Every place at the fair
125 palaces, courts, towers, sculptures, pavilions and shows, each with its architect, dimensions, what became of it, and the sources.
The Walled City (24)
Palace of Food Products
The walled city's northwest palace, where visitors watched a working flour mill and ate their way around the world a nickel or a dime at a time.
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Palace of Education and Social Economy
The southwest corner of the walled city, entered from the west through the huge coffered Half Dome of Philosophy facing the Fine Arts Lagoon.
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Court of the Four Seasons
Henry Bacon's serene west court, an octagon of plain columns, murmuring niche fountains and the seasons in sculpture, the quiet counterpart to the Court of Abundance.
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Court of Palms
A half-court open to the South Gardens between two pink Italian towers, planted with fan palms around a long sunken pool, with The End of the Trail at its door.
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The End of the Trail
Fraser's image of an exhausted Native rider at the edge of the Pacific, the most popular sculpture at the fair and a lasting symbol of the "vanishing race" idea.
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Palace of Liberal Arts
The palace of printing, photography, instruments and communication, standing just west of the Tower of Jewels and directly opposite the main Scott Street gate.
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Palace of Agriculture
The largest palace of the walled city, one of the four that faced the bay, filled with state farm displays, machinery and the agriculture of the world.
Arch of the Setting Sun
The western triumphal arch of the Court of the Universe, crowned by the Nations of the West with its prairie schooner, and inscribed with Western voices from Shakespeare to Whitman.
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Fountain of El Dorado
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's mural fountain of the rush for El Dorado, a crowd straining toward a half-open door before "the magic doors of Opportunity should close."
Tower of Jewels
The 435-foot centerpiece of the fair, a Roman arch-and-tower hung with some 102,000 glass "Novagems" that shook in the wind and blazed under searchlights at night.
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Court of the Universe
The ceremonial heart of the fair: a vast elliptical court of double colonnades, sunken gardens and colossal sculpture where the Nations of the East met the Nations of the West.
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Fountain of Youth
Edith Woodman Burroughs' quiet mural fountain in the east wing court of the Tower of Jewels, a slim adolescent girl above a frieze of youth's voyages.
Arch of the Rising Sun
The eastern triumphal arch of the Court of the Universe, built entirely of wood and crowned by the colossal Nations of the East.
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Nations of the East and Nations of the West
Two colossal plaster processions atop the triumphal arches of the Court of the Universe: the peoples of Asia and Africa on elephant and camel, and the westward pioneers with their prairie schooner.
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Palace of Transportation
The north-row palace of locomotives, automobiles, ships and aircraft, with railroad tracks running right onto its floor.
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Palace of Manufactures
The south-row palace east of the Tower of Jewels, crammed with the world's finished goods, from English pottery to Japanese culture pearls.
Court of Abundance (Court of Ages) and the Tower of Ages
Mullgardt's dark, dramatic east court, a Spanish-Gothic fantasy on the ascent of man, crowned by the 219-foot Tower of Ages and lit at night by gas-breathing serpents and red fire.
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Court of Flowers
Kelham's second half-court, a "fairy place" of paired columns and flower beds between Manufactures and Varied Industries, opening north into the Court of Abundance.
The Pioneer
Solon Borglum's grizzled horseman with axe and rifle, the hopeful counterpart to The End of the Trail, at the entrance to the Court of Flowers.
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Palace of Varied Industries
The southeast corner of the walled city, famous for its florid Spanish portal filled with Ralph Stackpole's laborers.
Palace of Mines and Metallurgy
The northeast palace of the walled city, with a mine in its basement and the federal government's mining and safety exhibits on its floor.
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The Genius of Creation
Daniel Chester French's allegory of creation, placed before the great west portico of the Machinery Palace at the eastern end of the fair's main axis.
Palace of Machinery
The Roman-scaled timber giant at the east end of the main axis, the largest building at the exposition, where Lincoln Beachey made what Todd called the first indoor flight ever undertaken in an aeroplane.
