pat@ih1ap.UUCP (Patrick A. Fargo) (02/13/84)
I posted this to net.general too. Does anybody know anything about the recent advertisements concerning the World's Fair in New Orleans this year. I thought like the Olympics, the fair was held only every four years. Is'nt Chicago going to host the 1992 fair? Thanks- P.A. Fargo AT&T Bell Laboratories
ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/15/84)
[This is a corrected version; the first posting was cancelled] I thought like the Olympics, the fair was held only every 4 years. No, World's Fairs happen at random intervals. There is an organization that you can go to if you are planning to hold an exhibition and they can say, yes, you meet the requirements, you can call it a World's Fair. Two require- ments that I seem to remember is that it can't run for more than 6 months in one year, and that the buildings have to be demolished when it's over (or at least most of them). There was a 2-year WF in New York in 1965-66, one in 1967 in Montreal, then 1970 in Osaka, but what with the state of the global economy, there have only been one or two since then (and I'll believe in future ones when I see them). The last one was in Knoxville about 1983 and was much smaller than they have been generally in recent decades. Like Olympics, WFs generally lose money. Montreal and its long-time mayor Jean Drapeau are sometimes resented in the rest of Canada for having lost money on one of each in less than 10 years. (They are also praised because Olympics and WFs attract tourists and are generally good PR.) Mark Brader (Toronto)