "narrative." Except this one, of course.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      I never in my wildest dream did I think this video would be controversial 🤪

    • @Rick_Foley
      @Rick_Foley 2 роки тому +1

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother Yes, something about old architecture being too beautiful to be real or built by mortals. Some crazy stuff floating around nowadays.

    • @AlexMathiesen
      @AlexMathiesen 2 роки тому

      ha haha hahahaha PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!

  • @manologocho
    @manologocho 4 роки тому +3

    Such an amazing structures and why the destroy that heritage to humanity amazing statue desing today would be an spectacular city to visit ... so sad

  • @duphasdan
    @duphasdan 3 роки тому +2

    The buildings of the fair back then looked so beautiful. It is a shame, if not a massive sin, that they are largely no longer there.

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому

      It is a shame, If they new the future I think that would have left them.

    • @jaywlazlowski6395
      @jaywlazlowski6395 3 роки тому +4

      Those buildings were there long before that fair was imagined.. buildings like that were all over America before Europeans came here. They used worlds fairs as an excuse to destroy these old world cities that remained after the last reset

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 3 роки тому +1

      @@jaywlazlowski6395 No. You are 100% wrong. My Grandfather helped build those plaster buildings for the fair. There is a history museum in Forest park showing how it was all built with plenty of photos and plans. Those buildings were constantly falling apart for the year and a half they were there. It was all temporary; except for the Art museum which you can visit today.

    • @yeetman4953
      @yeetman4953 2 роки тому

      @@jaywlazlowski6395 ???

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому

      Ideat. That's like saying don't eat a beautifully frosted cake.

  • @jayleslie5081
    @jayleslie5081 3 роки тому +2

    just because you can't see something does not mean it is not still there the fair is still standing! i know because i have been there many times the fair still exsits!

  • @ilietop2501
    @ilietop2501 2 роки тому +2

    Theres a reason there are no picturs of the construction of those buildings ,from all of the fairs! Lol

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      😂 It's hard to find high quality pictures of the fair 🤪 But I have seen construction pictures 👍 I'm not 100% sure but there might be some in my second video👍

  • @kellywicka5598
    @kellywicka5598 2 роки тому +1

    How beautiful, where’s all the pillars, statues, fountains, gone??

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      It does look really nice in the pictures. I couldn't tell you were they all went. They should have saved them.

  • @stevenlupanko2983
    @stevenlupanko2983 3 роки тому +2

    Hi can anyone enlighten me as to whether taxidermy animals similar to toy zoo animals but made with goat skin or similar were sold at this world fair. I have picked up a 3ft plus taxidermy tiger in a antique shop its definitely the same as the ones that are advertised and have sold on ebay in the past few months but I have emailed all the sellers and not one has any provenance its all hearsay follow the leader. I know antiques and taxidermy from this era and its certainly from this time period. People are advertising them as wood body but as mine is so large the pelt has shrunk and pulled the rather crude stitching apart and to me its clearly not wood these are paper mache or a similar composite around a metal frame then pelt on top. My theory is that is they were sold in st Louis zoo or that they could have been carnival prizes as there is more small ones than medium one and my large one is the only large one I have seen. Kind of ties in with a carnival or fair usually rigged so nobody wins the biggest which would make mine rather rare. If anyone has any provenance or opinion I would genuinely like to hear your opinion. Im on a mission. Thanks steve

  • @cskinner6564
    @cskinner6564 3 роки тому

    My my how this time the shall fall short 4 thy wickedness is sure 2 be sent 2 hell soon enough.They tear up our cities and throw themselves a fair well Not this Time.

  • @norbertrivera
    @norbertrivera 3 роки тому +2

    But why the original structures were destroyed?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  3 роки тому +2

      Not all were destroyed but most were built to be temporary much like today’s fairs but labor was cheap and it was a special occasion so they went all out. I bet if they could have seen the future they would have build them to last. Can you imagine the tourist draw they would have.

    • @norbertrivera
      @norbertrivera 3 роки тому +5

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother So they built this beautiful place like temporary? wow! i can't believe that . The main structure the dome is what take my attention was so beautiful.