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Fadgl Auto Train
Little white trackless "trains" of low open cars pulled by a motor tractor, which carried more than 4.2 million riders around the grounds for a nickel or a dime.
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South Gardens (7)
Palace of Horticulture
A glass-domed conservatory in a garden-party costume: Byzantine in outline, French in its lattice and garlands, lit at night by searchlights turning inside the dome.
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Y.W.C.A. Building
Julia Morgan's building for the Young Women's Christian Association, just inside the main gate: rest rooms, a cheap cafeteria and a nursery.
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South Gardens
The formal French garden inside the main gate, set around the Fountain of Energy between Festival Hall and Horticulture, and replanted in new colors every few weeks.
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Fountain of Energy
Calder's roaring centerpiece of the South Gardens: a naked horseman, the "Lord of the Isthmian Way," riding the globe in triumph over the Panama Canal.
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Press Building
The exposition's newsroom and information bureau, just inside the main Scott Street gate, where the wire services, local dailies and visiting correspondents worked.
Festival Hall
The exposition's green-domed concert hall in the French theatrical manner, home to one of the largest organs in America and a year of choruses, orchestras and recitals.
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Service Building
The exposition's working headquarters just inside the Fillmore Street gate: offices, hospital, guardroom, lost-and-found and the first building on the site.
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Fine Arts (3)
Pioneer Mother Monument
Charles Grafly's bronze pioneer mother and children, raised by California's women before the Palace of Fine Arts; one of the few exposition sculptures still surviving.
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Palace of Fine Arts
Maybeck's dreamlike ruin of a Roman temple, set behind a lagoon, and the one exposition building that still stands on the site, rebuilt in concrete in the 1960s.
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Fine Arts Lagoon
The still pool that set the Palace of Fine Arts apart from the fair: planted to look like an ancient swamp, and deliberately left without a bridge.
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Marina & North Gardens (6)
The Scintillator and the Exposition Illumination
Forty-eight giant searchlights on a mock fortress at the Yacht Harbor, worked by Marines, painting auroras and "fighting serpents" on the fog over the Golden Gate.
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Yacht Harbor
The harbor at the Marina's west end, built first to land lumber, later home to the Scintillator, fireworks pier and regattas, and still a harbor today.
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Column of Progress
A 185-foot triumphal column at the bay end of the Court of the Universe, topped by an archer loosing an arrow toward the Golden Gate.
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The Marina, the Esplanade and the North Gardens
The fair's open waterfront of shore road and treeless lawns, used for flying, football and fireworks, and preserved as today's Marina Boulevard and Marina Green.
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Exposition Ferry Slip and Ferry Building
The exposition's water gate at the east end of the Marina, where bay ferries landed visitors and railroad car floats delivered freight cars straight onto the grounds.
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Overfair Railway
A miniature steam railroad of "Lilliputian locomotives" running from the Machinery Palace along the Marina to the race track; its locomotives survive.
States & Nations (55)
Argentine Pavilion
A bold French-Renaissance palace with a commanding dome and caryatid portico, holding a jewel-box theater that screened the whole Argentine Republic.
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Australian Pavilion
The "shop window of the Commonwealth", an open-towered pavilion with opals, wheat and wool inside and kangaroos, wallabies and a Laughing Jackass outside.
Pavilion of Bolivia
A Spanish-colonial house with the portal of Potosí's San Lorenzo church and a patio copied from the old Potosí mint, flanked by Tiahuanaco pylons.
Canadian Pavilion
The largest foreign pavilion, three 220-foot halls of dioramas, live beavers, wheat-belt trains and real apples behind a colonnade guarded by British lions.
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The Forbidden City (Chinese Pavilion)
A walled compound of Chinese palace halls, prefabricated in Shanghai and set up by Shanghai workmen whom the Official Guide says were admitted by special act of Congress while the Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers.
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Pavilion of Cuba
A rose-tinted Havana mansion whose tower closed the vista down the Avenue of Palms, with a fountain patio where Sunday dances were held.
