tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post620691240334697506..comments2023-10-22T07:19:57.496-04:00Comments on Oliver's Offerings: A History JunkieJana Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-74242354342695469662009-01-02T10:19:00.000-05:002009-01-02T10:19:00.000-05:00We're too jaded, too worldly. We see pictures of f...We're too jaded, too worldly. We see pictures of far-flung places on our iPhones and computers. It's too easy now. <BR/><BR/>In the late 1890's and early 1900's, the "limitations" in technology allowed the joy of discovery to blossom. The fairs exploited that perfectly. Now we'd just go "meh." Well, some of us at least. <BR/><BR/>I love the ice cream anecdote. Always have. I like to believe it's true.Jana Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00603652346290427856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079851.post-10074142167921404812009-01-01T02:52:00.000-05:002009-01-01T02:52:00.000-05:00Somewhere I have a guide to the Columbian Expositi...Somewhere I have a guide to the Columbian Exposition in German. I'm afraid the days of world's fairs are over, but reading about the great ones makes me wish they weren't. Ah, to be at the St. Louis World's Fair when, at least according to legend, an ice cream stand ran out of paper cups, and in desperation turned to the Syrian waffle-baker next door, rolled up the waffles into a cone, and invented th ice cream cone. If the story isn't true, it ought to be.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.com