Ranking the Weirdest Things at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition put Chicago on the map as a city of arts and extravagance, but in true Victorian fashion it was also filled with a ton of VERY strange attractions and events. Come learn with me about the World's Fair and rank it's odd offerings.
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The Great American Fair by Reid Badger
Chicago By Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America
The World’s Columbian Exposition by Norman Bolotin and Christine Laing
Florida and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 by Stephen Kerber
A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893; by Authority of the Board of Directors by Rossiter Johnson
Remembering the Chicago World's Fair by Russell Lewis
The Century World's fair book for boys and girls; being the adventures of Harry and Philip with their tutor, Mr. Douglass, at the World's Columbian exposition by Tudor Jenks
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair: Their Observations and Triumphs by Charles M Stevens
“Types of Humanity: Some of the Odd People to be Seen at the Fair.” The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois • Sun, Mar 12, 1893, Page 13
“In the White City: Gloom Strides Where Glory Once Vaunted Achievements.” The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois • Mon, Nov 20, 1893, Page 7
“The First Ferris Wheel Still Exists (Mostly),” by Orangebean Indiana orangebeanindiana.com/2021/09...
Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History By Norman D. Anderson
Colorado, Racism, and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by Laura Ruttum Senturia for the Denver Public Library history.denverlibrary.org/new...
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The O'Leary Legend By greatchicagofire.org greatchicagofire.org/oleary-l...
“Madman In Mid-Air,” by The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, September 24, 1893
Kaz being like, "The Victorians loved to make things out of things they shouldn't be made out of" like we didn't have a whole TV show about trying to figure out whether or not something is made of cake.
You have two wolves inside you, except one is a Victorian.
@@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv And the other is cake
@@kamilahmaudsley964 …or is it?
@@MatecaCorp Nah, I'm pretty sure it's an actual tower of sketchily preserved oranges
At least cake is edible, non-toxic, non-flammable, and not radioactive. 😂
As someone who just suffered through working christmas in retail, it is FASCINATING to learn that "being tortured by the one song played endlessly at your crappy retail job" predates the invention of recorded music.
😂 that feeling when your pulse still rises at Christmas music 😂
"I don't want a lot for xmas" 😆
I worked Christmas in toy retail during the Frozen mania 10 years ago or something. It still haunts my nightmares.
"After the Ball" has "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" vibes
No joke, my store speaker system glitched yesterday and played Let It Go six times in a row before someone intervened. In 2024.@@pastpatour
I love how we just skid over 3 reports of finding a fetus on the ground. Like wait what? How common was that at other events?! Now I’m just imagining a Victorian woman giving a tiny squat in her finery like a chicken dropping an egg and walking off like nothing happened.
I know, right? I need context!
Well when you put it like that, it's kinda funny.
Chicago World's Fair Fetus is my new band name
By "fetus", I have to imagine they simply meant "baby", because the alternative is too... strange... to consider.
I need answers cause I thought the same thing!
Glad to see that even in the 1890s, workers were getting infuriated by the playing of the same song over and over. Having just escaped the retail hellhole of Mariah Carey Christmas, it comforts me to know that people 130 years ago felt exactly the same.
lol, back in the 90’s I worked at a mall. I loved helping people purchase Christmas gifts and enjoyed the Christmas track music… except when business was slow. I probably wouldn’t have had such bloody ears had it not been track music. Knowing exactly which song was coming after the next while working in a windowless space was almost like being in some straightjacketed room. Time moved so slowly during those moments.
Its unfortunate that the over abundance of racebaiting social justice rhetoric that u have smothered your otherwise interesting and throughly well researched piece,that u excellent paying special detail on exbibits, inventions and souveniors I especially loved your attempts to include fun authentic verbage that sprinkled throughout your vlogumentary. ( i bless you with this word ) while I appreciate your disgust with the treatment of underrepresented aMericans recieved during the fair you are judging a social culture with the culture of more than 100 years i to the future. It takes away from you impeccable work. Please dont take personally this is constructive critism I value your work and am impress with your caRing heart. The tree most likely btw was fallen perished tree. Also while your clearly announced opinion of the fair being extremely racist which waS not at all. Again, society historically evovles which iz normal, and despite the indoctrinTion you have been fed it was progressive aT the time. I also loved your garb you wore AS well as your guest .you would not be accepted into polite society with out being dressed being more like your friend also.seem weird thT you seem upset by people calling city evil but your own measurement it was rAcist isnt that evil? Just things to conside r
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Pariah Scary needs to go.
You mentioned the Viking ship but you totally forgot the context: see, since it was the *columbian* exposition, the Spanish had built replicas of Christopher Columbus' three ships and had them sailed to Chicago, and the Scandinavians American community was upset because they wanted lief Erikson's discovery acknowledged, hence why they also built a replica boat and had it sailed to Chicago
Rad if true. Every country should have brought a boat
Very true! It was wild. The crew was jailed in Brooklyn after getting into drunken street fights (or, as they vehemently insisted, being attacked by thugs.)