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Pavilion of Denmark
A shingled medieval castle of three towers, one echoing Kronborg at Elsinore, a Danish-American meeting hall with no exhibits at all.
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French Pavilion (Palace of the Legion of Honor)
A replica of the Paris Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, built in nine weeks amid the war, later the model for San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum.
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Pavilion of Greece
A German potash syndicate's abandoned building, finished by the Exposition and sold to Greece, where casts of 180 Greek sculptures stood above a sunken garden.
Pavilion of Guatemala
A palatial domed pavilion on the high ground south of Japan's garden, where coffee was served and a marimba band drew crowds onto the stairs.
Pavilion of Honduras
The first foreign pavilion begun and finished, a two-story classical house behind three arches, standing alone for months as proof the world was coming.
Italian Pavilion
A little gray Italian town of eight buildings, with a Palazzo Vecchio-style tower and a Piazza Grande, "It did more than represent Italy. It was Italy."
Pavilion and Gardens of Japan
Three acres of transplanted Japanese garden, ton-weight rocks, cascades, dwarf trees and tea houses, around a golden pavilion modeled on Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji.
Netherlands Pavilion
A rose-domed, tile-banded pavilion with a 128-foot tower, big clock dials and 44 flagpoles, devoted largely to the Dutch East and West Indies.
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New Zealand Pavilion
A domed, east-facing pavilion of trophies, trout and geyser films, built to lure travelers and sportsmen to the Dominion.
Pavilion of Norway
A rugged timber chieftain's hall on boulder foundations, set among young spruce on a rise with a view of the whole fair.
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Pavilion of Panama
The last foreign pavilion dedicated, and, oddly for a fair celebrating the Canal, empty and closed all season.
Pavilion of Portugal
A small Manueline-Gothic pavilion guarded by statues of Prince Henry the Navigator and Pedro Cabral, filled with photographs and dioramas of Portugal's monuments.
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Pavilion of Siam
A royal residence built in Bangkok, shipped across the Pacific in pieces and reassembled, tiered, lacquered and walled in translucent glass.
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Swedish Pavilion
Ferdinand Boberg's cluster of gambrel-roofed halls under a chiming bell tower, packed with Swedish steel tied in knots and home crafts.
Turkish Pavilion
A domed and minareted palace with a copy of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque beside it, where Muslim visitors came to pray.
Arkansas and Oklahoma Building
One building shared by two states, the westernmost refuge on the grounds, with a glazed observation room over the Golden Gate.
California Building (California Host Building)
The Exposition's official host building, a vast Mission-style complex of towers, patios and county exhibit halls on the bay shore, covering about five acres.
Hawaiian Building
A small travertine pavilion with the fair's most crowded aquarium, reef fish in water hauled weekly from beyond the Farallones.
Idaho Building
A simple two-story travertine building with end pavilions on the Marina, the first State building completed, and the only one with rooms for visiting teachers.
Illinois Building
A three-story shrine to Lincoln facing the Esplanade, with a room of his portraits, letters and life mask, and a great organ.
Indiana Building
A Queen Anne manor house of Bedford stone on a three-cornered lot at the Federal Concourse. It had no exhibits, only a library of Hoosier authors.
Iowa Building
A long, low building with a deep portico of paired columns, built with money Iowans raised themselves, next to the livestock show ring.
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Kansas Building
A two-story colonial building whose porch capitals, fittingly, hung ears of corn from Ionic volutes.
Maryland Building ('Homewood')
A brick copy of Homewood, the Carroll family mansion near Baltimore, furnished as two historic period rooms.
Massachusetts Building
A two-thirds-size copy of Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, its golden dome closing the vista down the Esplanade at the Federal Concourse.
Mississippi Building
A travertine copy of the Governor's Mansion at Jackson, with a semicircular Ionic portico, built without a state appropriation.
Missouri Building
A colonial mansion with a two-story portico and an octagonal cupola, whose big hardwood dance floor made it a social favorite.
