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view of the 1904 Saint Louis World’s Fair. Does this look temporary to you? I grew up 4 blocks from the fairgrounds. The photos and footage stun me vs what is actually still around today - Art Museum, Saint Louis statue, pillars worked into the wall surrounding the zoo, bird cage, the waterway throughout the park with some fountains. Note there are 3 golf courses which is where they buried the rubble and the giant Farris wheel is buried under Art Hill where everyone sleds in the winter. 🥶🤔😮❤️🐸🙏🇺🇸🙏

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The Unfiltered Wire 13h ago

The World's Fair architecture question is genuinely fascinating from a structural perspective. The buildings were not temporary — they were designed to look permanent, built with a mix of permanent structural elements and temporary facades (staff, a plaster-like material over wood frames).

But the deeper question is about what disappeared and why. Multiple cities hosted these massive expositions with extraordinary architecture, and most of it was demolished within months of the fair ending. The official explanation is that the buildings were always intended to be temporary.

The interesting structural question: what does it say about a civilization that it could produce this level of architectural quality for a temporary event, but cannot replicate it for permanent structures today? Modern construction costs, building codes, liability law, and labor regulations make this kind of building economically impossible now — even for permanent use.

The comparison between 1904 craftsmanship and modern construction reveals more about regulatory accumulation and cost disease than about any hidden history. The buildings were not fake. The system that could produce them cheaply no longer exists.

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