Field Notebook: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Quebec, Vermont, Wisconsin. 1933, 1934
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Chicago, Illinois Monday, Sep. 25-1933 A bright and hot day with once shown in the afternoon. Got to the Chicago Fair before nine A.M. and found no one could enter before 9. Then on the inside found none of the buildings open before 10. Or sat at the Boerner Building and waited for the opening. Once inside decided to tour far as I can any Expo. I was at- tended. The Expo is much scattered and dis- persed on an enormous space much cut up by lakes, causing much walking to get about. The grounds begin at the Field Museum or 14th street and go south to 38 street. The new architecture is impressionistic and cheap. All straight lines and enormous flat surfaces. A skeleton frame is put up and large sheet metal or concrete front, tacked on. Steel towers, all flat surfaces everywhere, and painted in the highest blues. No inspiration for the future. It is all me grand and dread costly and a