The 1984 New Orleans World S Fair

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0738568562

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The 1984 New Orleans World's Fair by Bill Cotter Pdf

"In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establishe New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design changes before the gates finally opened. Stretching 84 acres along the Mississippi River, the fair entertained more than seven million guests with a colorful collection of pavilions, rides, and restaurants during its six-month run. While most world's fairs lose money, the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair had the dubious distinction of going bankrupt and almost closing early. However, the $350-million investment did succeed in bringing new life to the area, which is now home to the city's convention center and a bustling arts district" -- back cover.

Author : Linda C. Delery,Robin Osborne,Picayune Publishing, inc. (New Orleans, La.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 0937430056

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1984 World's Fair, New Orleans by Linda C. Delery,Robin Osborne,Picayune Publishing, inc. (New Orleans, La.) Pdf

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0738568449

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The 1984 New Orleans World's Fair by Bill Cotter Pdf

Author : Bill Cotter,Bill Young
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738536067

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair by Bill Cotter,Bill Young Pdf

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.

Author : Christina Bailleul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692065091

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1884-New Orleans-1885 by Christina Bailleul Pdf

From December 1884 through May 1885, New Orleans hosted a now nearly forgotten international event: The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.Seeking to commemorate the first export of cotton from the United States in 1784, the National Cotton Planters Association selected New Orleans, the largest city in the South, as the site for the great international exposition. The citizens and business community of New Orleans, eager to promote the city's recovery from both the ravaging effects of the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction, welcomed the chance to stage an event which would attract visitors and investors to the commercially revitalized city.Established in 1875, the Centennial Photographic Company of Philadelphia was granted exclusive rights to produce all photographic images of the New Orleans exposition. Included in this volume are more than 250 of those images, illustrating New Orleans and the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, all from the personal collection of Kenneth R. Speth.

Author : Junior League of New Orleans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015091635295

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Jambalaya by Junior League of New Orleans Pdf

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1531645100

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1984 New Orleans World's Fair by Bill Cotter Pdf

In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establish New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design changes before the gates finally opened. Stretching 84 acres along the Mississippi River, the fair entertained more than seven million guests with a colorful collection of pavilions, rides, and restaurants during its six-month run. While most world's fairs lose money, the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair had the dubious distinction of going bankrupt and almost closing early. However, the $350-million investment did succeed in bringing new life to the area, which is now home to the city's convention center and a bustling arts district.

Author : J. Mark Souther
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131930

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New Orleans on Parade by J. Mark Souther Pdf

New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans became a city that parades itself to visitors and residents alike. Stagnant between the Civil War and World War II -- a period of great expansion nationally -- New Orleans unintentionally preserved its distinctive physical appearance and culture. Though business, civic, and government leaders tried to pursue conventional modernization in the 1940s, competition from other Sunbelt cities as well as a national economic shift from production to consumption gradually led them to seize on tourism as the growth engine for future prosperity, giving rise to a veritable gumbo of sensory attractions. A trend in historic preservation and the influence of outsiders helped fan this newfound identity, and the city's residents learned to embrace rather than disdain their past. A growing reliance on the tourist trade fundamentally affected social relations in New Orleans. African Americans were cast as actors who shaped the culture that made tourism possible while at the same time they were exploited by the local power structure. As black leaders' influence increased, the white elite attempted to keep its traditions -- including racial inequality -- intact, and race and class issues often lay at the heart of controversies over progress. Once the most tolerant diverse city in the South and the nation, New Orleans came to lag behind the rest of the country in pursuing racial equity. Souther traces the ascendancy of tourism in New Orleans through the final decades of the twentieth century and beyond, examining the 1984 World's Fair, the collapse of Louisiana's oil industry in the eighties, and the devastating blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Narrated in a lively style and resting on a bedrock of research, New Orleans on Parade is a landmark book that allows readers to fully understand the image-making of the Big Easy.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923253

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All the World's a Fair by Robert W. Rydell Pdf

Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.