Guess they stayed in character huh? @@chris_troiano
@@BudehgongMost of our info on vikings comes from the christians who were horrified they'd rob churches and kill priests (because as usual christians think everybody knows their sacred places and should respect them while destroying other culture's similar things). In reality vikings were likely as violent or non-violent as any other culture at the time.
As for the alcohol, we know vikings had barrels of water on ships that they replenished on trade centers (they were skilled traders). Drinking alcohol was of course common too since people kept polluting the water around them. Medieval alcohol was however weaker than what we usually drink now.
TLDR vikings weren't violent drunkards any more than people from other cultures. Unfortunately they either didn't write about themselves or they got lost so we're left with the writings of racist religious zealots.
Sort of documented the knights templar visited Newfoundland before anyone else. They were from Scotland. Some evidence has been unearthed. First nations had oral history as well.
I took Food History recently and we discussed the chicago world fair for like a class and a half because of all the foods that came out. But lemme tell you THAT CHOCOLATE STATUE had to be protected because people were BITING IT for the silliness of it. People would apparently go crazy go silly at the fair.
Still not as gross as the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral, lol.
Well that disproves that previous generations behaved better.
Proves that anyone in any age can and will be silly on occasion lol @@christinetassone3156
@@christinetassone3156people have always been people 😂 the graffiti they found in Pompeii would make you spit out your coffee!
@@RevertedRashidahSo many ding-dongs.😂
When I was a child I was raised by my old aunt’ s tastes in music and literature. I was given Victorian children’s encyclopaedia to read and magazines from the 1920s. We joined a club to buy records from the ‘20s and ‘30s. As such, I was an odd child and bullied constantly for my lack of knowledge of pop music. However, my point is this: I really expected beef tea when unwell, and my aunt would replicate it by watering down tinned Beef Consommé (an already thin soup) with boiling water, so I could sip the concoction and believe I was being suitably revived.
That's honestly so cute, and I love how it wasn't actual beef tea lol
As someone else who was raised like I was born 100 years ago, I like you. Be my friend
Honestly sipping on what would basically be a very watered down soup sounds pretty comforting for a stuffy nose or upset stomach. I wouldn’t mind trying that little trick with the beef consommé someday
Growing up I had the flu so often this beef broth and dry toast is what kept me alive that and chicken broth. A good way of consuming more protein in the diet. Thank goodness for being born after the days of jelled meats and blccd pudding!
As someone who suffers a lot of stomach issues, beef tea is basically what keeps me going somedays.
So a note about the taxidermy--the reason why it's there is because the method that it uses was founded by Carl Akeley (the father of modern taxidermy) and was actually very new at the time to make them so realistic (he only mastered his method around 1900). His method and his own personal knowledge and experience with wildlife meant that he could accentuate things like musculature much better and make animals look as if they were alive, leading to the tableau dioramas you see at natural history museums still today. Having them be set in their natural habitat wasn't the norm until this point since this allowed visitors to see animals within their natural context and not just as parts of cabinets of curiosity. He was even the one who went to hunt the animals originally, which is part of why he had such a good grasp of their natural history and how he had photographs to work from as well. You can still see most of his famous works today at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, and the Smithsonian in DC in the diorama halls. The Hall of African Mammals here in NYC is still named after him.
As a kid I watched a lot of old cartoons and was very upset to find that I could not, in fact, go to the world’s fair. Truly devastating
Right???
You could go to the World Exposition in Osaka 2025?
@@AnnaMorimoto ooh, I didn't know they have one!
I went to the 1964 fair in New York, and all I remember that I liked was an exhibit of huge dinosaurs by Sinclair Gasoline. It was hot as hell and I was a cranky, sweaty 4-year-old.
@@maryeckel9682someone on tiktok made a parody using the Sinclair promo vid for the 64 world fair and its fantastic
Great video Kaz. I love the idea of Kaz being the judge for if something is allowed at the fair, stood with a clipboard at the entrance
“what is your exhibit sir?”
“It’s a recreation of the statue of liberty using salt”
“is it true to scale sir?”
“No it’s made of one single slab of salt, but is only 2/3rds the size”
Kaz shouts “Nope, if it isn’t full size, just leave” lol. Love the video, really interesting stuff.
I saw a statue of Elvis made out of butter at the Texas state fair, once. Some weirdness never dies.
@@anarey-oktay2683I can only imagine the cleanup
@@anarey-oktay2683 The year I went, the Ohio State Fair had next to the butter cow a butter Lewis and Clark. I never felt so alive. 😂
The Statue of Liberty made of salt was 12 feet tall. So 1/25th scale. Also Bartholdi was at the 1892 world's fair selling other statues.
