Real 1893 Chicago Exposition

* See also Anachro-Fail
* See also Real World
* See also Glossary#Staff
==World's Columbian Exposition of 1893==
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Panic of 1893
1893 A Major Depression ( the worst upto that time in America ) started in 1893.
Signs already were visible of the US economy weakening the year before ( The Exposition was thought up by business boosters in Chicago to help bring money into Chicago's flagging economy. )
One of the first clear signs of trouble came on February 20, 1893 when the Reading Railroad went into receivership.
As a result of the panic, stock prices declined. Five hundred banks closed, fifteen thousand businesses failed, and numerous farms ceased operation. The unemployment rate hit 25% in Pennsylvania, 35% in New York, and 43% in Michigan. London financial panic cause foreign investors to sell in the American market.
A series of bank failures followed, and the Northern Pacific Railway, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad 'failed'. This was followed by the bankruptcy of many other companies. In total over 15,000 companies and 500 banks, many of them in the West, failed.
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A Simple Indicator of 'The Times' Relevant to Columbia's Founding :
At the (REAL) 1893 Worlds Fair, a question was asked of the attendees: "What do you think will be the city’s biggest problem in 100 years ?" The answer was "What will we do with all the horse dung ?" ( It actually was a big problem in real cities, and had led to using Horsecars, then Cablecars, and then Trolleys, and finally Subways. ) THAT was The Technical World which Fink the Supposed-Super-Scientist knew about.
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Isabella.jpg|Queen Isabella paid for Columbus's first expedition
Bankcheck.jpg|Bank Check from around that Era
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Ferris.jpg|Ferris Wheel
1888Gents.jpg|Typical clothing
KitchExpo.jpg|The Technology Building was one of the largest at the Fair
USSIllinois.jpg|1893 Columbian Exposition - A mockup with the state name of where the fair was held - Chicago.
BattleshipIllinois.jpg|Mockup - constructed like the Exposition buildings out of "staff"(plaster and burlap) and wood framing
Expo93.jpg|"White City" because they used WHITE Paint over the plaster and lathe buildings
1893ExpositionDedication.jpg|Half of Columbia coulda fit in that ...
HighTechnology.jpg|Things like this WOULD have been shown at the real Exposition
1893thing.jpg|Big Electric Lighting thanks to Westinghouse.
RailroadToThe1893Fair.jpg|The Chicago Mainline RR Station which fed people into the 1893 Exposition
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S_Rocket_1829.jpg|Railroad History had a prominent place in the Exhibition
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Not Actually from the 1893 Exposition :
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Other REAL Expositions :
Exposition1889.jpg|1889 - Note the size of people standing there
ExpoUni1900Paris.jpg|1900 Looks like something that might've been in Rapture
TheOverseersWalkupHere.jpg|Products were one of the keys things shown at Expositions
1939WF.jpg|1939 - IF Comstock was supposed to be able to 'look into the future', then why not THIS for Columbia ????
Whatcolumbia1900_2.jpg|Once the temporality built Exposition buildings were no longer needed they were torn down before they fell down
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1893 Exposition Story :
Description of actual buildings done for the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition : "All these buildings were decidedly neoclassical, lathered with plaster of Paris, and painted a chalky white, thus bestowing the moniker of “White City” on the main exposition buildings"
Idea - Sander Cohen's "The White Theater" ( an alternate, might-have-been vision ... LOTS of gorgeous plaster ... )
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1893tech.jpg|RR line taking people to the Exposition within Chicago
Intramural2.jpg|Intramural train loop end for continuous run 3 miles and back around edges of 1893 Columbian Exposition
Intramural.jpg|Intramural electric train system used within/around edges of the 1893 Exposition in Chicago
Electric Intermural Railway for 1893 Columbian Exposition :
An actual transportation system taking people to the the 1893 Columbian Exposition ( from the Chicago and the main transportation hub ) -- instead of some illogical contrived game element created mostly for a promised but degenerated game combat element).
SO Getting to Columbia ?? :
'Barges' if used would be a choke point for people wanting to see the 'Show City' Flying Columbia. 
Moored ( forced to be over Lake Michigan for safety from the bits falling off ) - near the pier with the (real) Moving Walkway, it might be logical to have a proper 'Skyway' ( with passenger transport booths ) leading up into Columbia. Many people could just ride that to tour around Columbia, with a paid option to actually get off and walk around.
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Actual THEME of the Exposition :
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A company scheme ( it is a investment stock certificate ) to organize people (a trip) going to the 1893 Exposition from LA with a 'Christmas fund'-like gradual 'pay in' subscription mechanism ( Looks like it was started 2 years earlier (1891) to allow the people going time to accumulate the required trip amount ).
The Trip included trainfare, meals, hotel, tickets for 6 days per person, with guides, theater tickets, etc ... (The Stock investors were paying all the overhead costs to Organize the trip for people).
This investment means that people who invested in the whole Stock project expected some profits (and in a short term -- upto the time of the Fair in 1893)
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The REAL 1893 Exposition Had A Moving Walkway :
On a pier out into the Great lake. The 1900 Exposition in Paris had a better one.
Something at the actual 1893 Exposition except sideline to the edge of the fair. Columbia having 'moving' sidewalks might have been ALOT better than the farcical skyline rollercoaster-like thing they minimized/downgraded/degenerated into patheticness.
