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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome aboard Pink Monterale. |
0:07.0 | On your pilot, Michelle Vaya Doolide, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah Vaya Dolid. |
0:11.0 | Hey everybody. |
0:12.0 | In 1904, Meet Me in St Louis was what everybody was singing, celebration of the centennial |
0:17.9 | of the Louisiana Purchase, and the posters were done by Alphonse Mocher. |
0:22.6 | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition was the proper name of it |
0:29.6 | and it ran from April 30th all the way to December 1st. |
0:33.1 | It costs $15 million, which was equal to $489 million today. |
0:38.4 | There were 60 countries, 40 of 45 US-S-Sason territories, 19.9 million people. |
0:45.0 | 1803 was the Louisiana Purchase. |
0:47.1 | So they delayed it a year because of constructions and delays |
0:50.4 | for the Centennial. |
0:51.5 | Yes, again. It happens. The annual St. Louis |
0:55.0 | Exposition, which was a local exposition, was not held that year. This was |
0:59.0 | Yowald instead. Today the fairgrounds are Forest Park and Washington University. |
1:04.0 | There's 1,200 acres, the largest fair in the area to date. |
1:08.0 | 1500 buildings, 75 miles of walkways. |
1:12.0 | Industries, cities, private organizations, theater troops, and music |
1:16.7 | schools took up most of the buildings. There were over 50 concession type amusements in |
1:21.6 | The Pike, which was their midway. See Long Beach pike I put a note to myself we had a amusement park here called the pike |
1:27.8 | Yes we did now it's a shopping center and it's really really depressing They had educational and scientific displays, and by scientific displays we mean human zoos. |
1:37.5 | Exhibits imaginary travel to distant lands, history, local stuff, palaces again, the palace of agriculture, horticulture, and |
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