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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsArena SeriesStreets of Paris, 506Here is a Paris moved over to the World%u2019s Fair, for entertainment. In narrow, stone paved streets, are gendarmes, sidewalk cafes, quaint shops, chestnut venders, strolling artists, milk maids and musicians. There is music and dancing, wax works and an atelier. There%u2019s a beauty revue, clowns, peep shows, a chamber of horrors. The streets are named as in Paris, the buildings faithful reproductions.The Great Court of the Hall of Science, 704This court covers an area of three acres. Here, visitors gather for festival ceremonies and other special events. Speakers address them from a uniquely constructed rostrum extending into the center of the court from the terrace. Within the huge steel frame behind the rostrum hangs the electrical chart which was used in demonstrating how the different Observatories made contact with the star Acturas, when its rays turned on the lights at the Exposition.