For those who don't know, Dahomey was a kingdom in what's now Benin that lasted from 1600 to 1904. They fought the French in two wars, the first leading to giving up Porto-Novo and customs rights in Cotonou to the French in 1890, and the second leading to it to become a French protectorate in 1894 (and eventually a full colony in 1904). When it gained independence as a republic, it kept the name Dahomey until 1975 when it was renamed to Benin as Benin was deemed politically neutral for all ethnic groups. From what I found, the salty Statue of Liberty (exhibited by the UK) was twelve feet tall. Interestingly, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who sculpted the real Statue of Liberty, came back to the US in 1893 and visited the fair.
He visited because he was exhibiting and attempting to sell more sculptures. There was a bronze pairing of Washington and Lafayette and a silver Columbus. The Columbus statue was made for the fair but was cast in Providence. After the fair, the statue returned to Providence where it was melted down and a bronze cast of it was made and it stood until 2020 (reinstalled in nearby Johnston in 2023). The Washington and Lafayette monument was not purchased in Chicago and went back to Paris. It was purchased for NYC in 1900 and is at Lafayette Square by Morningside Park. Bartholdi had hoped to display them at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Selling them in 1893 to Chicago was his backup plan. No one wanted to meet his price at the time, so he took them back home. It is unknown if he ever saw the Statue of Liberty made of salt, as it was in a different pavilion from his exhibition.
dying at the orange cider food blogger imitation. so accurate lmao Kat sounds like every influencer on TikTok making Disney World food recommendations.
Hello Kaz! As a sapphic women interested in history, you have been an extremely important part of my personal research, and my life. Whenever I have a difficult day in my small, conservative town I sit down and watch your LGBTQIA+ history videos. Your history videos have given me a window to my ancestors. You have given me historical figures I can finally relate to! So when my present seems hostile and isolating, I can look to the past to find belonging. Sorry if this seems rambling.
TLDR: You are an important and valued person within the history community and you have impacted your views far more that you could ever comprehend! Thank you :)
I hope you'll soon be able to find your people in the present as well. Hang in there
u r both real ones :)
You are valuable and precious too! Stay strong. The world is a better place with you in it ❤
A beautiful testimonial. Brava!
Conversely, I as a CIS-HET man who has always fancied himself a history buff find Kaz's videos fascinating because I'm endeavoring to learn the side of history that we don't often get to hear about. I've had many friends and family members in the LGBTQIA+ family, and I feel that I should constantly be learning more about their history and experiences. I live in a horribly conservative area as well, and with so many of those trying to shut down the voices of those who should be heard, it's very important for creators like Kaz to continue the work that they're doing. Never forget that you're amazing and have a place in this world.
For the false orange cider, molasses and vinegar isn't THAT out there as a drink. That's basically what a shrub or switchel is - a sweetened vinegar drink. Made properly, they're actually really tasty and refreshing.
and good for rehydration
I would also guess that the molasses used at the time was sweeter and lighter than the blackstrap molasses most commonly available today.
Gotta plug our boy Max Miller who made a video on the topic
It's like lemonade, with a different acid. Consider the acid content of soda pop.
I’ve made shrub and it’s pretty great
The Kinetscope at the show is actually very significant. Arguably, this was the first time that the general public would see motion pictures; 3 years before the Lumiere's show in Paris.
If you want to read a bit about Indigenous performers at the Columbian World's Fair (and what some of them got out of it participating) one good place to start is the world fair chapter of Paige Raibmon's book Authentic Indians (2005). There's also an article I especially like about Indigenous performers at Seattle's first world's fair by Josh Reid titled "Professor Igloo Jimmie and Dr. Boombang Meet the Heathens: Indigenous Representations and the Geography of Empire at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition" in Pacific Northwest Quarterly (2010).
(I'm a professional historian and this is an area of particular interest of mine, so happy to share more).
Thank you for sharing!
I feel like 'Professor Igloo Jimmie and Dr Boombang Meet the Heathens' may be one of the best titles I've ever heard in my life.
Very good
One story that I've heard about how the great Chicago Fire of 1871 happened was 2 drunks fighting over a bottle of whiskey and knocking over a candle.
Let me guess… they were also Irish.
The Irish built the New York skyscrapers and the transcontinental railroad.
People back then and still to this day have no appreciation for the work of immigrants.
@@Ok_Thanks i guess irish people are the only people who get drunk, or something
@@Ok_Thanks I was saying that the story was probably still blaming Irish for the fire.
The whole drunken Irishman stereotype.
That context was left out if that’s who they were in the story.
@@lazarusthibodeauxThat’s probably because the original story doesn’t specify? I’ve heard it before too, and while I don’t know the origin nor the validity, I don’t ever remember hearing the two men were Irish.
I heard they were wrestling over the bottle and laughing, lost their footing
As a historical educator, the one thing I harp on is that no matter how different circumstances are, human nature is always the same. The reaction to that song is absolutely hilarious anecdotal evidence to that effect. 😂 Also bless you for taking your life in your own hands and trying that Evil Cider for us!
I’d come across that song years ago and would listen to a rendition on iTunes sometimes. I find it utterly hilarious to find out it caused such an uproar! I could totally see it though, it is an aggressively lilting tune.
