Pink Monorail Manufacturing the Magic Ep 4: France throws down the gauntlet

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In the fourth installment of this new educational series, Noe & Shelly Valladolid look at even more early World’s Fairs. With the focus this time around being on French advances in themed entertainment. In this episode, listeners will learn about: • Why the Exposition Universelle de Paris of 1899 dwarfed all others • How the temporary Eiffel Tower led to the discovery of gamma rays • The problem with “human zoos” • Why the Tower’s most vehement critic dined there every day • Which themed international buildings served as a precursor for EPCOT’s World Showcase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink Monterale. I'm your pilot, Michelle Via De lead, and with me is my co-pilot Noah
0:11.5	via Deleid. Hey everybody.
0:13.1	On our last trip we visited the Exposition Universal de Paris 1889,
0:18.6	which gave the world the Eiffel Tower.
0:20.8	What could top that?
0:22.0	What if we made it spin?
0:24.0	Now that's a great way to get somebody's attention.
0:27.0	America's answer to the Paris Exposition of 1889 would be to celebrate an important
0:35.9	milestone in America. Columbus sailed the deep blue sea in 1493.
0:41.1	Okay, but that was not the year this happened. This was 400 years after this happened.
0:48.0	Well, no, Columbus didn't sail the Deep Blue Sea in 1493.
0:53.7	Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
0:57.4	But it took an extra year to build the exposition and so they had it in in 1893
1:06.7	Okay, so they had to change the song just for the exposition so if you get confused and you hear the other poem as I did when I was a child and didn't know where it came from that's where it came from.
1:21.0	Why then was the exposition a year late and why is it tied with the
1:26.4	1964 World's Fair as the Greatest World's Fair of all time?
1:31.0	Probably because it was the Greatest world's fair of all time.
1:34.0	What does it have to do with Disney and theme parks?
1:37.8	Let's find out.
1:38.8	Let's find out. Let's find out.
1:39.8	The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
1:46.2	In the late 1880s, people in the US started talking about throwing an expo there
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