On an excursion in 2006, I found a solid porcelain glazed hand of a statue buried in the side of a creek bed in Forest Park, St. Louis, the site of the WF 1904. There is nothing temporary about it. Most of the buildings that were "built for the purpose of the fair" only to be destroyed, were buried within the boundaries of the massive park. The Ferris Wheel axle has yet to be found. I believe these buildings existed way before 1904 and the Expos were a way to fool the gen pop. Jon Levi is excellent at explaining it all. The StL Art Museum still exists and it is a stunning fixture on a huge hill. There is no way people with horse and cart transported massive slabs of granite through muddy roads. Trains, perhaps? But not wagons as we are led to believe.
I still can’t wrap my mind around it, and I’ve come to accept a lot of things as truths. Who built them? Where did they go? Where they simply abandoned? Where are the historical records? The documentation of their discovery out in the middle of nowhere? Mud floods, how? How many of these are there/were?
The who, what, where, why, and how doesn’t add up!
On an excursion in 2006, I found a solid porcelain glazed hand of a statue buried in the side of a creek bed in Forest Park, St. Louis, the site of the WF 1904. There is nothing temporary about it. Most of the buildings that were "built for the purpose of the fair" only to be destroyed, were buried within the boundaries of the massive park. The Ferris Wheel axle has yet to be found. I believe these buildings existed way before 1904 and the Expos were a way to fool the gen pop. Jon Levi is excellent at explaining it all. The StL Art Museum still exists and it is a stunning fixture on a huge hill. There is no way people with horse and cart transported massive slabs of granite through muddy roads. Trains, perhaps? But not wagons as we are led to believe.
I still can’t wrap my mind around it, and I’ve come to accept a lot of things as truths. Who built them? Where did they go? Where they simply abandoned? Where are the historical records? The documentation of their discovery out in the middle of nowhere? Mud floods, how? How many of these are there/were?
The who, what, where, why, and how doesn’t add up!
What a find! Awesome! The World's Fair's ferris wheels were HUGE! The carriages the size of buses.