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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