Me on Monday

So, at the beach, Sandy, Butch and I started watching a documentary on Prime called The Great World Fair about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. 

It was super interesting, and a little boring in a few places. Just keepng it real!

But, I learned a bunch of new fun facts:

1904 St. Louis World's Fair--7 months long. Originally, it was going to be 600 acres, but then they doubled it to 1200 because they wanted it to be bigger than the Chicago's World Fair. 1200 acres is 13 times larger than Disney World's Magic Kingdom!

There were many foods invented at the fair:

Ice cream cone--turns out, it wasn't invented, but popularized.

peanut butter

hamburgers

hotdogs

sliced bread

pickles

iced tea

puffed rice

Considering we take all of those foods for granted, it's interesting to know that they were invented in my hometown!

There were only two beers available--Budweiser and Falstaff. This interested me because Falstaff no longer exists, but it was my dad's favorite.

Then this:

St. Louis had the world's largest pipe organ---it contained 60,000 pipes, 1600 keys, and 5 keyboards. It was bought by Wannamaker in Philadelphia after the fair. Wannamaker is now Lord & Taylor and you can still hear the organ  twice a day.

Okay, that's enough! If you get a chance, it's worth a watch.