Sunday, May 27, 1934

We didn't go to Sunday school or church. Aunt Kate's were over.

Century of Progress - Chicago World's Fair

On May 27, 1934, a renovated and improved Century of Progress Exposition,
representing an investment of $43,000,000, threw open its gates to the people of the
world at 9 o'clock this morning with high hopes that 30,000,000 visitors would pass through
 the turnstiles before Oct. 31, the closing date. Opening day attendance was tallied at 148,664,
exceeding the opening-day record of 1933 by 30,000. President Roosevelt, in a sound picture
address, said the nation's troubles were over for the most part.  

Thursday, May 25, 1933

It rained today. I waited until about four-thirty but it didn't stop raining so Dorothy Brashear and I walked home in the rain. I sure got wet.

1-cent yellow-green Fort Dearborn stamp for the postcard rate
Issued for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair by the US Postal Department on May 25, 1933
This was one of three stamp designs for the 1933 fair, with a total of seven varieties.

In 1933 the city of Chicago staged its second world's fair,
A Century of Progress, to celebrate its centennial. In just one
hundred years the city had grown from a small community formed
around a trading post and a federal fort to the fourth largest city in the world.