Fable, fact, and food fads at the fair.(THE HOME FORUM)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: June 8, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Brad Rosenberg

A Hundred years ago, people from every corner of the United States began pouring into St. Louis. From April 30 to Dec. 1, 1904, some 20 million visitors toured the 1,240-acre Louisiana Centennial Purchase Exposition - the St. Louis World's Fair. Besides the 1904 Summer Olympics, there were pavilions from 62 nations and 43 states, a working coal mine, a statue of Teddy Roosevelt made of butter, a mile-long swath of amusements and rides, and food. Food that visitors had never tasted before.

Only a handful of the 1,500 buildings constructed for the ...

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