Welcome aboard Pink Monterale. I'm your pilot, Michelle Vaya Deli, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah

Vaya Deli.

Hey everybody.

Last episode, we started to talk about the White City, the World's Columbian Exposition of

1894, the greatest world's fair of all time or at least until 1964. We had just started talking about the White City proper.

In this episode, we'll talk more about the White City itself and some of the lasting influences of the fair.

We're going to start with Japan.

Japan had the only tidy room inside the Fine Arts Building, as I said last time, and they had an entire island. tidy buildings built there and a whole garden. The garden still exists today.

Frank Lloyd Wright would go there and draw the buildings and the plants and it was a huge

influence on his work. I can see that there is a lot of the Zen and sort of the Shinto leanings in his architecture.

Absolutely.

The buildings were left there because they were so beloved. weren't torn down with the rest but during

World War II some racist jerks committed arson and burned them to the ground.

All the plants are still there as well as a piece or two of stoneware, the little stone temples that are about a foot high.

And you can walk on the wooded island today. The bridges from the fair are still there and beautiful.

Seize some of these plants and flowers from Japan.

They brought over ones that they knew would survive the Chicago winters because they

survived the Japanese winters. There was also a section of state pavilions as well as the international ones.

Each state was trying to out do each other.

I mean, they built castles, they built mines, they built all sorts of things except Vermont who built a small cider mill.

California had their own exhibit. The star of this was a night sitting on a horse made

entirely of prunes and he was named Sir Prune.

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