What I Learned At The Fair

The St Louis World's Fair introduced the world to the tea bag, and iced tea, popularized the waffle cone, showed the first full cast of a blue whale, and, after it closed,  sent its exhibits to museums all over the country.

Picture via Wikimedia Commons  (in the public domain)

Most of the expos you'll visit these days will not offer the innovations and variety found at the 1904 event, originally put together to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase (1803)and officially titled the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

The Market New York Expo at the Metropolitan Pavillion on West 18th Street, New York, NY was bound to be a less formidable affair. 

And, of course, it was. (See the commentary, on this site, here.)
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