PARIS WORLD EXPOSITION 1900
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This deck was published almost a century after the actual exhibition and the deck uses (extracts of) pictures that were taken by others than the official "Grimaud" photographer, J. Kuhn, and thus gives us additional visual information. The deck was published in 1998 by Mijoke from Paris as "La Globe Céleste", after the amazing globe (with a diameter of 45 meters) that was build on a square close the Eiffel tower for the 1900 exposition. The deck also shows pictures from the previous 4 world expositions in Paris on the pip cards (not shown here).
For transportation
purposes, the complete inner-city site was served by an (electrical) elevated
railway which provided access to the Champs de Mars, the banks of the Seine and
the Esplanade des Invalides via a circular track. Running parallel to the
elevated railway was the 3.5 kilometer-long "trottoir roulant" - a
wooden pavement moving at two speeds of 4 and 8 km/h which was installed above
street level and was accessible via transport belts without steps. Its novelty
appeal made it the most popular means of transport, with up to 160,000 people happily
rolling through the exposition site each day, although there were mishaps, like
the Jack of Hearts shows us here.
Still, it was the first one ever and must have caused some difficulties
for the users.
Nowadays we are fully used to rolling stairways, but also still thankful for the long "rolling pavements" in
large subway stations, such as that of Montparnasse.