Columbia coulda had a citywide system like this (a proper thing of the future) ... Oops, the Game engine couldn't support vehicles sufficiently for this (( Sad, no Flying Wings 4 U when U B in a Floating City )). Canned level transition sequences and pre-plotted vehicle movements were OK - that's nice and simple to script in that old Game Engine.
Unfortunately, a moving walkway also requires a fairly regularized street layout. That ran contrary to the Higgledee-Piggledee 'Wow-izoidal' irregular building placement and irregular level changes ( maze-like levels allow handy game viewblocks, and for guiding of the steers/cattle (you) along the game's linear plot path -- towards the next abattoir ). It's sad that the whole Skyline "Flying through the huge floating city" E3 Game Industry Promotionals may have been a Scam from the very firstBig Columbia Skyway Shown in Promotional Trailer : JUST A SCAM ? Levine KNEW at the Time that what they showed would not run on the targeted Console systems, and Not even On more powerful PCs in Real Time. What was show were mockups and choreographed/scripted scenes for the Promo Content. Basically a LIE/FRAUD and caused disappointment for many Players expecting more than the glorified Platform Game that was released..
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Exposition-built Columbia is Made of Chickenwire and Stucco, Covered in White Paint ???
1893 Exposition - it (like all expositions) needing to be quickly and cheaply built. 
Yes. It was done with Plaster mixed with Fiber; A product called "Staff". It was moldable, nailable, and very handy for creating elaborate temporary structures. Wood frames and lathing would be underneath to provide sufficient support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_(building_material)
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The Infamous Mass Murderer preyed on a number of Exposition Tourists. It is too bad that THIS aspect could not have been part of the Game
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== REAL CITY (Of The Period) ==
Simply had to 'google' what REAL cities look like ( But then Columbia is really some strangely imagined Flying Cult Compound ).
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Pan American Exposition 1915 :
"The buildings were constructed from temporary materials, primarily a combination of plaster and burlap fiber." I recall the remaining landmark Palace of Fine Arts in SF was rebuilt AFTER the fair in concrete and stone.
The temporary construction that was used for these expositions allowed the construction to be done cheaply and quickly ( the equivalent work, if done for permanent structures, would take years and lots more $$$ ). The first Columbia (for 1893) would have been made similarly, and would also be complicated by all the Floaty stuff ( particularly with that ridiculously short time the hack writers have the game's Timeline specify ).
Maybe in Columbia they used quantum plaster ?? ( was quantum plaster what Sander Cohen snorted, and re-animate corpses to make into his Plaster-coated Spider Splicers ?? )
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A Little TIME Math :
The "Battle of Wounded Knee" (massacre) , December 29, 1890 ( remember Booker allegedly 17 (?) ... )
The 1893 Columbian Exposition opened May 1, 1893, closed October 30, 1893
So that's just 3 years span to get Booker/Comstock in his Prophesying Religious role, planning Columbia the 'Flying whatzit', technologized, designed, funded and built ( and all by a teenager ? )
This is primary narrative stuff for Infinite BS. So with such strange too-loose ideas about spans of Time like this, it does NOT bode well for anything else they have in the game.
Dey Smoked Dope Much ? ( If anybody working at that game studio ever checked to see how flawed their story event timings were, nobody bothered/dared to Correct it. Individual "neat ideas" that don't really fit together are actually 'Stupid ideas' - when they are rammed-together/combined and baked into a kludge ).
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==Other (Real) 1893 Events==
1893 M. Ghandi is thrown off a train for attempting to ride in First-Class
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You might find in Rapture stuff from the 1939 World Fair ( and the simultaneous Golden Gate International Exposition on the West Coast) as symbols of the forward looking ideals that Ryan's Philosophy emphasized. )
Worlds Fairs always had their mementos/giftshop commemorative items. Probably none would be seen IN Columbia ( what would be the point ? And they might stink of 'Sodom Below' to the people there anyway by the game's time ).
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REAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY LIT THE 1893 Exposition
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A Simple Indicator of 'The Times' Relevant to Columbia's Founding :
At the 1893 Worlds Fair a question was asked of the attendees : "What do you think will be the city’s biggest problem in 100 years ?" 
The answer was : "What will we do with all the horse dung ?"
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Built upon new land filled along the Lake Michigan. Look at all those displays the real Exposition had. Columbia might have been a 'Show City' ( original for the exposition ), but what a tiny fraction of what the game shows could only have fit in. You can see here how BIG the real Exposition grounds and buildings were.
A floating Coney Island perhaps ? Where the key element was "ITS FLOATING, ISN'T THAT GREAT !!!", and not much else that wasn't already seen present below On the Ground. This was very early (1893), and any subsequent development of technology ( or anything else interesting ) would NOT HAVE EXISTED to show off yet. The builders would have had enough trouble just making a tiny floating exhibit ( limited by time and money ).
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Having a 'LOOK INTO THE FUTURE' be made for 1912 - To have shown a more Futuristic and 'Far Seeing' LOOK to Columbia !!!!
THAT, Instead of just copying most of the style from the rest of the existing historic 1893 Exposition ... ( which would have bored the visitors and made many want to go see the Ferris Wheel instead ). Several famous architects at the time actually denounced the Neo-Classicism selected for the REAL Fair as being backward/antiquated.
IMAGINE THAT - Art Deco used for a game !!! ( A much better link to Rapture than that feeble Vigors crap they pulled ). Art Deco stylings definitely would have STOOD OUT in 1893 - and even in 1912 ( We coulda had Booker comment about that. I would actually suggest THIS for an MMORPG Alternate REDO of Columbia ).
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