The fact that humans are always humans is one of my favourite things about history! I love being able to understand the decisions of people from 2,000 years ago. It's such a fascinating, surreal experience to be so connected to people who are so far removed from us
Can I just take this small space to say I LOVE that you gave Tutter his own little appropriate hat! Thanks for the giggle there 🙂
Me too!!! And I love that Tutter's hat matches Kaz's hat. So whimsical. Kaz is the best.
"A city is a city is a city" THIS!!
I find this especially striking living in an old city neighborhood in Detroit. I hear so much inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the city, but its always the same people complaining about its problems that perpetuate them. Legacy Cities like Chicago, Detroit & St. Louis and so many others deserve our respect and I'm glad to hear someone defend them!
True within certain areas, but not globally. Chicago or Los Angeles are a thousand times more dangerous than London, Berlin, Rome, Munich or Tokyo.
It's not "All big cities are dangerous" but "All American cities are dangerous".
"a thing victorians were really into for whatever reason was things made out of things that they are not" gonna absolutely destroy a victorian's grip on reality with some cake videos rn
Shoutout for not only being one of the channels on here that consistently puts out high quality and well researched videos on understudied topics, but also actively using videos to bring awareness and donate to relevant causes. You rock! And I love your content ❤
I like that Chicago lists key events of its city's history like the world's expo and the great fire on its flag through the stars and how each point individually stand for a value from those events. It does make a lot of sense that the Florida pavilion had the best orange cider, it is Florida after all! Nikola Tesla had stuff at the fair too! Part of the space occupied by the Westinghouse Company was devoted to demonstrations of electrical devices developed by Tesla including induction motors and the generators used to power the system. The rotating magnetic field that drove these motors was explained through a series of demonstrations including an Egg of Columbus that used the two-phase coil in the induction motors to spin a copper egg making it stand on end.
The Egg of Columbus refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new trade route was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. After his challengers give up, Columbus does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip. Tesla himself showed up to Chicago for a week in August to attend the International Electrical Congress, being held at the fair's Agriculture Hall, and put on a series of demonstrations of his wireless lighting system in a specially set up darkened room at the Westinghouse exhibit. These included demonstrations he had previously performed throughout the US and Europe, including using a nearby coil to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp held in his hand
I wanted to wear a suit to a funeral but got such an akward cold shoulder for the idea that I gave up, swallowed my dysphoria and wore a dress as expected. Seeing you look so awesome in a suit makes me wish I had been brave instead 😭.
For anyone wondering I doubt the dead body would have been insulted by my choice of formal wear both for being dead, and for being such an open-minded and loving person who always let people be who they wanted. Like I never saw her say anything weird about her gay grandchild, their wedding or their child.
As a pianist, I love Scott Joplin's music. He played a Cornet (trumpet family) with a band he put together for the 1893 World's Fair. The world was introduced to Ragtime.
I don't play any more, but I did when I was a kid. I think every baby pianist gets a little giddy when introduced to a good stride hand. You play some Scott Joplin and then someone hands you a piece by Jelly Roll Morton and you're gone! My spouse used to call it my "saloon music."
I can’t help but feel like the orange cider was the vintage version of the grimace shake…
The Mammoth Cheese was produced in the small rural town of Ingersoll, Ontario, which had cow pastures aplenty. It also had a poet by the name of James McIntyre, who wrote poems mostly about cheese, a subject which he contemplated with the same enthusiasm that Bunyan contemplated salvation and Wordsworth contemplated the infinite. Cheese was the center of McIntyre’s epistemology, eschatology, and metaphysics. The Mammoth Cheese was not only exhibited at the Columbia Exhibition, but it was sent to Paris. It premiered at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, and it's on this occasion that McIntyre wrote his masterpiece, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds." I present the poem here for your edification:
We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
All gaily dressed soon you’ll go
To the great Provincial Show,
To be admired by many a beau
In the city of Toronto.
Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,
Or as the leaves upon the trees,
It did require to make thee please,
And stand unrivalled, queen of cheese.
May you not receive a scar as
We have heard that Mr. Harris
Intends to send you off as far as
The great World’s show at Paris.
Of the youth beware of these,
For some of them might rudely squeeze
And bite your cheek, then songs or glees
We could not sing, oh! queen of cheese.
We’rt thou suspended from balloon,
You’d cast a shade even at noon,
Folks would think it was the moon
About to fall and crush them soon.
What can one say? McIntyre was apparently a very nice man, beloved in his community, and sincere in his dedication to the muse. In poem after poem, he celebrated the delights of turophilia, and pride in the agricultural achievements of Ontario. If you have ever sampled some of the better country cheeses of this province, such as Harrowsmith or Balderson’s, you might be tempted to place them on the same plane as salvation or the infinite. In fact, I would dare to place them on a higher plane. I don’t really have a handle on the infinite, and I don’t believe in salvation beyond the grave, but I can appreciate a good cheese.