Montana Building
A two-story building with extended wings and a broad veranda on the Marina, its roomy interior like a prosperous Western ranch house, thought by many the most homelike of the State buildings.
Nevada Building
A classical building with a broad veranda facing the Marina, opened with a Western housewarming on February 22, 1915.
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New Jersey Building (Trenton Barrack)
A travertine copy of the old Trenton Barrack of the Revolution, with tall-posted galleries, dormers and green blinds around a hollow square.
New York State Building
The first State building on the Esplanade, a three-story classical clubhouse of broad porches and columns, set in a garden of Empire State trees.
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City of New York Building
Bertram Goodhue's windowless, temple-like hall, lit from the roof, where a great model of Manhattan rolled aside on rails for daily films.
North Dakota Building
A triangular two-story building shaped to its triangular lot, where the state's grain, coal and potatoes were piled "in heaps and pyramids."
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Ohio Building
A copy of the Ohio Statehouse at Columbus, with a broad Doric portico; after the fair it floated down the Bay on a raft and lasted until 1956.
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Oregon Building
"A Parthenon with the bark on": 48 unpeeled Douglas-fir logs, one for each state, standing in for the marble columns of Athens.
Pennsylvania Building
Henry Hornbostel's Independence Hall-inspired building, two red-brick wings joined by a columned loggia that became the shrine of the Liberty Bell.
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Philippine Building
A long, low building of island hardwoods, capiz-shell windows and palma-brava columns around a patio where the Constabulary Band played.
Texas Building
A Spanish-mission building suggestive of the Alamo, created by an all-woman commission after the Legislature balked.
Utah Building
A Corinthian building faced in Utah plaster, famous for its working model of the Bingham copper mine, two floors high.
Virginia Building (Mount Vernon)
A careful copy of Washington's Mount Vernon, furnished with his relics, including the bed he died in.
Washington State Building
A French-Renaissance hall with eagle-topped pavilions, a skylit central court and a column of apples slowly revolving in the middle.
West Virginia Building
A colonial mansion with a Tuscan portico facing the Marina, famed for its nine-foot open fireplace.
Wisconsin Building
A two-story classical mansion with paired-column porticos; after the fair it was barged to Marin County.
Avenue of Nations
The diagonal boulevard through the foreign section, running northwest from the Avenue of Palms past the Palace of Fine Arts to the Federal Concourse and the Marina.
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Avenue of States
The bayside street of the State section, running between two ranks of State buildings, one facing the Esplanade, the other the Marina and the Golden Gate.
Federal Concourse
The circular plaza where the Esplanade, the Avenue of Nations and the Olympian Way met, closed on the west by the golden dome of the Massachusetts Building.
Inside Inn
The only hotel inside the fairgrounds: a 638-room concession near the Baker Street gate that did more business than any other concession at the fair.
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Live Stock Section
The model stock farm at the west end of the grounds: eight big barns around an oval show ring where livestock competed for $426,950 in premiums.
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Race Track, Aviation Field, Drill Grounds, Polo Field and Stadium
The fair's western sports ground on Presidio land, a mile horse track enclosing polo, drill and athletic fields, whose infield became the Army's Crissy Field.
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The Zone (29)
Captain, the Educated Horse (and Madame Ellis)
A counting, color-matching, bell-ringing horse named for the captain of the Maine, sharing a theater with a blindfolded mind-reader, one of the Zone's best-paying acts.
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Thompson's Scenic Railway
The first Zone concession finished and running: a scenic coaster whose front of elephants was colored to Jules Guérin's order.
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London to the South Pole
A theatrical re-creation of Antarctic exploration and Scott's last expedition, admired, unprofitable, and finally recycled as a backdrop for a string of smaller shows.
The Panama Canal (operating model)
A five-acre working model of the Canal, toured from a moving grandstand while phonographs piped a lecture into telephone receivers at every seat.
