1934 Chicago World's Fair in Technicolor (Part Two)

[SatchmoSings]

Suspensions on cars had to be tougher and cars had to be built higher because roads weren't as good as they are today

[cosycleaner]

Some things never change, like commentators who never know when to shut up!

[Pickinbuddy]

They STILL drive like this throughout New Jersey!

[portsidebear]

Loose the number strip.

[peckerwood57]

He loses a couple gallons of coolant and keeps driving!

[mikemcgee]

half of the color must be lost or faded or it was only shot half 3 strip

[chgojoearchivist]

I would have loved to have visited the Century of Progress Expo! Thanks for sharing with the world!!!!

[eday2010]

Good luck rolling a car these days and driving off again without a dent!! Those cars seem more capable at some things than today's cars.

[theshadow1932]

@eday2010 Not surprising. They didn't have so many BS government regulations to put up with. Try building a car as tough as that AND making it get 20+mpg. Can't be done.

Norm

[k9kmc]

AMERICA DID THIS DURING FIRST GOP DEPRESSION !

[thaihungthinh]

my mother was there 11 years before me

[stlgtrace]

How Beautiful!!! Gee Whiz, I wish I could have seen this!!!!

[robertwmartens]

Apparently the warning STUNT DRIVER ON CLOSED COURSE - DO NOT ATTEMPT did not exist back then! There were no seat belts in those days either. I wonder how many civilians got injured or killed trying to repeat these stunts!

[OlegKostoglatov]

@robertwmartens Most had enough good sense not to try things that looked stupidly dangerous, in those days adults bought cars not teenagers (or people with the mindset of teenagers), and they knew that the people doing these things were stunt drivers. They were raised by mothers and fathers that used to discipline them and were educated to what would be college level now by the 6th grade.

[robertwmartens]

@OlegKostoglatov So true, so true! My grandfather had an 8th grade education, yet he knew more than seniors today. The steep road where my parents live never had a guard rail, yet not once has any car gone over the edge, because everybody always navigated the road cautiously. I'll bet the moment the state puts a guard rail in, there will be accidents.

[robertwmartens]

Amazing, just amazing, to see 3-color film from 1934. Watching those wacky races was fun too. But did we have to see those numbers in the middle?????

[harpman1876]

Thanks much. Very nice.