God this comment needs to be pinned
St. Louisan here!! The Ferris wheel was amazing here as well. As I remember for the 1904 worlds fair they actually had one of the cars dressed to be a wedding venue and a bunch of people got married there. Also they don't know where the axel is, at one point it was supposed to go to Coney island I believe, but that deal fell through for some reason and its rumored to be under a road, in forest park, or it may have been dismantled for steel for train tracks.
As someone who's always been interested in the 1893 World's Fair, I love that you made a video on this and especially acknowledged how racist and exploitative the fair was for people of color. That also makes me really appreciate your intentional choice for the organization you chose for this video to donate to as someone who's also from Chicago. I love your suit and look too! so much to love in this video!
Pigeons are truly Some Pumpkins, I agree with you there. Humans need to remember our responsibility to them. If we're going to domesticate them, we need to not abandon them once our interest wanes.
We have like 20 living among our chicken, part of them given away by breeders due to "wrong color" bs and others hopping by after getting lost at races and weddings and deciding to stay. The chicken eat their eggs, too, so we don´t breed. They are all gorgeous, colorful and sweet. Really just abandoned pets.
After all doves.are white.pigeons species thT had version of rac izm..food.for.thought
Lovely video as always! A museum near my hometown has a small part of the 1893 World's Fair; Tiffany glassworks designed and built a byzantine inspired chapel that was just meant to be used as a space to showcase ecclesiastical supplies but it's Tiffany so the whole space is a total work of art. It ended up being transported to Tiffany's estate in New York, was left abandoned after his death, and nearly destroyed by a fire in the 50's. It ended up being transported to Winter Park, FL and it's a part of the Morse Museum there. Highly recommend checking it out if you're ever in the area, they have a huge collection of Tiffany works and other Victorian/Edwardian/early 20th century art (tho they don't have the orange cider, fake floridians smh).
My favorite story about Chicago's reputation is when my Dad was staying in Paris for about a year from 1968-69, and while he was there, there was some kind of violent gangland shooting at a place called the Etoile. The Parisian newspapers had a headline that (translated) read, "It was Chicago at the Etoile!" Dad knew what that meant.
I’d never knowingly heard Chicago used in this way before, but reading your message reminded me that I actually have-a band I knew had a song titled Chicago Typewriter. If it weren’t for the lyrics I’d never have caught they meant a Tommy gun!
Next, they should do the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair--it has a lot of wild stuff, including the debut of the fax machine and the x-ray machine, as well as baby incubators (with babies inside them!). It also had a lot of very creepy colonialist/imperialist/racist "anthropological" exhibits worth discussing. It also had a prominent female organizer named Florence Hayward whose contributions deserve to be publicized.
Yes, St Louis was the world's largest human zoo. A terrible scandal, nobody remembers it. BTW, wasn't the ice cream sugar cone introduced at the 1893 Fair?
Yes, absolutely. Just an aside…Kaz uses they/them pronouns. Carry on, as you were.
@@bobnolin9155bYes it was.
I have read fiction centering around the 1893 fair, and seen local exhibits about it in Chicago, in addition, watching videos about it, but this is interesting. I would like to try the orange cider.
Kaz uses they/them pronouns. And I cant wait for such a video too. Hopefully they'll work on it
You know what would be really good for that beef tea? Make a batch about 4x the size. Add a lot of onions, celery, carrots and potatoes before simmering. Add more salt than you think you need (but not by too much) and a bunch of savory spices. Remove the beef, chop it up fine, add it back to the mixture, simmer for a while longer and eat it all with a spoon.
If you just add a lot more veggies (a portion of them added in about the time you would chop up the beef) you can even remove the beef entirely.
Isn’t this just stew? Which I love, but what you’re describing is stew
Baby… you got a stew going… Carl weathers
@@kaykeunil That was the joke. lol
I do love that beef tea is an underseasoned concentrated beef broth made for people who need the extra nutritional punch. Nothing more weird than that. I think that the wording just gets to people. It used to get to me before I learned how to make it.
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I read “the devil in the white city” front to back, ravenously tbh, when I was most recently in prison. I’ve been released on probation for nearly 3 years at this point, and the subject matter instantly became my “Roman empire”. I almost certainly think about and reference it every single day. 😂 So of course I clicked as soon as this came up in my feed.
That's really a book with something for everyone. I'm honestly surprised that no one has made a movie based on it. Glad it helped you pass the time in prison.
I loved the book and have cult classic like reread it a few times.
28:10 I love it, Vikings went to the American continent first, what a way to make the statement 😂😂😂
I love that you're promoting different charities with the ad revenue--thank you and keep up the amazing work!
I've been obsessed with the fair for most of my life. I bought some old Chicago Historical Society museum magazines at the museum back in the 1980s and one of them had a great layout and text about the fair. I'm always bummed that too much emphasis has been placed on HH Holmes, because the fair itself is way more interesting (and a lot of the sensational stuff about Holmes, including the alleged murder castle, were press fabrications) and the fair would be my number one destination for my mythical time machine. Thanks for this respectful look at this grand and weird event.
Did they have any magazines about the Eastland Disaster of 1915? I'm a bit curious now.
