Ford and a Century of Progress (1934)

View of children in play area and on various rides at the 1934 Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago, Illinois. Views of several village exhibit areas including Belgium, Ireland, Tunisia, Mexico, and Holland. The Goodyear blimp flies over the Wings of a Century exhibition building, which features the development of transportation in exhibits and dramatic presentations. Views of crowds walking through the fair and in an entertainment area featuring ventriloquists and a piano player. Views of the fair at night. An aerial view of the Ford Exposition building, Henry Ford and Edsel Ford getting out of a car in front of the building, and scenes inside the building of various Ford Motor Company exhibits and participants, including a huge revolving globe inside the Rotunda and women testing speedometers.

Unique Number: THF_HFS_V.200.FC.4116

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ford Motor Company
• exhibitions
• Henry Ford
• Edsel Ford
• 1933-1934
• Chicago (Ill.)
• advertising
• automobiles
• exhibits
• Goodyear blimp
• Ford Exposition building
• dancing
• national
• pageant
• visitors

[ForzaJersey]

Learn your history, the Federal Reserve caused the Depression and Hoover and FDR prolonged it. America was the last economy to recover from the Great Depression. Remember in Europe it was only a depression because they recovered by the early 1930s. By 1939, the depression was a distant forgotten memory in Europe. Thank God liberals were there to squander an entire decade of American life.

[k9kmc]

THIS WAS DONE DURING FIRST GOP DEPRESSION !

[Mr99BOXER]

As modern as our exhibts today at Epcot! And the characters are real natives of their land. The towns architecture wonderful!! The children's amusement rides as good as Six Flags!