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Tehuantepec Village
A Mexican village of artisans, garden and theater, fronted by painted Aztec gods and the spieler King Karlo, which Todd reckoned most visitors would call the prettiest show on the Zone.
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Alt Nürnberg (Old Nuremberg)
A German restaurant village in the style of old Nuremberg's market place, the fair's fifth-highest-grossing concession.
Creation
A theatrical spectacle of the first chapter of Genesis, the parting of the waters to Adam and Eve, and one of the Zone's top earners.
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The Dayton Flood (later 'Escorial')
A miniature Dayton swept by the 1913 flood, fronted by a plaster giant holding back the floodgates; it failed and gave way to the hit painting "Escorial".
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Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg
A round cyclorama building on the Zone's south side showing the Battle of Gettysburg in a 360-degree painting.
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Shamrock Isle / Streets of All Nations
An Irish village with a Blarney Castle tower that failed as Irish and succeeded, retitled, as the Streets of All Nations.
Alligator Farm
Crocodiles from the Nile and alligators from the Everglades behind an Egyptian gateway and a plaster Memnon.
Chinese Pagoda and Village
A tall pagoda and walled village at the Laguna bend whose "Underground Chinatown" drug-horror show outdrew its Chinese culture.
The Zone
A 65-acre amusement city strung along one 3,360-foot street from Fillmore to Van Ness, which Todd called the largest amusement district ever built by an exposition.
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Infant Incubators
Martin Couney's glass-walled nursery, where premature babies were kept alive in incubators as the public looked on.
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The Submarines
A simulated undersea voyage entered through the mouths of giant plaster bullheads beneath Neptune and his rearing sea horses, admired from outside, avoided inside.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona (Santa Fe Railway)
The Santa Fe Railway's five-acre painted canyon, ridden in open-sided railway cars, with a Pueblo village on the roof of its entrance.
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Toyland Grown Up
Frederic Thompson's five-acre "exposition of amusements", giant tin soldiers, a 90-foot suffragette and a boat canal under the floors, and an expensive flop.
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Neptune's Daughters (the Diving Girls)
A water show in the Zone's Natatorium: Neptune rose from a great round pool and lured the Diving Girls down into his realm.
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The '49 Camp
A gold-rush mining camp with a saloon, dance hall and suspiciously authentic gambling, "the real bad boy of the Zone."
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Japan Beautiful
A free-admission Japanese village of games, tea houses and bazaars behind a 120-foot gilded Buddha that faced the Zone's Plaza.
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The Evolution of the Dreadnaught (later 'World Wars')
A naval spectacle tracing fighting ships from ancient galleys to the modern dreadnaught, later restaged around the sinking of the Lusitania.
Samoan Village
A village of Samoan huts shipped from the islands in some 200 packages, and more popular, Todd says, than the Australasian village next door in the Zone's run of "native villages."
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101 Ranch Wild West
The Oklahoma 101 Ranch's Wild West show, housed by the Exposition itself, whose cowboys, cowgirls and Native American performers led a daily parade around the grounds.
The Aeroscope
Joseph B. Strauss's counterweighted steel arm that lifted a two-story cab of 120 passengers in a slow spiral to 265 feet above the Zone.
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Safety Racer
L. A. Thompson's twin-track racing coaster: two trains launched together and the heavier load won, one of the Zone's surest moneymakers.
Somali Village (later Streets of Seville)
A "native village" of Somali performers near the Van Ness gate that ended in deportation; its space became a bloodless Spanish bullring.
Yellowstone Park and Old Faithful Inn (Union Pacific)
The Union Pacific's four-acre topographic model of Yellowstone, with erupting geysers and a copy of Old Faithful Inn where the Exposition Orchestra played.
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Mysterious Orient / Streets of Cairo
An "Oriental village" of Turkish theater, coffee booths, camels and sword dancers at the far Van Ness end of the Zone.
Stella
A painted nude in a lighted frame, ten cents a look, the Zone's great mystery hit and the source of 1915's catchphrase "Have you seen Stella?"
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