Have you heard the wild tartaria theories in regards to the world fair? It's crazy and bizarre.
I’ve been obsessed with it since I moved to the Chicago are in the late 80’s. After I read “Devil In The White City” I was REALLY obsessed!
I love how the dishwasher is one of the first things people thought to make once they had some form of plumbing and electricity. People have hated doing dishes forever it’s not just a modern thing. Some of my favorite examples of these types of contraptions too are the electrical elevator (invented 1880s), and of course the car. People don’t like walking very much turns out.
"Miscellaneous slops" is my new favorite turn of phrase. Beautiful. A testament to the English language.
Would love to see a sister video on the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair! There’s also lots of zany stories surrounding it, and a few structures from it still being used today (like the waterfowl building at the zoo 😄)
I think I'm right in saying the 1904 Summer Olympics took place at the same time as the St Louis World's Fair. I know the marathon of that Olympics especially has a story or two to tell.
@@jaysea3690some Pretty Good stories to tell
I read that at the 1904 fair there was essentially a butter sculpture competition with 12 states represented by 300 entries. The Wisonsin entry was a life sized cow and milkmaid. And one of the Minnesota entries was a life sized statue of a priest being rowed in a conoe by Native Americans ( that alone using 1,000 lbs of butter). Crazy to think how they kept all those structures from metling and structurally sound in 1904.
I'm from the mommoth cheese town. thanks for your kind words regarging our beautiful cheese
My favorite bit of trivia regarding the 1893 World's Fair is that the (ahem) lifelong spinster Katharine Lee Bates, having crossed the amber grainfields of Kansas on her way to teach at Colorado College among the purple mountains of the west, finished the poem for which she became best known while visiting the alabaster city erected at Chicago.
i love love love how you acknowledge the good with the bad, not discounting either. so often history is remembered through rose-tinted glasses, but it doesnt mean bad things didnt happen. we have to hold both together not only for truth, but as a recognition that even with the bad around us today we still have a lot of positives to hold onto. thank you for this awesome video kaz! you put so much thought and effort into everything you create, and that in itself is inspiring to me ❤
I love watching these! Your outfit is splendid as always. It’s very refreshing to see a history channel discuss more unique topics. I also really enjoy the format of these videos where you bounce around topics a lot. It keeps things interesting
Yay, I like learning more about the 1893 World's Fair. Also, since we accepted the cat from the fates, we're apparently now on the fates mailing list because a cattle dog mix appeared on our porch (in the deep country. A quarter of a mile to the nearest neighbor as the crow flies. Most roads around here are gravel.)
So we have a new dog. Yay us
The fact that you and your friend happened to be researching the same *extremely specific* historical beverage at the same time proves two things: 1. your life is awesome, 2. you have chosen your friends wisely.
Cheers!
Also, the story of the men mailing themselves there sounds hilarious and I wish Kaz had told us more about it lmao
Let's bring World's Fairs back (minus the problematic stuff obviously)
They’re still around! Although they unfortunately don’t make nearly the same splash anymore. The last one was in Kazakhstan in 2017.
@@ztl2505 that exciting to hear!
They haven’t come to the USA since 1984 (presumably the 1996 bombing at the Olympics scared off the International Expo committee). The last one was actually in Dubai in 2020 (held in 2021 due to the pandemic). The next is in Osaka Japan in 2025. Minneapolis Minnesota bid for the 2027 worlds fair last June but was turned down in favor of Belgrade Serbia. The us wont have another shot at hosting until 2033 at the soonest because 2030 was chosen for Riyadh Saudi Arabia
@@WariorOfPeace Cost overruns, and let's face it, people can stay home and see amazing things online. When was the last one that ended in the black?
I literally squeal whenever I see a notification that a new Kaz video is out!
I had been waiting for days 😂😂😂😂
I think that man on the Ferris wheel was having a full blown panic attack 😅
I happen to know about the salt statue of Liberty! It was from the Great Britain hall and it was carved from rock salt native to a mine there. It was 12 feet tall!
Yay Kaz!! So excited!! I learned about the 1893 World's fair in high school because of required reading of "The Devil in the White City" and it's always been interesting to me since then!
It is -8 °F and snowing here in Colorado right now so thanks for the upload on this snowy house trapped day Kaz! ❤
Kaz doing the food blogger imitation at 24:13 had me rolling. SPOT. ON.
I worked on a building a children's museum in Philadelphia in one of the last remaining buildings from the Centennial Exposition of 1876. There is even a model of the fairgrounds in the basement. I've stared at it for hours
If anyone is wondering what Dahomey means it was an African country located in modern day Benin, which is bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria.
The perception of Chicago as uniquely dangerous is so wild to me. When I moved from a different Midwestern state to the suburbs of Chicago, so many of my friends/coworkers asked if I was concerned about getting shot. As someone who grew up visiting Chicago frequently and never felt unsafe, that was just so baffling to me.
O'block...
