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Mon 3 Apr, 2006 03:05 am
I bought a postcard/photo of the Eiffel Tower yesterday, in the distance is a Ferris Wheel.
The photo is dated 1914.
Ive had a google but not with much luck.All I found was a ferris wheel being in Paris around 1890's then dismantled around 1906.
I dont expect first hand accounts of seeing this wheel in 1914 but I just wondered if anybody knew anything about it.
http://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/cartes_postales_anciennes/la_grande_roue.htm
According to this Wikpedia article the Wheel was not demolished until 1937. Le Village Suisse now stands on the site.
I think the 1906 reference is concerned with the original Ferris Wheel in Chicago.
Merci beaucoup, c'est tres interestement.Tres better if je could parle francais.
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