View North from Top of Strawberry Hill Prayerbook Cross Dedicated - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

View North from Top of Strawberry Hill

Prayerbook Cross Dedicated January 1, 1894 Gift of George W. Childs of Philadelphia to Quarry below Prayerbook Cross was considered too unsightly, so piping and colored lights were installed to create a waterfall in 1929, called Rainbow Falls.

World’s Columbia Exposition Chicago May 1, 1893 - October 30, 1893

Skilled labor: $3-3.50/day, Team, Wagon or Scraper: $4/day, Unskilled Labor: $1/day

Electric Tower designed by Leopold Bonet. The 266-foot tall iron and steel structure echoed the Eiffel Tower. It was topped by an electric spotlight weighing 6,000 pounds producing a beam of 375 million candlepower.

Bonet Light Focused on Sweeney Observatory

Fine Arts Bldg. Japan Garden Bonet Electric Tower Firth Wheel 49er Mining Camp e k a L w o t S Thompson’s Scenic RR. Esquimaux Village Heidelberg Castle Entrance Gate

Administration Building South End (site of Music Shell today)

Fine Arts Building

Dignitaries: Former President Benj. Harrison visiting Canadian Club House

Emergency Room Exhibit

The Equilbrist Flirt, charm, persuade…. but sell them some gum. That is your role as a Gum Girl!!

Haunted Swing Firth Wheel & Dante’s Inferno

Japanese Village

Cultural Issues: Rickshaw Makoto Hagiwara 1854 - 1925 vs. Geo. Turner Marsh 1857 - 1932

Forty-Niner Mining Camp

Fateful End to the Bonet’s Electric Tower When the Fair closed on July 4th, most of the buildings were promptly demolished, and the building materials sold and removed. But not the Electric Tower. It stood for months, which greatly irritated John McLaren. One morning, dynamite sticks were placed on two of the tower legs, and the tower collapsed. The saboteurs were never identified. The steel was sold for scrap, and the Park staff could finish clearing the site.

“At 10 O’Clock yesterday morning, ....the high steel frame, was thrown from its base by the explosion of a charge of dynamite placed under one of its supports, and a moment later the structure lay on the ground a tortured, mangled mass of wood and steel.” San Francisco Chronicle , January 13, 1896

Pedestrian Tunnels 1896

Superintendent’s Lodge - 1896