Jon Levi also does some really good videos on YouTube ( sorry) about the world's fairs. We've absolutely been lied to about our history. People on horse and buggy didn't build those elaborate buildings only to be torn down. They were merely inheritors of a great r eset. Their predecessors were far more advanced. Old elaborate buildings like cathedrals and castles are antiquitech
Most of those World's Fair structures were as substantial as stage sets. They were only intended for that event. This one in Balboa Park, San Diego, lasted quite a while, long enough for me to see it as a child. https://www.balboapark.org/about/history
And it was disappointing inside, not nearly the palace it appeared to be.
They were made of horsehair and plaster. Somewhere I have the centennial issue of the Magazine of the Midlands on the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition held on Omaha Nebraska in 1898. I should scan it and post it. The building materials were mentioned there.
Yes. We used to have an old house built in 1910, and this was a common type of inner wall. The framing boards were covered with lath boards, the plaster was mixed with hair or thread or straw to prevent cracking, then pressed onto the lath wall firmly so the plaster would be forced through the gaps. It would sag downward a little before drying and make a little hook of plaster on the back to help hold it up. It works--really nasty to tear out and put up sheetrock.
You are in for so much more...welcome to the true great awakening. God is.
Jon Levi also does some really good videos on YouTube ( sorry) about the world's fairs. We've absolutely been lied to about our history. People on horse and buggy didn't build those elaborate buildings only to be torn down. They were merely inheritors of a great r eset. Their predecessors were far more advanced. Old elaborate buildings like cathedrals and castles are antiquitech
Cool topic. Maybe you'd like this guy's vids check his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xHgSx7EN9w
Can't believe I lived in Asheville for 12 years and never went to Biltmore. Jon Levi also does some good videos on these topics
I recommend this as well.
Most of those World's Fair structures were as substantial as stage sets. They were only intended for that event. This one in Balboa Park, San Diego, lasted quite a while, long enough for me to see it as a child. https://www.balboapark.org/about/history And it was disappointing inside, not nearly the palace it appeared to be.
They were made of horsehair and plaster. Somewhere I have the centennial issue of the Magazine of the Midlands on the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition held on Omaha Nebraska in 1898. I should scan it and post it. The building materials were mentioned there.
Yes. We used to have an old house built in 1910, and this was a common type of inner wall. The framing boards were covered with lath boards, the plaster was mixed with hair or thread or straw to prevent cracking, then pressed onto the lath wall firmly so the plaster would be forced through the gaps. It would sag downward a little before drying and make a little hook of plaster on the back to help hold it up. It works--really nasty to tear out and put up sheetrock.