Talk:Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries

Not a World's Fair
If The Bronx River in History & Folklore by Stephen Paul DeVillo, p. 149 is correct, The Bronx Exposition failed to be classed as a World's Fair, and opened on 30 May 1918, unendorsed by any international governing body. The original promoters of the scheme had leased the site for the purpose of turning it into an amusement park. See The New York Times, April 30, 1916


 * Interesting comment
 * Unfortunately I am unable to access google books to look look at its phrasing. But I'm not aware of any international governing body that could have endorsed it. The BIE which is now the agreed (by many nations) body wasn't established until 1928 and so not there to do that in 1918 (Admittedly they haven't retrospectively recognised it wither - but that wouldn't have impacted the opening).
 * I have added a reference to Findling and Pelle which does list it as a fair in an Appendix.
 * Icarusgeek (talk) 12:48, 15 February 2016 (UTC)