Pink Monorail Manufacturing the Magic Ep 3: Early World’s Fairs & Expositions

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the third installment of this new educational series, Noe & Shelly Valladolid look back at the first World’s Fairs. More importantly, the impact that these ambitious expositions had on society In this episode, listeners will learn about: Where in London was the Great Exposition staged Which structure at the Great Exposition inspired a popular WDW restaurant What marvels from the Victorian Age were on display during this 5-month-long event Which event held in France just four years later attempted to throw the Great Exposition of London into eclipse Why is the Palais d’Industrie considered Napoleon III’s “ego building” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink Monterale.
0:07.0	Pink Monterale.
0:08.0	I'm your pilot, Shelly Vaya Doleid, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah Vaya Doolid.
0:13.0	Last time on manufacturing the magic,
0:15.0	we talked about early World's Fair's exhibitions and expositions.
0:20.0	We learned that Jules Burns was affected by the wonders of electricity and the first themed buildings in an ancestor of Epcot's World Showcase.
0:31.0	Today we're going to take you to Paris to the exposition to end all
0:34.4	expositions so far. Looks like we're heading back to Paris for the Exposition Universal de Perry 1889.
0:48.0	Wonderful.
0:49.0	There were 32 million visitors.
0:50.5	There were 61,722 exhibitors and about 25,000 were from France.
0:56.7	This is where the Eiffel Tower comes from.
0:58.7	This was France's big comeback after losing the Franco-Prussian War.
1:02.4	It was also the 100th anniversary of the come back after losing the Franco-Prussian War.
1:02.6	It was also the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Best Steel,
1:06.2	which started the French Revolution.
1:08.4	Therefore, many countries that had monarchs boycotted. I can imagine they wouldn't want anything to do with that.
1:15.2	Exactly they didn't want to celebrate overthrowing the monarchy. It was
1:19.6	40 sent teams to get in and some attractions had separate admissions like we had seen in
1:26.6	Philadelphia where you had to pay the 50 cents to go to the Statue of Liberty's hand.
1:31.6	So these had separately ticketed attractions from the main
1:35.4	entrance ticket. It was five francs to climb the Eiffel Tower which was really
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