1915 World’s Fair Put a Reborn San Francisco in the Spotlight | KQED Arts 

Nine years after one of the greatest earthquakes to hit a city, they built a city that looks far more advanced and glorious than their own.. then they tore it down. Makes sense... where did they find all those artisans? Why not rebuild the city of San Francisco itself, not an expo of "temporary" pieces of architectural majesty?

"They called it the jewel city. It rose from the mudflats..." Literally! 👁🙈

How is it possible to build all of this beautiful stone buildings and then tear them down. Something doesn't make sense.

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if the city of San Francisco had made the necessary deals to preserve the buildings from the World's Fair of 1915, imagine the number of people who would very much in our time love to see and visit it. And if the funds which could flow from this would be like a sort of Disneyland.

I LOVE "Story" Telling Tartarian!

Lies! lies! Those buildings were there already and that's why they pulled them down so people wouldn't start wondering about their architecture. These types of beautiful buildings are found in most parts of the world. Were they all built for a fair in the same architectural style? And why after spending so much money and such elaborate decorations inside and outside would they just pull them down? People should have been in an uproar for such a wasteful disgrace!!!!

The more I watch it the more I become angry! This is a crime against humanity

The real question is how could a bunch of miners and explorers build such a city from 1848 to 1878:) Also keep in mind that the gold dried up 8 years after it was found, so where did the funds came from after 1856? Also keep in mind that the "settlers" didn't start right away building churches and huge buildings. Some of the huge buildings including the two churches were build in about what...15 years?? I live in the Netherlands in the old city of Hoorn where there are lots of old buildings and churches and they took generations to build;) My two cents is that the Spanish were there long before they "discovered" gold;) This is just sooo obvious it's almost funny.

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"..built to last just ten months," my arse.

So the city is built out of carved stone, which is made to last thousands of years...that takes hundreds of years to sculpt and build...by builders who had no knowledge of stone cutting. Anyone who cannot figure out that it was built by a previous, ancient culture of fine artisans who beheld the lost art of stone cutting, is clueless.

I'd be lying if I claimed to know exactly where all these world fairs/immaculate architecture comes from, but I'm intrigued to say the very least.

Needed a reason to tear down hints of past.

I just cannot believe that in 9 years a mini city was built to later be destroy leaving shitty vestiges only. Come on showing animations mixed with the real thing does not make up for the truth. Do no lie tell people why all was demolished.

I am so proud of everyone commenting on this!!!! STAAAAY WOOOKE!!!!

Research Tartaria. @3:32 THE TYPEWRITER GIANT.

Funny isn't it they build all these structures? Just to rip them down? But they can build over 200 buildings in less that two months... yet we can't build like that now?

Yea this doesn’t make sense to me. I smell something fishy

Yeah, 10 months!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Do "THEY" actually want us to believe they built those magnificent buildings, with a horse and buggy civilization and then just to turn around and tear most of them down, now I've heard some crazy things but this tops the list! Those buildings were already here!!!!

The million dollar question is how the hell did they achieve this in the early 1900s??

Ask about the mud flood and Tartaria

Not one picture or video of them building it....I dont believe after the giant earthquake a few years before they were able to build this. Just to tear it down. This was already there when the settlers showed up

Now what kind of parents would donate their babies for the new life-saving baby incubators?

Oh and who else was waiting for "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW.....YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW.....YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW AND YOUR NOT SO BIG ANYMORE.....LIFE IS UNFAIR" as they played that Gape Horn sounding song at the end? I think everyone involved in this video usually works in Gape Horn 100% of the time.

Look on RU-vid: Fine Arts Palace Demolished (1964). You can see the original structure taken down. It is made of wood, not stone. The present one is an identical copy made in permanent materials.

Where did the millions of people stay? How were they fed? Why is everyone in the film clips look well off?

TARTARIA

This was an amazing story. Great shots, great editing, and wonderful storytelling. KQED has a great film crew.

Была реставрация.

