5 Dream Cities America Built for One Summer and Then Destroyed

Chicago 1893, Buffalo 1901, St. Louis 1904, San Francisco 1915 and Chicago 1933. Each world's fair was a full-size city of plaster and timber, put up on marsh, park or landfill, and burned or torn down within months of closing. Here is what each one was, what happened to it, and the single building each of them left standing. In this episode: 00:00 - Intro 00:46 - The White City That Burned 02:43 - The Rainbow City, Sold for Scrap 04:33 - Twelve Hundred Acres of Palaces 06:25 - The City Built to Look Like a Ruin 08:32 - The Fair That Floated Away 11:07 - Outro Is there a lost town near you we should cover? Tell us in the comments.