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1. The 1962 Century 21 Exposition in Seattle offered
a topless puppet show in which an evil marionette tickled a nude damsel to death and a massive bat ripped the clothes off a writhing stripper.
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2. Visitors at St. Louis’ Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 could see a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt sculpted in butter, and one of a bear made out of prunes.
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3. Explorer Admiral Peary's Eskimo dogs were displayed in the "Dogs of All Nations” exhibit at San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
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4. The 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, CA, offered a nudist colony with 50 members who played volleyball and read books in front of more conventionally attired attendees. |
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5. Toasting the end of Prohibition, 50,000 visitors gulped down 1,000 barrels of beer on Personal Responsibility Day at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition in 1933.
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6. Salvador Dali designed a surrealist house for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, which included a box office shaped like a fish’s head, mummified cows, rubber telephones, and topless swimmers. |
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With robots who smoked cigarettes and maps made of rubies, it’s easy to believe that anything could and did happen at world expos since the first one took place in 1851. Take this quiz and see if you can separate the real from the ridiculous.