I used to believe in Santa too.

THEN WHY DID YOU DEMOLISH IT??? The Field Museum in Chicago STILL STANDS. I'm sick of this stuff.

Why build something that is so beautiful and just dismantle it? But they left the palace of fine art?! That is a solid permanent building. Why? Such a waste of resources. Can anyone please tell me why?

This was one of the last great expositions where architects and figurative sculptors worked together. Most of the buildings were temporary structures as were the sculptures. In essence the temporary buildings were like a movie set. Steel frame and panels of the buildings and sculptures made of a plaster gypsum and chopped hemp material, that was easier to work with called Staff or artificial travertine. Models of sculptures were pointed to monumental scale using a 3d pantograph which manually found hundreds to thousands of points that made the process much faster. Many of you are skeptical and it is no wonder because you were never taught or educated about these expositions or the American Renaissance. I have been researching this for over 50 years and if there is any blame or cover up it is from a greedy modernist art society. Remove great art so we can put our crap on the pedestal. The Expositions were taken out of the art history books, in order to promote modernism as the greatest thing in art. Add to that the insistence that drawing.painting and sculpting from the human form was dead,. The media and universities also fell for this bull shit and many still refuse to teach the traditional methods to draw, paint and sculpt and basically could not if they tried today. Architects also have no clue how to collaborate with sculptors and sculptors in general have no clue how to create monumental sculpture anymore.. What other occupation requires absolutely no education nor training? Would you hire an untrained architect, doctor, contractor , plumber or electrician? Do your research before you spout what little you know. Even the expositions in Paris were temporary. Walt Disney was inspired by the NY worlds Fair. And Disneyland was born. There was a grand pride in the nation after the Civil War and before the first world war. A country that isn't busy with endless war begins to create great things.

Disgusting what these people did to destroy the beautiful architecture on a level we’ve never seen, can’t be letting people have free energy now can we?

"Mud Flats" uhhhh hunh...hey can I get Jon Levi over here in the comments please.....paging Jon Levi to the comments section....bring Scout or whatever the doggos name-o is....I can't recall at the moment cause this delicate snowflake said the concessions stands were Ray Shisht?!?!?

He destroyed it take to destroy everything else that was probably one of the most beautiful things on this planet and the destroyer Kate destroy everything that’s good and I’m truly people see that we’re going to get destroyed

There are some holes in this narrative.

They built it in 6 Months and then tore it down? What?!!! Lath and plaster my Azz!!

A theory of beauty, i think beauty is of utmost importance for the human psyche. It is very important for our well being and happiness to be surrouned by beautiful things. Humans are creatures who crave for beauty,. beauty in the food we eat in the form of taste, beauty in the sounds we hear in the form of music or the chants of the birds, beauty in the form of nice aromas or the beauty of being touched by people we love. We are sexually attracted to beauty. I think being surrouned by uglyness in all of it's forms, be it ugly architecture, ugly smells, ugly noise, is detrimental for our psychological health. Modern architects shuld be more mindful of this and should really take into account beauty when designing buildings or urban spaces. The effects of beauty or lack thereof on our human psyche may be more profound than we think of, it may even affect social cohesion, safety, our desire to take care of the place we live, how connected we feel to the community, etc.

what a propaganda piece

BULLSHIT ITS TARTARIA!!!

KQED is covering up History. Like the Palace of fine arts is a temporary structure haha. No mention of Tartaria.

It was already there. That's y it was destroyed. We didn't build it.

vaya montaña de mentiras.....

Tartarian conspiracy theorists are the qanon of architecture. 😂

Let them say whatever they want let them lie let them lie. We already have awakened. We already figured alot out. They are trying very hard but the more lies the cringier it is

LIAR

The ignorance shown in this comment thread is beyond belief, truly epic.

Lies!lies💥💥💥💥💥💥💢💢💢👎

Fake history

Is this mockery of one’s intelligence? Nice made up bedtime story for those who are asleep.