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re: 1884 Cotton Centennial Celebration (World's Fair) in New Orleans – tl,dr, photos
Posted on 7/2/17 at 7:22 am to LSUgusto
Posted on 7/2/17 at 7:22 am to LSUgusto
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One of its biggest ovations was when they struck up "Dixie"
Better destroy all these pictures and everything else that was at this fair.
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Posted on 7/2/17 at 7:23 am to LSUgusto
Great pics and write up. Wish we still had these.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 8:15 am to GetBackToWork
quote:Probably won't be anytime soon. Much like its 1984 successor, this World's Fair was also a financial failure.
Wish we still had these.
The fair was still under construction when it opened, giving it poor national reviews in its early days. Even though it was highly praised once it got fully up and running, those first reports helped stifle its expected attendance. Despite bailouts from the state and federal government, the fair ended in debt anyway. In typical Louisiana fashion, the state treasurer was founded to have pocketed a bunch of money from the event, and he fled the country.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 8:27 am to GetBackToWork
Once the buildings were disassembled, some of the timbers were used to construct some of the large homes on nearby Henry Clay Ave.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 8:50 am to Fatal Conceit
That cotton didn't pick itself
Posted on 7/2/17 at 8:53 am to LSUgusto
Man, I love things like this. History is always cool but when it's just dry facts from a textbook, it can be hard to relate to or visualize. Thanks OP. If the OT was just boobs and stuff like this, I'd be a happy man.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 8:56 am to DecadePlusLurker
Excellent OP.
Too bad there's a segment of our society that would destroy any and all that would remain from events like this.
Too bad there's a segment of our society that would destroy any and all that would remain from events like this.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 9:21 am to LSUgusto
That's almost guaranteed to be China. The flag was the official standard for the Qing dynasty
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:53 pm to EZE Tiger Fan
Great post!
It's amazing to see what Nola used to be like.
It's amazing to see what Nola used to be like.
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:29 pm to LSUgusto
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Wish we still had these.
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Probably won't be anytime soon. Much like its 1984 successor, this World's Fair was also a financial failure.
World Expositions actually do still exist. However, as LSUgusto stated, the '84 World Exposition was a disaster, financially speaking. As such, it was the last one held in the United States.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:33 pm to LSUgusto
You ever look at photos from pre-1920s and think about how quiet every day life would have been? Life is dominated so much nowadays by the hum of cars, trucks, planes, a/c units, and other machines/appliances. None of that would have really existed back then outside of small pockets in urban areas.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:34 pm to Fatal Conceit
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No black people?
Who do you think was around back peddling on the bikes to keep the lights on?
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:36 pm to LSUgusto
great post 
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:42 pm to LSUgusto
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:44 pm to StringedInstruments
Did you see on Smithsonian, the other night, Saturday, I believe. It was a show called the Color of America, it was all film footage shot in the 1920s and colorized. REALLY cool.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:47 pm to SamuelClemens
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I went with my 3rd grade class on a field trip to the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair in NOLA
I graduated high school that May. We all got the season passports and went almost every night, at least for me from late June until the end.
Most of the bars and places might let you in under 18, I was too young looking and couldn't get into Jed's or Sheila's, but since the German Biergarden served food, I could get in there. We had a blast.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:51 pm to StringedInstruments
I think it would have been noisier. Without AC your windows would be open constantly. You'd hear horses, street vendors, kids playing in the street, etc.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:53 pm to LSUgusto
There is more information about the organ on John and Kathleen DeMaio's website NewOrleansChurches.com. On their page for the Immaculate Conception, there's another page just about this instrument. It was originally built by Pilcher for the Expo, but was rebuilt by Rivé and re-badged as an M.P. Moeller.
1884 Louisiana Cotton Centennial Exposition Organ
In a couple photos, you can see the lath and plaster wall built to hide the instrument from view, and the now nearly deplorable condition of the remnants.
1884 Louisiana Cotton Centennial Exposition Organ
In a couple photos, you can see the lath and plaster wall built to hide the instrument from view, and the now nearly deplorable condition of the remnants.
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:55 pm to yurintroubl
That sundial in the pic is still at the zoo today.. It was the zoo's main entrance before it's expansion...
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:57 pm to Kafka
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Practical common sense guide book through the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans ... by Daniel W. Perkins
Read it online or DL a copy
nice! I like the way they wrote out things back then
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