Looking Back to 1904: St. Louis World's Fair
I found an old souvenir while cleaning out my mother's house recently, dividing up her stuff amongst three of us siblings, when I discovered an old coin. It's light, like silver, and has St. Louis World's Fair 1904 stamped on it. Looks like one of those machines at tourist attractions that stamps out a penny with a new inscription (perhaps a silver dollar was used instead?). The significance? Also stamped was: S.C. Davis...my great-grandfather.

So I google St Louis World's fair and find that it was a pretty big deal in 1904. Hopefully, some of my St. Louie brethren wil help me out here with some diatribe of their own about the Fair. So please check out the link and read about a true Modern Marvel that I would never have known about otherwise, had I not found the souvenir, and if my great-grandfather hadn't bugged the heck out of his parents to get that souvenir (He was four years old in 1904).

Oh, I just read more and found that the Olympics were held in St Louis in 1904, the first ever to be held in the United States of America! Get your history on!