The suburbs aren’t quite the same as the areas people tend to think of when they think “Chicago Crime” lol. There’s more playing into you never feeling unsafe than you seem to realize
My favorite is when I hear about "scary Chicago" from fellow Texans. I'm like, my dude, are you aware of where we live and how often road rage murders happen and because of our piss poor lax gun culture no one is ever held accountable? HERE, where we literally have legislatures forcing guns into schools for the 'safety' of the kids we continue to have murdered in their classrooms? Have you not searched 'gun left in school bathroom'? You can give them all the evidence and facts about Chicago's guns coming from Indiana, or it actually being REALLY low on the murder per capita list in the US, but it's always going to circle back to Chicago. It's mind boggling, and yes - always comes down to racism.
Depends where you live. I don't think the suburbs would be a problem for you. The fact you've never felt unsafe in Chicago is more baffling to me and speaks volumes lol
The Viking ship is actually on display in Geneva IL if you ever want to go see it in person!
My dad born in 1918 lived in a very poor end of Brooklyn New York and even though lights were around most of the city of Brooklyn. Yet he remembered them putting electric lights in his tenement and seeing electric lights for the first time as a little boy.
I grew up literally on the remains of the San Francisco Worlds Fair, Treasure Island.
Like walking around derelict ruins from the past.
Like I was 8 and doing urbex before it was cool
Viking ships: Modern reconstructions of Viking Age ships look a little different and, in my eyes, more elegant.
In Oslo they have a museum where they exhibit preserved Viking ships: Gokstad-ship, Oseberg-ship Tune-ship. There is also a Viking ship museum in Roskilde. In both places, they build the new Viking ships by original methods as part an experimental archaeology learning process.
The clunky Victorian viking ship reconstruction still show up in illustrations all the time.
And a side note: the danish word for Ferris wheel is Paris wheel. (Pariserhjul) No one is aware of this Ferris person. Haha!
Yeah but modern reconstructions are working from actual viking ships, Oseberg wasnt discovered till 20 years after Chicago. Before that they were working from descriptions, manuscripts and wild guesses.
And in Bulgarian, it's called a Vienna Wheel :D I suspect just wherever people first ran into the thing is what ended up being the term for it.
@@JenxRodwell I was just gonna comment that, thought there is a big one in Vienna.
That's so funny about the name Ferris Wheel in English is different from other countries or languages. In Spanish, when translated to English, is called the "wheel of fortune" - rueda de la fortuna. 😅
Lifetime Chicagolander here. The Field Museum was also built for the 1893 Worlds Fair. Cheers!
You doing a monthly charity payment is so sweet. I love that idea. Thank you so much for caring about the community and wanting to give back. I can't donate myself, but I will do everything I can to support you for your donations. 💜
I always love when a new video from you pops up, I will literally stop whatever I am doing to watch them. I've said it before but if my school days had even ONE history teacher like you, I'd have been into history long before my 30s. I've always said if I were to teach, it would be History which I'd make fun & interesting. You do exactly that!
A good teacher makes all the difference. I was fortunate enough to have a teacher who made history interesting. He moved to our city before school started and then left after the school year, so my class was the only class (in our district) to have this teacher, and it's such a shame. He liked to go on random tangents about torture devices. His favorite saying was, "Mother's baby, father's maybe" and then would go on a lecture about how men did unhinged and terrible stuff to secure themselves an "heir", and how women had to suffer for men to be "sure" that a baby was theirs, and how that affected X part of history. Then he'd go on tangents about riots that happened during his (present day) travels, etc.
I hope Kaz does a video about Gore Vidal one day. That guy had a wild life AS AN OPENLY QUEER WRITER IN THE 1950s & 60s and sparked a decades-old debate about the queer-undertones of his cinematic masterpiece, BEN-HUR (1959)
Omg I'd never heard of himthank you for sharing!!
I don’t believe he’s done a video about Gore Vidal (yet, lol), but check out Matt Baume’s channel if you’re looking for more queer Hollywood history :)
What isn't mentioned here is that Carl Hagenbeck, the guy with the animal show, also founded the world's first zoo without bars in Hamburg.
In college, I spent a semester in Budapest, where at the edge of a large public park not far from my apartment there is a building originally constructed in the 1890s for Hungary's Millennium Fair (celebrating the country's 1000-year anniversary of their monarchy), intended as a temporary exhibit, that includes elements of architectural styles throughout Hungarian history. It is indeed a weird amalgamation that was controversial even at the time it was built, but is still there 100+ years later and has now become something of a local icon.
Id love to hear you do this to the '39 fair but id also love to hear you do a deeper dive into the '64 New York world fair.
Yay!!! It’s always a good day when Kaz drops some historical knowledge on us ❤❤❤
Book recommendation:
Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that details the planning and production of the world fair AND H. H. Holmes. The book is told like a narrative book and presents the facts in a really engaging way.
