My father (1900-90) talked about listening in to a telephone set up in New York City that let him hear the Pacific Ocean near this Exposition. Many years later I was amazed to see that very phone in a museum. Things like that pulled the country together and left a legacy; the commemorative 1/2 dollar and the stamps issued for the Exposition are still quite available. The gold commemorative coins...another story unless you have very deep pockets.
This is the best film I have seen of the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. I am so glad that San Francisco restored the Palace of Fine Arts and that it still stands today.
It's not what they told us that they did with the Palace of Fine Arts. They were removing features that told of a previous civilization, the one that built the Palace, and was much more advanced and prosperous that we are today. It's a deep rabbit hole.
Being a 70 year old native from a old time family.. grandpa Goddard arrived in 1850.. spending many summers at grandmas in the Haight,(Fredrick St.) I feel gratitude for being a witness to many things. San Francisco will always be known to me as “The City”. One of the most impressive experiences of my life. Thanks for the documentary.
To bad they burned down the thing they found. San fran was up there with the great cities of Europe. Those buildings were already there and we found them, painted them for the world fair and then destroyed so history could not be examined. Explain to me how did all the great cities burn down if they were built of stone, and why did they all burn from 1890-1920 right before the 'depression, was the depression used to whipe man's memory of a past of great human design and unity? These buildings were destroyed with weaponry not a factory fire. Speaking of factory fires, we have a lot of those happening right now?😢 resets done by the elites have happened many times in our history and it's happening again, get right with God Now before its too late
@@somethinginthewater3802 If "Those buildings" existed amongst the population of San Francisco prior to 1914, how is it that _absolutely no one ever_ had made one single notice of them? Your inane fantasies are just that. 'Resets" are fairy tales. Get a grip on reality.
This was one of the first propaganda films made, another one was the camera in the streetcar going up Market St. just a few days before the earthquake. How could the whole city be rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire in such a short time, and are we to believe the magnificent structures at the Exposition site were just temporary? Just like Paris, Chicago, St Louis, etc. Seems to me like it was part of the last reset and the erasing of the technology and history of the Tartarian empire.
...oh my god. is this another stupid conspiracy theory? really? like no, you people don't get to insult us Californians at every turn, then flip right around and mine our history for your idiotic neo-con crackpot theories. You want to know how they built these buildings? I'll tell you. The building material is called Staff. it's a mixture of gypsum and other materials, and strengthened by sackcloth when you stick it in the molds. you can make it very quickly, very cheaply, and a whole metric crapton of world's fairs used it. Thing is though, it doesn't last, so any of the buildings they wanted to preserve, they had to be built in wood or concrete (like the Japanese pavilion) or be rebuilt in something more permanent. this is basic frigging construction techniques, you easily-manipulated rube, not a hidden mystery of genocide. Like what is wrong with you? In fact the area where they had the fair was mostly *reclaimed land* , as in not reclaimed from some ancient people, but that they dredged up the earth and packed it into those areas. *this is why it's one is the worst places to be in an earthquake.* this is literally part of town built on sand. How hard is it for you people to believe that people, with our monkey hands, *can build things?* Are you going to start believing that every skyscraper was built by aliens? every two-story townhome was built by a mythical race of fish-people? Get some sense into your heads.
@@basilmemories If you actually looked into this, you would quite easily be able to differentiate between the plaster temporary structures that were propped up amongst all the pre-existing permanent buildings. Look at the sheer size of many of these Worlds Fair buildings. You’re going to sanely say that those were cheap, temporary, plaster structures? They’re going to house the worlds most prized inventions underneath these giant “temporary” structures built on unstable sandy grounds and invite the worlds most prominent people? The canals, fountains, waterways....the plumbing. All the wiring for electricity. The In extremely limited and short periods of time? The Buffalo Worlds Fair had more lights than New York City! Get real! Just imagine the blueprints and planning of these layouts alone! Wake up!
@@slimvickins5059 There were no "pre existing buildings" on the fair site other than shacks and small homes. You fools believe fantasy and disregard fact.