  • @alexflores250
    @alexflores250 4 роки тому +2

    Hello I'm from Spain, nice video, I am searching for this kind of videos about fairs around the world. I have a question. What happened with all the beautiful buildings that showed in the pictures? Why don't exists anymore? I looked a lot of beautiful buildings and statues and I wondering why all they disappears?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +2

      Hi, for some reason most of the buildings were build to be temporary. If I had to take a guess, it was probably less expensive. Labor was cheap. The façades were made of a material similar to papier-mâché. I made two more videos showing the the fair one is of a display at the history museum.

    • @alexflores250
      @alexflores250 4 роки тому +2

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother Hey there, thank you so much for your comments, I will try to follow all your content I like to travel and wonder nice and beautiful places too. Greetings from Spain and good luck with your work!

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  4 роки тому +3

      Alexander Flores traveling thru UA-cam it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about catching you know what 😜 hope you enjoy, have a great week 👍

    • @alexflores250
      @alexflores250 4 роки тому +2

      @@SomeplaceOrAnother haha that's true, nice week to you.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому

      JFC ideat, what part of MOST OF THE BUILDINGS WERE TEMPORARY do you not understand...

  • @gdbriot1162
    @gdbriot1162 2 роки тому +2

    Wow, over 100 years old and still standing even though it’s supposedly made of wood, plaster, and “staff”. Could have fooled me, looks just like stone. We built none of these buildings, we inherited them.

    • @alaingadbois2276
      @alaingadbois2276 2 роки тому +1

      What building are you talking about?
      The fine arts building was made to be permanent. It was never in plaster and wood.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому

      ideat.

  • @AtmaureanNoble7
    @AtmaureanNoble7 3 роки тому +3

    Scorched Earth technique to erase Americas illustrious Moorish past. Which sets off a sort of temporal displacement. St. Louis, Chicago and Michigan was a heavy Carthaginian area and later Ottoman Atmaurini.

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 3 роки тому +2

      This was Beaux-Arts style popular in the late 1800s; all the buildings were quickly made of wood lath and plaster. There are plenty of photos and films of it going up. There is no mystery. My Grandfather worked on some of it.

    • @AtmaureanNoble7
      @AtmaureanNoble7 3 роки тому

      @@mr.bnatural3700 You can see these styled building in various paintings with Moors roaming about long before the late 1800s. And, if it was built in the late 1800s why tear it down after the world fair?

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 3 роки тому +3

      @@AtmaureanNoble7 those building were quickly built with lath and plaster. They were cheap and temperary. They were falling apart after a few months. There is plenty of info about the fair and the buildings online. It's not a mystery.

    • @yeetman4953
      @yeetman4953 2 роки тому

      @@AtmaureanNoble7 stop spreading your black supremacist bullshit.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 роки тому

      Ideat.

  • @Michaelmas68
    @Michaelmas68 2 роки тому +1

    Tartarian architecture never looked better

  • @mikewazowskisas1489
    @mikewazowskisas1489 3 роки тому

    Something is very off about this whole story.

  • @wtarizona1041
    @wtarizona1041 5 років тому +10

    Shortly into this video @ 1:45, the narrator mentions "It's amazing how different it looked"; apparently he has no idea that our entire "world history" has been completely rewritten. Nothing but lies. He doesn't realize that these amazing "Roman/Greco" structures were already here, buried deep in mud. Research the term 'mud flood' and see for yourself; pictures from our past they don't want you to know about. God's word is truth. There was a great flood that covered the entire earth. The great awakening is upon us.

    • @ryanclark9260
      @ryanclark9260 5 років тому +2

      So tru

    • @sandrawinkler8965
      @sandrawinkler8965 5 років тому +3

      You Fucking idiot! Most of these buildings were constructed between 1880-1910! You mentioned God in your comment.... Why would you spread lies and false information and then mention God? .....people like you give religion a very bad name! Shame on you!

