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the fair had everything. When you tired of the auto racing, you could always watch the camels room. That is, if you weren't chasing after the Penny Tasker for gawking at the movie stars and celebrities Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, for instance, or listen to John Philip

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Sousa lead the band in the court of Universe. There were daredevils to amaze you. Somewhere in the water and others in the air. There was plenty of culture and history, too beautiful girls and beautiful animal. It was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to San

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Francisco. Yeah, and then Okay. Uh huh, Yeah, Mhm. Mhm. It had been a very busy century. First, the city had been shaken down, and then it burned down. And while the

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ST Francis was still a burned out shell, plans for the exposition were being made in the Little Saint Francis. A temporary hotel on Union Square. The site selected was this mudhole out at Harborview near what was called how Howell By nineteen twelve, San Francisco was nearly

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we built. You could ride up Market Street for five either in the jitney or a streetcar or get a nine course dinner for a dollar out of harbor view. That year, President Taft turned the first spade of Earth to the cheers of thousands who gathered for

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the groundbreaking ceremony on from what was once a swamp. A sunset city of failed travertine with green brown domes began to rise E. It stretched from Chestnut Street to the water from Venice Avenue to Fort Point In the Presidio, A marvelous array of cloistered palace is

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filled with treasures of the world. The sheltered courtyards and arcades protected visitors from the bay winds and summer fogs separated from the rest of the world opened only to the waters of the Golden Gate and the marine hills beyond. It truly was a world apart, a

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world of wonders, of life, an innocent world. For by May of nineteen fifteen, the Lusitania had been sunk and we would never be so young. So innocents again. Opening day, February twentieth, nineteen fifteen, two hundred thousand people stood inside the Scots street gate in the South

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Garden. They waited for President Wilson to press a Golden Telegraph key. It sent a wireless message three thousand miles to an antenna on the tower of jewels. This signal started the wheels of the giant diesel engine in the Palace of Machinery rotating and the fountain of

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energy gush for us on a magical summer started for the people of San Francisco. If you went to the movies that year, you might have seen this trailer advertising the Panama Pacific International Exposition, along with Blanche Sweet and Thomas Mayen in The Secret Sins and the

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latest chapter of Pearl Whites. New Serial. The Exports of Elaine Here, The spirit of San Francisco mixes the gold of the poppies with the memories of nineteen hundred six and never forgetting how the world once befriended the ruined city, creates a wonderful fairy land and invites

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the world to come. Insurance. This charming and naive film helps to explain the tremendous emotional life the city received from the fair why it has remained so vivid a memory After all these years, the exposition was really a symbol, a triumph from Sign to the world

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that San Francisco had risen from the ashes way had not only rebuilt the city itself. We had even built a second city, a city of jewels. The exhibition was the first to have complete artistic supervision, even the colors of each building were chosen from a master

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palette, and the sand on the path was burned in a kill to turn it the same color as the travel team walls of the palace is. This'll was the first acquisition with indirect lighting, the first in which the flowers of the gardens were completely changed overnight

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as they faded. Indeed, John McClaren's garden for the talk of the horticultural world, hundreds of full grown trees were transported from all over Northern California to the Exposition Ground. The fair was a crowning artistic achievement of the city that knows how the directors of the exposition

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were terribly aware of the war that raged in Europe. It had had very nearly wrecked their plans for any foreign exhibits and building. It took all the efforts of the directors to convince the nations of the world to participate it all. But by the opening day,

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thirty elegant pavilions line the avenues of nations. Despite this, the shadow of the war hung over the fairgrounds, as if in a premonition, the light seemed brighter, the music more gauge. The world was shrinking. We were becoming more a part of it each day, and we

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sensed it. The tower of Jews with a thing alive on it hung one hundred and twenty five polished jewels of bohemian glass backed by bits of mirror shrouded by fog. They gleaned mysteriously in the sun, caught by every breeze, the shimmered in sparkled at night in

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the glare of a thousand arch lance. They danced and shown like a marvelous colored son. Okay, Theo Exposition was huge. Like all world affairs. People walked until their feet her. Then they rode in the over fair train traps horse carts. Wicker were carry all on the

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famous fragile train. While most people had become pretty blase about automobiles, Theo Airplane still was the new thrills Lincoln be. She was the first arrow, not after all. He had even flown through the Palace of Machinery in nineteen fourteen as a promotion stunt. It was the

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world's first indoor airplane flight be. She usually flew a biplane, But these films show him flying a new and very daring Mona plane. And minutes after this film was taken beach, he crashed into the Golden Gate. He was given a hero's funeral, and the exposition was

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in mourning for days. Art Smith, with the next here When the air mhm most afternoons. He thrilled the crowds by just looping over the marina green, You know, but e But at night, with the moon over the golden gate of the background,