на 6:19 показаны колонны, на которых видны на мой взгляд множество углублений. Похоже это от креплений и что-то было закреплено на этих колоннах. И это демонтировано. Что наводит на мысль, что же реально представляли собой эти колонны, и вообще это и подобные здания.
Yes, Aleksandr left great greco roman buildings all over the world and the powers that be have destroyed most of them. History is not what they tell us. It took great technology and unity of the masses to achieve such great creations. The people who believe gold miners built San Francisco have to wake up and see we have been lied to. Every major city in America has greco roman foundations, just search for the before and after pictures of the cities built of stone 'that supposedly burned to the ground by simple fire in the first decade of the 1900s
can't believe how they shipped all these people in after the mud flood and gave them all that free masonry, they were really lucky to inherit all those greco roman buildings!
You dont seem to understand that we British have been casting and moulding stone and fine works since the late 1600s to early 1700s. Its called (Coade stone) that was invented in Exeter, England by a lady called Eleanor Coade. Her works are all over the world and has been copied over.. Also this film is at the very same time as World War 1, America got heavy payments from Britain and France during the whole war 1 thats estimated around £4.5 billion.. Thats common information we learn at school but i dont know what your taught
If onlybthey had buikt this and all the other exhibitions a little more sturdy and saved the buildings of all the grand exhibitions (they did save most of them in San Diego and they are amazing) it would have been an amazing asset for all the American cities that had them... if only...
At the end, long after the expo ended, you can clearly see the interior of the wooden structured colums that are so called 'ancient tartarian stone colums'. Oh well, i guess not, but it was a nice thought.
@@inexpertxennial6067 Does it? How about the columns still standing in that very place? The ancient stone structures still in San Francisco to this day? Those other columns were for show so you would think that they created this ancient city. They didn't.
Why is it so hard for people to accept that there was both? There is a clear and obvious combination of both temporary, cheap structures that were built for the fair and the pre-existing building’s. You don’t find it odd that all these Fairs have only 1 permanent building still standing today? They were able to go through the extreme lengths of planning and building out these complexes but couldn’t just make the whole thing permanent? Why not? What’s the point of losing $8 million dollars (Chicago Worlds Fair) for something they’re just going to tear down? You only invest that type of money and infrastructure into something intended to be permanent. It’s 100% obvious they were pre-existing and were destroyed to hide the truth.
@@slimvickins5059 some of the temporary structures were built by us; probably only to match the scale of us. Like people would be way more weirded out if they realized most of the buildings there were designed to accomodate 12+ foot tall humanoids.
Some of us would like to know when this film was produced and narrated by KPIX (radio?). Sounds like the '30's or '40s. but of course there was no TV studio in those days.
It almost feels like when they say "celebrity" at the beginning - it's as though the concept was artificially created to have the populus look outside of themselves for greatness. Current culture feels more and more sick and artificial the more I think about it, the more I learn.
Constructed from temporary materials (primarily staff, a combination of plaster and burlap fiber), almost all the fair's various buildings and attractions were pulled down in late 1915
Right, many years after going to the Fair as a teenager I visited the 1964 New York site again. The temporary buildings were just that, all gone except a few built solidly for the 1939 Fair and still in use, plus a couple of decaying structures that nobody had figured out uses for. Some monuments remained, mainly the big globe and a few historic columns, paths, plazas and the like. The rest was simply not meant to be permanent--too expensive for such a short time. I will say it was weird to return, the ghosts of all those structures and crowds seem to rise up around me again.
@MJs World : All the PPIE buildings were torn down except for a couple of the smaller ones which were relocated. The Ohio building was floated down the bay to a San Francisco suburb and turned into a restaurant. The Palace of Fine Arts, originally slated to be torn down, was kept and the immediate grounds maintained as a City park. Because it was constructed with the temporary materials it was slowly deteriorating and falling apart. In the '80s (I believe) a huge fund raising drive was undertaken and the entire structure was rebuilt using more durable materials so it would be enjoyed and appreciated by future generations.
