Volume 11 , Issue 20

The Pike At the 1904 Worlds Fair

Has your ancestors ever strolled "The Pike" ... at the St. Louis World's Fair? Have you heard any of their stories of the 1904 World's Fair and this famous mile-long street called "The Pike?"

The Pike was a street a mile long, solidly lined with amusements, more varied, more elaborate and more costly than any previous exposition had ever contained. The broad interior street did not extend the entire length of the Pike, but turned south at the two ends, which made wide entrances, which with additional smaller entrances at convenient points.

The Eastern entrance was marked with the statue "Cowboys Shooting Up A Western Town" by Fredrick Remington.

In this famous street, some fifty entertainments had been installed, at a total cost of several millions. An army of attendants cared for these exhibitions, and people from far and from near contributed to the entertainment.

When night came, and the exhibit palaces were closed, the throng was on the Pike. Everyone on the grounds, took a stroll down the Pike, to see the life, motion, color and light, to hear the bands and listen to the ingenious gentlement whose wits were sharpened in the competition for patronage, and whose vocal powers, assisted by megaphones, vied successfully with the brass bands.
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