Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the panamapacific International Exposition. Thank you so much to the California Historical society for hosting tonights event and especially adam, jason, and the director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great worlds fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you a little background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and then we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwa
Director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great world fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwards, i will be happy to take questions. Here we have rueben brooks hale of the department stores. He first suggested San Francisco host 1915 worlds fair in january of 1904. He wrote the occasion could be adve
Award, and Everybody Knows about this in iceland, how i was. That part of your life. Yeah. Most people are familiar with my story. And i thought because i couldnt remember, this may be something that i made a decision to close down, the same thing, maybe just saved my life. And i just started crying because i didnt know. And i had these times when, again, i was so exhausted, so tired. Ive never experienced anything like this in my life, having to understand something that you so desperately dont want. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Or booktv. Org. Up next, Lawrence Goldstone recounts the competition between Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss to be the predominate name in manned flight. This is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you all to the rogers memorial library. My name is penny wright. Im the director of adult programs here and we are very delighted to have a discussion tonight by an esteemed, acclai
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