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  1. Tram used at the 1935 Chicago World's Fair. - Facebook

    Dec 28, 2023 · Following that are Circus World Museum coaches with their performers and clowns on board. At the end of the train are all the circus wagons which will be used in the parade. The third …

  2. Sky Ride - Wikipedia

    It was located near Northerly Island, but was demolished after the Fair, having carried 4.5 million passengers. The Sky Ride had a 1,850-foot (560 m) span and two 628-foot (191 m) tall towers, …

  3. A Century of Progress – In Color and In Motion - The Trolley Dodger

    Feb 20, 2015 · Five experimental houses from the fair were moved by barge across Lake Michigan to Beverly Shores, Indiana in 1935, where they remain today, now listed on the National Register of …

  4. Travel and Transport Building - chicagology

    It has been built for the Studebaker exhibit at the World’s Fair of 1934 in Chicago. Inside is a complete motion picture theatre seating 80 people where the story of the automobile is told, especially the …

  5. Remembering the Future: Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair

    Feb 20, 2019 · This air tram structure ferried people across Burnham Harbor from one side of the fair to the other, at the height of 210 feet. The towers between which riders were transported, however, …

  6. Sky Ride, 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois. Carried 4.5M ... - Reddit

    Feb 8, 2022 · But for me it was worse, as I understood first that the year of 1935 had been destroyed. I don't even know what that could possibly mean, but it sounds like a cool concept for a time travel …

  7. On a national level, critics and historians regard the San Diego Fairs of 1935-1936 as an interlude between major World’s Fairs in Chicago in 1933 and in San Francisco and New York City in 1939. It …

  8. San Diego California-Pacific International Exposition 1935-1936"

    San Diego 1935-6 was not sanctioned, unlike the first truly sanctioned event that same year in Brussels. There's some that contest the notion that the fair was international, although it was in a nominal sense.

  9. Chicago World’s Fair – Century of Progress 1933-1934 - The Vintage Inn

    One description of the fair noted that the world, “then still mired in the malaise of the Great Depression, could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology.” …

  10. The Old Globe Theatre built for the 1935 Exposition was modeled after an Elizabethan theater built in London in 1599. The Theatre burned to the ground in March 1978 and was replaced by a similar …