The 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, known as the White City, was a groundbreaking exhibition where 27 million visitors witnessed an entire city of gleaming white Neoclassical buildings constructed on a swamp in just two years, featuring George Ferris's 264-foot tall Ferris Wheel (invented to rival the Eiffel Tower) and showcasing electric lighting for the first time to many Americans, though most of the city was demolished just six months after the fair ended.
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They Built an Entire City in Two Years — Then Tore It Down ️
Added:I just walked through the entrance and I genuinely thought I had walked into ancient Rome. Everything is [music] white. Everything is huge. This cannot be real. That wheel is 264 feet tall and it was built in 1893. [music] George Ferris literally invented this thing to prove America could match the Eiffel Tower. I think he won. Most of these people have never seen electric light before [music] and right now the entire city is lit up. I can see their faces and they look like they're watching a miracle because they are. There are camels walking through this crowd right now and a brass band and someone selling something called Juicy Fruit gum. I have had three pieces already. I am 264 feet above Chicago right now in a wooden box and I can see a whole white city, the whole of Lake Michigan. I never want to come down, never. [music] The White City costs done. But now I'm thinking even further back, Pompeii, the morning before everything changed. Should I go?
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