America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago ... Gale Ferris's gigantic wheel ride -- the first ...
The Midway Sky Eye, North America’s largest traveling Ferris wheel, debuted in Tampa and returns every February.
The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893 ... on George Ferris's 264-foot bicycle-wheel-in-the-sky.