"Hurry dear, bring your orange cider, the torture exhibit is going to close soon!"
having a rough day so this was such a nice notif to see! really looking forward to cozying in with a fun ranking vid! and may I just say that the fact that you're still masking + have it as part of your outro is very heartening
A. Nice Hats
B. FEW whiskey any good ? .
Personally I’m enjoying it :) this one’s their bourbon
As a Norwegian, there is one incredible boat that I think was dug up in 1902 which is the most magnificent boat found in Norway from that time. Compared to that one, the skip they sent to Chicago seems a little bit more like a "simpler" version of a viking ship (which it probably also was). Thanks for the video :))
As a traditional recipe recreationist myself, I'm gonna suggest that, by the ingredients and usual practice, the "orange cider", either version, was also left to ferment for probably 2 or 3 days before serving. They may not have included it in the instructions, but like ginger ale or ginger beer, it was understood that you needed to let it sit to marry and get some alcohol in it. Since no yeast is specified, we can also assume they would have expected natural yeast, so the water or equipment probably wasn't sterilized or boiled.
I just want to inform you that sadly, messengers pigeons, like wedding pigeons now, were probably not well treated. They were not someone's pet and when animals are seen as products and not being, its never good for them.
But great video, your stuff is always so interesting!
Kaz is wearing a straw boater and talking about an entire city burning down, it's gonna be a good one folks
I had a trip to Chicago a few months ago and the tour guide only mentioned the world’s fair to lead into the story of HH Holmes but I was eager to learn more about the fair itself. Super excited for this video!
Honestly the "after the ball" sounds a lot like the modern phenomenon of Mariah Carey during Christmas in retail
Very fond of this rating system. I hope to add some of these words to my vocabulary
I believe I read that the Chocolate Venus had ice cold water circulating inside it.
I can’t imagine going to a huge event like a worlds fair and having to apply for a permit to take photos
I double checked and “After the ball” is in the public domain, based on all the sources I could find for free, including the New York public library.
So I believe your free to play the song in its entirety without fear of a copyright strike.
30:09 How is "After the Ball" not in the public domain.
october 8th is my birthday and coincidentally, thats the second sad thing that i now know of, which happened on this day!!
also happy new year!! this is comforting before i do my final exam 🤞🏼🤞🏼
In 2015 I was working at a Lego convention…shortly after The Lego Movie came out. They played Everything Is Awesome all day, open to close, for THREE straight days. Nothing was awesome for a very long time.
My dad remembers going to the 1964 New York world fair in Queens as a kid. Every time we drive past Flushing he tells us about how he remembers going on it’s a small world and the people mover. And about how excited he was to be there. We recently went on a family trip to Disney world where he got very nostalgic about both rides.
That is awesome my mother actually went as well she was nine years old at the time and is 69 today and my great cousin Was in charge of making the Belgian waffle Sundae stand and she is also still alive
you should contact the library of congress music division so that you can look at the original sheet music for stuff like After the Ball!
Oh, extremely jazzed to see this video go up, I just finished listening to The Devil in the White City with my partner over the holidays along with some of Erik Larson's other books (of which Dead Wake, about the sinking of the Lusitania is def his best work imo and cries out to be adapted by Mike Flanagan prestige mini-series ASAP) so all the trevails of the construction and maintenance of the fair are fresh in my mind, delighted to see snapshots some of the sights I so recently imagined.
i'm a history student and i absolutely love kazs videos, i wish my lectures were as interesting
Honestly -- that POOR MAN. He was terrified of heights! Victorian lady treated him like a horse - cover his eyes and calm him down!
the 3 fetuses on the ground came out of left field and left me bewildered
ugh world fairs fascinate me!! super excited for this one :0)
This video has taught me two things:
1. Humanity never changes. we like to see things we’ve never seen before, we like to be amazed, and we are easily tricked into ridiculous situations by those trying to make a quick buck.
2. The world fair should come back, but instead of all the racist exhibits, we should have exhibits that are genuinely run and managed individually by people of their representative countries. almost like how the Olympics sends forward a bunch of athletes, but instead they share their culture. Normalize foreign places. Humanize those who live on this planet with us. Really make it a WORLD fair.
bless the young people today. im 40 now but youtube came out when I was 20, yes, its been around that long. its very refreshing to see that young folk today still have an interest in history and are making such great videos about it. keep on keeping on, I say!
As a 21 year old that absolutely scares me. I just realized how little time there is between the age of 21 and 40, and now feel a sense of urgency.
In the name of Like, Comment, Subscribe, the Holy Ones & Zeros bless this video.
VERY rarely do I feel pride at being a Floridian.... being associated with the star beverage (and the only drinkable version!) of this 19th century festival is strangely gratifying! Thank you for your dedication to research and bravery in trying BOTH versions of the cider! Super interesting and fun to watch!
I had the same reaction! I was like, "Of course we had the best orange cider, oranges are what we do!" 🤣
19:58 the “evil” version is basically switchel which was very popular and very good: vinegar + sugar/molasses and instead of orange switchel has lemon and ginger
When I lived in Chicago, I got the vibe that the blame for the fire was less on immigrants or Katherine, and more on the dang cow.