Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations
Deranged Robot
A 'mentally disturbed' robot at the World Fair in San Diego, 1935/36. A robot provides entertainment at the California Pacific Exposition in San Diego, [but] instead of giving the planned speech, it suddenly began to speak in a boisterous cabaret voice and afterwards emitted the sounds of an orchestra. After a little bewilderment the cause for this 'mental confusion' was discovered: due to a circuit error, the robot had transmitted the program of the exhibition's broadcast station. The photo shows the robot during a thorough inspection of its speech organs and its circuits.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 02, 2024 -
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Category: Robots, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
Phare du Monde
The Wikipedia page.Source for the illustration, where the text and image may be enlarged.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 04, 2023 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1930s, Europe
HemisFair 1968
These types of ancient festivals seem all but extinct, making them seem weird to our 2023 eyes. Will they ever happen again?The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 09, 2023 -
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Category: Regionalism, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1960s, Nostalgia, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
The Queen of Candy
The Queen's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 18, 2022 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Royalty, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, Candy, 1960s
The Giant Typewriter of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Visit this blog for tons more photos and the whole fascinating history of this device. I will say that the author misses mentioning one iconic way that the notion of a giant typewriter remained afloat in the culture. Any Boomer knows that it figured in a classic Batman adventure.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 20, 2022 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, Twentieth Century
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