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Great Lakes Exposition Preliminary Program

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Title	Great Lakes Exposition Preliminary Program
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Expositions and fairs Programs
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This preliminary program for the 1936 World's Fair, also known as the Great Lakes Exposition, describes planning for the event and includes a statement of purpose and goals. The ten-page program measures 7.75" x 9.5" (19.69 x 24.13 cm). The exposition grounds spanned 135 acres along Cleveland's lakefront from Public Hall to Municipal Stadium east to 20th street. The fair opened to the public June 27, 1936 and ran for one hundred days. It opened for a second season in 1937, drawing more than 7 million visitors in the two seasons despite the hardships of the Great Depression. Attractions included the "Streets of the World" where visitors could sample food, entertainment, and goods from 40 countries, and the Hall of Progress, which included the "television theatre." The midway offered dozens of rides and amusements, such as "Ripley's Believe it or Not Odditorium" a photo gallery, Venetian boat swing, and the "Custer Car Speedway." The 1937 season featured Billy Rose's Aquacade, a water music and dance spectacular starring Olympians Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weismuller, star of the Tarzan movies.
Creator	Great Lakes Exposition
Date of Original	1936 - 1937 circa
Source	Published material T521 1936.D1 G73 1936x
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Public Library, Science & Technology Department
Type	Text

Title	Om2003_3107068_059
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2003_3107068_059.tif
Image Height	1976
Image Width	1500
File Size	268.143 KB
Full Text	Clcm<L/^^^ i>^oil-^^^i "^Z^^^^^t^^p^^^^^^^^ ^GREAT LAKES EXPOSITION • CLEVELAND JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, 1936

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