Remember the World's Fair? Well, if you're from St. Louis you will, because it is constantly referenced as the glory moment in St. Louis history. It's the setting for Meet Me in St. Louis, it's how we got most of Forest Park, and is overall the best moment in St. Louis' life (besides Mark McGuire, of course, forgive me).
Yesterday I was thinking about all this and was wondering - Do they still have World's Fairs? And if they do, what does one do there? Lovely Wikipedia told me the answers to these questions:
1. Yes they still do, every 5 years, and the next one is in Shanghai, China in 2010
2. From what I can tell, most World's Fairs are about the city and what it is doing to improve technology, the economy, and life for its citizens and for the world. Pretty sweet.
Shanghai for May-October 2010, anyone?
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