    • @bryanferguson4280
      @bryanferguson4280 5 років тому +1

      Wt Arizona aren’t you just a ray of sunshine. 🤨

    • @kymwright4151
      @kymwright4151 5 років тому +1

      Soooooo true!

    • @leesfamilybreaks6089
      @leesfamilybreaks6089 4 роки тому +4

      Oh no. Oh please don't. You believe the Bible teaches that there were somehow ancient American civilizations that were as advanced as the Greeks and Romans but that were destroyed in the flood? May I ask WHERE in the Bible you saw that, lol?

  • @caseymckinney4101
    @caseymckinney4101 2 роки тому

    Sacred geometry and vortex math harmonics can heal by frequency and levitate mass by vibration

  • @stevelentz6289
    @stevelentz6289 2 роки тому +1

    So all the buildings are made out of wood and say except for this art building?? it was just like the rest of the building is made out of like marble?

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому

      I think it's easy to think of the fair as a Hollywood studio the fronts of the builds were amazing being constructed of plaster of Paris to look awesome but the builds were just constructed as cheap as possible. Marble was probably only used on the buildings that were intended to last.

  • @IMDbStudio
    @IMDbStudio 2 роки тому +1

    It is very curious that We as a people and nation could afford to Build , construct and finance Palaces , Castles and Entire City's and Then just destroy them..... Hmmm makes me wonder about our so called "History"

    • @SomeplaceOrAnother
      @SomeplaceOrAnother  2 роки тому +1

      It is interesting 🤔 but my thought is that it was kinda like Hollywood set were the fronts look amazing but behind the fronts was just cheap tin buildings. Also labor was plentiful and cheap not like today.

  • @lucas73628
    @lucas73628 3 роки тому +1

    The fair was a cover-up of something much bigger.

  • @ManuLeMayan
    @ManuLeMayan 4 роки тому +5

    What if i told you the officialstory of hte fairs is bogus and hides a very deep and sinister truth.

    • @Nopenotatall
      @Nopenotatall 4 роки тому +1

      Maybe you’d have an interesting story if I didn’t have a stroke trying to read your comment

    • @ryanneistat2676
      @ryanneistat2676 4 роки тому +3

      Let's hear it

    • @lay10vids
      @lay10vids 4 роки тому +1

      Ryan Neistat i second this

    • @farmyardflavours
      @farmyardflavours 3 роки тому

      I'm sure it was told to you by someone named jon

  • @dutro44
    @dutro44 3 роки тому +2

    Jon levi look it up

  • @jamesoverholt878
    @jamesoverholt878 3 роки тому +1

    Almost every single one of your fun facts are inaccurate.

  • @rodimusprime9599
    @rodimusprime9599 3 роки тому

    Listen, I know it's very confusing to try to figure out what happened, I'm not very sure either. But I purchased maps from 1500s. All of the cities of America and canada are already mapped out and establish. The map shows many many large boats sailing all over the world with Christian flags on the boats. I have a feeling that from the time of Christ until now is what is called the church age where Christian thought, architecture, influence was dominating the world. I believe America was established long ago. It was occupied by monstrous things including giants and dragons, which the Christians chased out. What we are seeing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, even now, is the destruction and dismantling of the Church era, the the rise of an antichrist empire, a Babylon empire, a new world

  • @ericanthony4753
    @ericanthony4753 3 роки тому +3

    What a his story cover up. These buildings were here before the fair ...
    There is 0 evidence of any of it being build for the fair. Hope u wake up bro

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 3 роки тому +1

      Go to the History museum on the site of the Fairgrounds. There are plenty of photos and the plans of how it all came together. It's fun to learn new things!

    • @courtneyb4097
      @courtneyb4097 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, there is. It's right there for you to see in the Missouri History Museum including plans and photos of it happening. Who are you suggesting made them?

    • @alaingadbois2276
      @alaingadbois2276 2 роки тому

      Actually there is 0 evidence for anything you are claiming. It all comes down to « I don’t believe it, I don’t understand it therefore it has to be a lie ».

  • @nl18678
    @nl18678 3 роки тому

    I call bs