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he attached flares to the fragile, linen covered wings of his plane. E, he was absolutely incredible. Daredevil. You bet your life okay? Yeah. Thank you. All right. Oh, yeah. Anyone could see what art saw from a narrow scope for just a quarter. There it is, whirling

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around two hundred thirty feet in the air, designed by Joseph Strauss, who would later designed the Golden Gate Bridge. It was the top thrill of the zone zone. Was joy unconfined? This is Toyland grown up a fourteen acre playground for the showroom. Too many people. This

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is their only memory of the fair. The sensation of the zone was Stella. Every world's fair has his queen. Little Egypt. Sally ran, but zone had Stella and no one who ever saw her forgot her charmed. She was so really that she even seemed to breathe.

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That's a lot of loveliness for a dime. A to the opposite end of the fairground stood everybody's favorite building Bernard May Becks. Wonderful palace of fine arts. It stood reflected in its lagoon as if it were a dream solidified even before the exposition was over, the

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people of times this were demanding that the Palace of fine arts be preserved. This colorful pageant was staged to help publicize their effort. There is a bold, imaginative quality about this pageant. Here is a lost art lost along with our innocents for who would take all

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this seriously today as it was taken in the fall of nineteen fifteen. Yeah, Surely this is how May Beck wanted us to remember his talent. Millions of visitors came to the exposition, a relative newcomer to the movies,

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but already a star came over from miles where he was making to really comedies for SN A Charlie Chaplin on three famous men met at the Palace in Machinery. Henry Ford, Thomas Citizen and Luther Burbank. Foreign showed his friends the Complete auto Assembly plan. Burbank displayed

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his Texas feeder, a spineless cactus developed for cattle feed. They then saw other wonders of the age, including an automatic post office, while Teddy Roosevelt waited for them in the car. It was a time when secure in the past, people could face the future without any

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fear. Mrs. Edison was fascinated, for instance, by New Life saving Device, the baby incubator. These were the only incubators for premature infants on the West Coast at the time, and they saved the lives of several tiny Children born that summer of nineteen fifteen. Madam Human Hike

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was there, and Mabel Norman and Fatty Arbuckle got a free pass from Mayor Raw on the steps of the new city hall. They were at the heights of their careers, unaware of the tragedies that would shatter both their lives. Oh, the

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entire world with San Francisco's door. Yeah, for entertainment. Dancers from each country presented their pope dances. E here, Vikings come ashore on Norwegian days. Pretty girls landed to watch this charming delegation of daffodil girls representing Santa Cruz County. Take the marina

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by storm. E O. Where are they going? To the California Building, of course. Mhm past the Forbidden Mission Garden to grace the Santa Cruz County exhibit. No one has ever for gotten how magnificent the Exposition Waas, and it was beautiful. An indescribable aura of magic filled

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the many courts. Louis Mull guards Tower of abundance brooded over his mysterious court of ages. This strange gothic fantasy was much admired for the deep thought behind its architectures. Yeah, the fountain of the earth, sometimes shrouded by clouds of steam, depicted man's rise from a primordial

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ooze. In nineteen fifteen, you didn't just build a courtyard. You build a way of life inside the sheltered walls. All was serene and calm, but outside all the new excitements of our century of speed were dazzling in a raid They have, Yeah, good

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old number nine wins again and to the victor belong to spoiled a garden Party celebrations. Yeah, okay. The daily list of events was staggering. This stock show competed with the Japanese wrestlers, and a choice had to be made between watching the

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Marines land or entering your child in the baby parade way. One of the great charms of the Panama Pacific International Exposition was that combined all of the blandishments of a country fair with rising sophistication of the young twentieth century. Patriotism

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was running high. E. The most sheriffs visitor was the Liberty Bell brought on a special flat car all the way from Philadelphia. There were parades every day, sometimes several parades every day. Yeah. Good. The fair closed officially on December fourth. Nineteen fifteen. Closing ceremonies

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were filled with emotion, and nearly half a million people wept as the flag was lowered from the Tower of Jews. Theo, Center later, man by marines. Projected patterns of light on great clouds, Esteem thrown into the air from a locomotive painted to look like marble. Okay,

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everyone stayed to watch the lights wandering quietly in the gardens, looking for the last time way. Yeah, the lights finally went out, but no one went home until dawn as the lights went out Something left our youth But but fair has

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endured The beautiful palace of fine arts still stands there, gently crumbling but gently reminding the exposition has lived on in the hearts and memories of every man, woman and child that spent an enchanted summer at the city of Jews A Oh, right. Oh,

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yeah! Mm. Mhm. Yeah.