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re: Chicago Worlds Fair 1893: A 'RESET' narrative created to hide past History & Timeline?
Posted on 11/16/21 at 11:06 am to Liberator
Posted on 11/16/21 at 11:06 am to Liberator
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So, the main takeaway from "The Devil in the White City" is a narrative that reinforces the notion that the entire fair's construction was indeed "temporary", ergo "unsafe"?
If so, I'm not buying it.
It's been ~10 years since I've read it, but yes. It really was a beautiful site, but it was built with cheap materials, on very swampy ground, and with an insanely tight deadline.
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Posted on 11/16/21 at 11:53 am to THRILLHO
"Swampy Ground" -- CORRECT
"Tight Deadline" -- CORRECT
"Cheap Material" -- mostly INCORRECT
It has been researched and discovered that organizers hurriedly constructed some flimsy structures and mixed them in with the existing Romanesque palaces and architecture to help cover their narrative. I
Above are photos of 4 buildings that still exist 128 years later. They were constructed out of the SAME material (granite) as the most of the others that were destroyed.
"Tight Deadline" -- CORRECT
"Cheap Material" -- mostly INCORRECT
It has been researched and discovered that organizers hurriedly constructed some flimsy structures and mixed them in with the existing Romanesque palaces and architecture to help cover their narrative. I
Above are photos of 4 buildings that still exist 128 years later. They were constructed out of the SAME material (granite) as the most of the others that were destroyed.
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