Author : Kevin Fox Gotham
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814732069

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Authentic New Orleans by Kevin Fox Gotham Pdf

Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter—all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. Gotham begins in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina amid the whirlwind of speculation about the rebuilding of the city and the dread of outsiders wiping New Orleans clean of the grit that made it great. He continues with the origins of Carnival and the Mardi Gras celebration in the nineteenth century, showing how, through careful planning and promotion, the city constructed itself as a major tourist attraction. By examining various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale Gotham ultimately establishes New Orleans as one of the originators of the mass tourism industry—which linked leisure to travel, promoted international expositions, and developed the concept of pleasure travel. Gotham shows how New Orleans was able to become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, especially through the transformation of Mardi Gras into a national, even international, event. All the while Gotham is concerned with showing the difference between tourism from above and tourism from below—that is, how New Orleans’ distinctiveness is both maximized, some might say exploited, to serve the global economy of tourism as well as how local groups and individuals use tourism to preserve and anchor longstanding communal traditions.

Author : Sharon Keating
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 1607101343

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New Orleans Then and Now by Sharon Keating Pdf

Laissez les bon temps rouler in New Orleans, home to Mardi Gras madness, the birthplace of jazz, and one of the most visited cities in America. Discover the extraordinary history and beauty of the Big Easy in New Orleans Then and Now in the exciting new second edition of the best-selling title. Fascinating then-and-now photographs of key landmarks and locations illustrate how much--and how little--this city has changed over the years. Explore the cast iron lace-draped LaBranche buildings in the French Quarter and stroll among the splendorous Greek Revival homes in the Garden District. The tracks for horse-drawn streetcars may be gone, but these elegant structures remain largely unchanged. Bourbon Street is one of the biggest, most successful entertainment and retail areas in the world, attracting millions of tourists and residents every year. In early days, it was mainly a residential street, but today it's full of revelers. After more than a century, the French Market remains a hub for residents and visitors alike. Have a beignet and coffee at world-famous Caf� du Monde--still open 24/7 after all these years.

Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520378094

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Mexico at the World's Fairs by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Pdf

This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : John E. Findling,Kimberly D. Pelle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131625886

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Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions by John E. Findling,Kimberly D. Pelle Pdf

This encyclopedia contains individual histories of each of the nearly 100 World's Fairs and expositions held in more than 20 countries since 1851. This revised and updated second edition of the book originally published as ""A Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions"" in 1990 includes new entries, including essays on the World's Fairs that will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2008 and in Shanghai, China, in 2010. Many of the original essays have been revised and expanded. The topics covered include goods, tourism, architecture, art and culture, and ""exhibition fatigue.""Each fair history includes its own annotated bibliography which provides, when possible, the location of relevant primary sources and comments on the quality of secondary sources. Several appendices provide information on the Bureau of International Expositions, as well as fair statistics, fair officials, fairs that did not qualify for inclusion, and fairs that were planned but never held. The book includes a foreword by Vicente G. Loscertales, the secretary general of the Bureau of International Expositions.

Author : Richard Pare,Jennifer Minner
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 1911164112

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Lost Utopias by Richard Pare,Jennifer Minner Pdf

"The pictures in this book bring the argument about reuse and preservation into focus. What is worthy of retaining and what is dispensable? What are the criteria for considering whether a structure should be retained or demolished? How do you define the parameters of taste and utility in making decisions to preserve or destroy? How will future generations regard the destruction of certain structures, will we be considered cultural vandals for not having retained more of the structures that seemed irrelevant at the time? The preservation argument is heightened in the case of the exhibitions sites, as by definition an exhibition is considered a temporary event."--Page 9.

Author : George Rodrigue
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584790253

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Blue Dog by George Rodrigue Pdf

The inspirational story of Tiffany, the beloved terrier-spaniel who became Blue Dog, the top-selling art phenomenon that has captured America with her mesmerizing eyes and her message of true love conquering all--includes fifty full-color Blue Dog paintings, in a new edition of the original Blue Dog