Download or read book The 1982 World s Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1982 Worlds Fair Knoxville Tennessee USA written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knoxville s 1982 World s Fair written by Martha Rose Woodward and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From May 1 through October 31, 1982, Knoxville hosted the world's fair based on the theme "Energy Turns the World." Expo '82 was the first world's fair to be held in the southeastern United States in 97 years, hosting 22 countries and more than 11 million people. Once referred to as the "scruffy little city by the Tennessee River," Knoxville provided one big party for people to visit from all over to witness the live entertainment, parades, displays, exhibits, musical and sporting events, food, costumes, rides, games, and arcades. The news reports of the day declared the "World Came to Knoxville" as it hosted the official international exposition, fully licensed and sanctioned by the Bureau des Expositions Internationales in Paris, France.
Download or read book The 1982 World s Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunsphere in Knoxville Tennessee written by Martha Rose Woodward and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knoxville's Sunsphere is the iconic tower built as the theme structure for the 1982 World's Fair held in Knoxville, Tennessee. This new book is the author's second editiion containing the history and happenings in one of the South's most famous buildings. It is an excellent source of study for historians and students of all ages.
Download or read book Knoxville Tennessee written by William Bruce Wheeler and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new edition, Wheeler argues that, like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (1925), Knoxvillians have fabricated for themselves a false history, portraying themselves and their city as the almost impotent victims of historical forces that they could neither alter nor control. The result of this myth, Wheeler says, is a collective mentality of near-helplessness against the powerful forces of isolation, poverty, and even change itself. But Knoxville's past is far more complicated than that, for the city contained abundant material goods and human talent that could have been used to propel Knoxville into the ranks of the premier cities of the New South - if those assets had not slipped through the fingers of both the leaders and the populace.
Download or read book World s Fair Knoxville TN Materials written by Mary Greene and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials include addresses and schedules of performers, the Official World's Fair Handbook, information sheets, materials written about the Fair, and correspondence.
Download or read book Official Vacation Guide to the 1982 World s Fair written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tennessee Theatre written by Jack Neely and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most exuberant move palaces of the South, the Tennesse Theatre is a Jazz Age spectacle, a glimmer of a brifely extravagant era, a bold architectural celebration of an astonishing and suddenly popular new form of art. The motion picture changed the way Americans experienced their world,within its broad region, the Tennesseee became the superlative venue for that experiences. Despite its reputation as the finest, the most expensive, the theater with chandeliers and original art and antiques in its lobby, the Tennessee was also the largest, the busiest, and the most popular...Exclusiveness is one of the Tennessee's most effective illusions. After almost a century, the Tennessee is still obligatory on any trip to Knoxville, one of these sights you have to witness at least at once. Designed with dozens of shapes and countless colors to awe, it is distinct in appearance from every other theater in the world. It's a complex and fascinating artifact. But the Tennessee is also a practical edifice, a modern venue for classical music, opera, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and dozens of other genres that benefit from the old theater's excellent acoutiscs, praised in the national media for the quaility of its sound.
Download or read book The 1982 World s Fair written by World's Fair of 1982 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1982 World s Fair written by World's Fair of 1982 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Energy Place written by and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Collect Stamps written by H.E. Harris & Co and published by Whitman Pub Llc. This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses where and how to obtain stamps; tools, accessories, catalogues, and albums; identification of stamps; and the history of stamps. Includes a dictionary of terms.
Download or read book The 1982 World s Fair in Hindsight written by Jack Neely and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knoxville's six-month 1982 World Fair has been called the most successful American exposition since the 1930s and, if judged by attendance among fairs officially sanctioned by the bureau International des Expositions in Paris, it is that... Still, the fair is often derided, memorably in a 1998 episode of the Simpsons. Worse than that, it's been ignored. In the years since it closed, very little has been published about the Knoxville International Energy Exposition an its legacy. Did it make a difference? Was it "historic," as its ads promised? the Knoxville History Project, in partnership with the committee with the University of Tennessee's history department, offer this brief introduction to a big subject."--Back cover.
Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
Download or read book The 1984 New Orleans World s Fair written by Bill Cotter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establishe New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design changes before the gates finally opened. Stretching 84 acres along the Mississippi River, the fair entertained more than seven million guests with a colorful collection of pavilions, rides, and restaurants during its six-month run. While most world's fairs lose money, the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair had the dubious distinction of going bankrupt and almost closing early. However, the $350-million investment did succeed in bringing new life to the area, which is now home to the city's convention center and a bustling arts district" -- back cover.