I''m super confused about what I see - 6:21 shows clearly the bricks of the columns, it's not a temporary building. There's no timetable in any webpage about the construction time or amount of workers. They say they started collecting money 3 years before the opening, it's quite ridiculous story. The most curious element in the fair is the lightened-up concrete columns with a statue on top, so it's a clear sign of some fancy tech. And the last one, 1906 they had the whole city destroyed by the earthquake, how the hell they managed to build the whole city and the fair on top of that. It's just too much weirdness.
These expositions were a big deal. No matter how much you read about the times (I know you don't read, but stay with me), you can't conceptualize just how much people anticipated events like this. A tremendous amount of planning went into it. Long before a city was chosen, they already had everything planned. These temporary buildings, impressive as they were, were not mean to to withstand the test of time.
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It was a group of temporary structures, built on fresh landfill of plaster, lath, and wire. The original plan and contract was to improve the landfill, build the expo, then raze it to build what became the Marina District.
@@-oiiio-3993 Where did you read about this original plan? I would like to read more about all of the logistics that went into preparation, funding, construction, and demolition. Seems like a crazy amount of work!
Mudflood buildings. Tartarian architecture everywhere with some slick revisionist history for the masses. Who would ever build a jeweled city within a city only to demolish it, post haste? Answer: No one...
Pornography was st ill extremely illegal at this time in the USA. (it's still techinically illegal the laws haven't changed) How does this exist? The modern equivalent would be someone selling heroin from a vending machine.
@@gottaproxy8826 There was naked statuary on display in many major cities. The Ten Dollar U.S. Note of Series 1901 had two nude women depicted on its back side. The 'Standing Liberty Quarter' showed a bare breasted Lady Liberty on its original 1916 - early 1917 release before chain mail was added.
This and the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893 are one of the greatest hoaxes of our time. The buildings there were in reality ruins from previous civilizations, not some big temporary glorious facades built out of popsicle sticks and Plaster of Paris like we're told here.
Nobody speaks of "popsicle sticks and plaster" but you Mud Flood idiots. The structures were mostly built of staff applied to wood and steel armatures. They did not exist prior to 1914.
@@telesniper2 You are in absolute denial / delusion. The Bettmann Archive alone contains vast collections of documents and photographs of the fair's construction, administration, demolition. There are numerous other collections, not to mention tens of thousands of family photograph albums that contain images of the fair in progress. I don't suppose you've ever heard of a Kodak Brownie?
The s the same place. I. Used to go to grandma for a month at a time,, I grew up near Salinas. A 10 year old kid in 62’. I would get a student bus pass and explored the city without a adult.. for weeks at a time. Everyday , went somewhere. Went to the movies on market, Golden Gate park , the museums, zoo, , wharf. I remember Fox Warfield , saw , How the West was Won. Lawrence of Arabia, at United Theaters.. taking the cable car from market to the wharf.. I am very grateful for all the San Francisco experiences I had.
CON-struction. It makes no sense whatsoever to build temporary buildings when the whole city was destroyed just a few years ago. The Awesome buildings were there the whole time. Thanks
@@-oiiio-3993 That's funny.. they are digging buildings up EVERY DAY, it's common knowledge now! I've also talked to people who have seen the excavation first hand!! You need to do some research.. WOW!! If these were built in two years, explain the Mature trees genius!?? lol Never mind, nobody wants to hear from a paid shill!!
Yes, yes. The same people reveling in silly hijinks of the day built structures to rival the greatest found in Europe and then just tore it down. Makes sense.
buddy the buildings at the PPIE were basically just plaster husks over mostly wooden frames. they weren't built to last, they were temporary monuments... the palace of fine arts is still there if you wanna see that. it's a misery to maintain because, like i said, it's made of fucking plaster 'to rival the greatest found in europe' lmfao as if the height of european architecture is slapping staff on wood frames and hoping it doesn't crumble. it looked nice for way less expense is the point, and it looked so nice that it's still boggling the minds of guys like you to this day
