Welcome to the World's Fair Newsletter: June 2015

Website Update Progress

On May 29, with 608 pages re-coded the website is about 55% complete.

What this means is that those of you who use a mobile device should be able to view the site without having to enlarge the screen in order to read the content.

Hopefully I'll have the site completed by the end of July, perhaps a bit sooner.

I would greatly appreciate your input:

1. Are those pages working on your current device?
2. Is the new Navigation Menu workable for you? Are you able to find everything?
3. What, if anything, would you like to see different?

New Photos for the Web:

As most of you know, this website and my book came about because of my father's 272 photos that were passed down to me after his passing in 2000. (read more on the About page.)

In 1939 dad didn't visit the Fair alone, he went with his sister, Jackie. Multiple copies of Fair photographs were made and each had a set of the wallet-size images.

Sometime either before or after my aunt's passing, her set of photos were passed down to her daughter Cathy. In turn, Cathy gave the photos to her daughter Kara.

A couple weeks ago I received a package in the mail from Kara containing around 250 photographs of the Fair. While many of these were ones that were in the set my father left me, there are 80 photos that were not. Out of these, I'll use some of them to fill in missing pavilions or supplement existing sections of the site.

There are a few photos that I need your help with. For example the photo on the left of the Queens Host House.

I have not seen that building before and would like to know more about it. Where was it located and what was it for? If you can help, please contact me.

I thank Kara for her consideration and thoughtfulness in sending me the photographs so they can be shared with everyone.