San Diego Fair

Other times San Diego Fair came up

1. You can keep the rest of this, Panini. It's on Panini! Get your hands off. Anyway, that's the story of the San Diego Fair in 1936. I think there was a sequel to this who became this big celebrity robot because there was a few years later there was the World's Fair in 1939 in New York. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation paraded Electro, who again was a talking cigarette smoking robot.

   No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen ⏱ 00:46:33

2. Then there's no more mention of him in any of the newspapers, but I assume he must have recovered otherwise, it would have been in there. They underplayed news in those days, didn't they? But this was a big exposition in San Diego Fair. Other things they had there was the Gold Gulch, which was like one of the first frontier villages, like a fake Wild West village.

   587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen ⏱ 00:48:18

3. I was looking for something else in the newspaper archives and I just saw this as a tiny little article in the Buffalo News of the 15th of February 1936. Amazing. I had no idea what it was about but then I've since done some more research and it was something called the Mechanical Man and it was at San Diego Fair in 1936, which is a big exposition. There's a guy called Henry C.

   587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen ⏱ 00:45:53