[CLOSED] The "It's About Time I Had Another Giveaway Because H8_modern is so Awesome" contest

OK. I wasn't clear. Warm milk for the kittens and cotton candy for the orphaned children.

Oh. I forgot about setting up a booth to collect clothes for the poor.

 

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I think your fluffy kitty heard about my warm milk and cotton candy give-a-way.

 

Who knows, maybe the newly rainbow colored furniture will be a real hit!

 

LLoolll

 

That's a good idea so I will take it to the next step. I think I will use mine to start up the Salvation Army and a Goodwill!

 

I guess I took some liberties with your premise. Granted, I was drinking my first coffee of the day and wasn't properly caffeinated so maybe I didn't read the rules closely enough. I imagined I went back to that time as a kid with my family living in Chicago. I imagined what I would have done at the fair and what I would have brought home as a souvenir. Given that as a premise, I probably would have had a blast spending most of the $5 there. Seeing Houdini and Tesla would have been at the top of the list followed by rides (especially the moving sidewalk, trains, and ferris wheel), trying the new-fangled burger and chewing gum, and trying to have as much fun as possible. Bringing the needles home for my mother would have been a way to thank her for giving me the $5 and letting me have a great day. I probably should have brought her home a zipper too.

I hope I would have avoided the mass-murderer Dr. Henry Howard Holmes who set up shop in the "Castle". Houdini, Holmes, and the Expo were featured in an interesting episode of Timeless (http://ew.com/recap/timeless-season-1-episode-11/) this past January.

I'm not sure how much the needles cost at the fair, but I found an ebay listing asking for about $100 for the full package (not sold).

 

I'm pretty sure I had a relative who went to the exposition (I found this coin at my great aunts house after she passed, her family had lived there since 1904), so I would take the time to try to find him. And then I would buy him this half dollar for me to find in the future! Probably would end up destroying the space time continuum.


Then I think I honestly would just go and wing it. It would be interesting just to go out and wander the city. See what Chicago was like back then. But I think what I would really want to do is see if I could find any civil war vets and have a talk with them. I'm sure there were plenty of them around then. Sorry I don't have any specific dollar amounts, but I think there's just too much to think and do to really plan. I know I'd see something not on my "to look at" list and spend some money there.

 

I guess there was a post office at the fair, so I'd buy the Columbian Commem. stamps up to the 1$ denomination, as well as the first US prestamped post cards, and send a card to my great-grandparents (Who is this Sparrow person in Chicago??); ride the Ferris wheel twice; and since I have a macabre sense of history, hire a horse drawn cab to take me to H.H. Holmes "castle" at 63d and Wallace, where the first documented serial killer in US history plied his trade. But I wouldn't take the tour, just walk around the block-long building, then return to the fair for a Blue Ribbon beer and a box of Crackerjack (the newfangled snack) and if I had a couple of cents left over, elongate them in one of the many machines around the site.
These were probably pretty cheap, being made of aluminum:

 

Very nice, I don't have an 1892 yet (just 1893), that one has a very lovely look to it.

 

This isn't an entry but I'm having fun reading some of these posts

Lord M's horking kitten imitation was particularly funny.

Might as well pile with a related exonumic item that never sees the light of day...



The story of how I came to own this is somewhat embarrassing. It was at the very beginning of my ancient coin collecting (not long ago-- only 4 years!) and there was a coin of great importance to me in a particular auction. The coin was early in the ancients section and I hadn't bid with this auction company before. I didn't know how it worked and wanted to make sure there weren't any delays when clicking bid (sometimes you have to click "confirm" on another screen), etc.

I looked for an inexpensive lot occurring earlier in the auction. There were no such candidates among ancient coins. I didn't intend to win, just to test the bidding waters. This is what I picked, and my single bid won.

It's pretty cool but doesn't really float my numismatic boat. If it appeals to anyone else, PM me about a trade

 

Dang it. I forgot to say that I'd mail myself the 2017 Sports Almanac like Biff did in "Back to the Future 2" (I think).

 

Awesome @lordmarcovan. Fun idea for a giveaway.

What would I do? That's easy because it's a pretty similar pattern to what I do on all my vacations.

I would first find a good bottle of Jack (introduced in 1875) and then pay a visit to this soda fountain from the fair...

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I would thus become the official inventor of Jack-and-Coke 3 years before Coke was even a thing. Since a cheap bottle of whisky would have been around $0.25 then I figure I could get all the above I needed for about $1.

I would visit as many of the displays as I could (especially Tesla's). I would listen to Susan Anthony speak at the fair then blow everyone's mind by gifting her one of these.

I would then ride the Farris wheel as many times as I could...

...while still having enough money left over to get one of those creepy, black and white, no smile early photographs made.

I would then come home, find this photo and use it to try and convince people that I was a vampire.

So in summation I would

• Get very drunk
• Do stuff
• Become a vampire

 

Wait a minute... if @Nyatii was responsible for WWII and I was playing the vampire theme, could I have been responsible for...

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Wait no! I take it all back! I don't wanna go to the fair... I'm sorry everyone