I was going to call this era “the long nineteenth century” but it might just be “modernity.” When that category no longer enticed and attracted, little was left for a World’s Fair to display. 1851-1986. A good run and a momentous era, now 40 years in the past.
Rebecca Spang
My dad just noted that my grandparents (from Louisville) were married on this day in 1939 - and then went to the 1939 World’s Fair in NY.
In 1962, dad and grandma came to Seattle for the World’s fair.
In 1986, dad took my brother and I to Vancouver for the Worlds Fair there.
All three by train.
