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There was an elaborate model city at the fair.
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==Before the Fair==


==Description==
As one entered the Fair from the Lindell Street, the Model City was the first attraction you would see. 
The Model City was a four-block area that showcased how an idea town could look like. This was an important attraction for city planners, officials as well as administrators and civilians.  1,200 feet of roadway featured ten different variations of paving. There were illuminated signs, water and sewer service, lamp posts, public clocks, fountains, as well as a miniature city park all to illustrate what can be done in a town.
The Model Street, was equipped with an emergency hospital with a full corps of physicians, nurses, attendants, and latest equipment. The staff, consisted of 9 surgeons, 9 orderlies, 9 stretcher bearers, 10 trained nurses and 5 ambulances, all under the  charge of Dr. L. H. Laidley, Medical Director of the Exposition. Jefferson Guards could summon an ambulance  from anywhere in the fairgrounds. 
It was even  suggested that the Model City be called "Spotless Town!"
National Cash Register as well as the Salvation Army both sponsored a building at the Model City.
Major cities including: New York, Atlantic City, Kansas City, and San Francisco had buildings along the street. The New York building alone cost $86,500 dollars to build, complete  with a subway model, and numerous plans for bridges and tunnels.
The Model Town Hall sat on Municipal Street. The building cost 15,395 dollars to build.
On of the most important areas of Model City was the attraction's four-building Model Playground and Nursery that was designed by Ruth Ashley Hirschfield of New York City, a crusader for the establishment of playgrounds and childcare programs, who hoped the Fair’s Model Playground would become an example for all communities to follow. If parents wanted to see the Fair on their own, they would drop off  a child (or children), into the experienced hands and watchful eyes of  nurses. There, they were tagged and let to roam around  and play.  They were given two meals a day, bathed and provided beds if needed.
The Model Playground was filled with pavilions, canopies, cottages, croquet and basketball courts and restrooms with tubs and showers.
Older children we allowed to use gymnastic  equipment which included:  parallel bars, ladders, springboards, swings, see-saws, tumbling mats  and trapezes, or partake in supervised games.
Any lost child found by the Jefferson Guard, were taken to the Model Playground.
The Model City playground was awarded a grand prize by the Exposition’s Social and Economic Jury.


==Buildings==
==Buildings==
===Exhibits===
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*[[American Inn]]  
*[[Artificial Stone]]
*[[Automobile Charging Station]]  
*[[Automobile Charging Station]]  
*[[Bank]]
*[[DeForrest Wireless Tower]]
*[[Drug Store]]
*[[Emergency Hospital]]
*[[Express Office]]
*[[Guild Hall]] (Scranton Correspondence School)
*[[Liquid Air Exhibit]] (British Royal Commission)
*[[Model Playground]]
*[[Official Photographer's Studio]]
*[[Parcel Checking Pavilion]]
*[[Police Station]]
*[[Police Station]]
*[[Press Building]]
*[[Press Building]]
*[[Town Hall]]
*[[Town Hall]]
*[[Emergency Hospital]]
*[[United States War and Field Hospital]]
*[[Women's Anchorage Building]]
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===Municipal Exhibits===
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*[[Kansas City Casino]]  
*[[Kansas City Casino]]  
*[[New Jersey Road Exhibit]]
*[[New York City]]  
*[[New York City]]  
*[[St Paul and Minneapolis]]  
*[[Twin Cities Museum]]  
*[[San Francisco]]  
*[[San Francisco]]  
*[[Bank]]
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*[[Express Office]]
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*[[Guild Hall]] (Scranton Correspondence School)
===Restaurants===
*[[Liquid Air Exhibit]] (British Royal Commission)
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*[[Model Playground]]
*[[American Inn]]  
*[[New Jersey Road Exhibit]]
*[[United States War and Field Hospital]]
*[[Behnke & Willmann Restaurant]]
*[[Behnke & Willmann Restaurant]]
*[[Bungalow Restaurant]]
*[[Bungalow Restaurant]]
*[[DeForrest Wireless Tower]]
*[[Drug Store]]
*[[Fleischmann Restaurant]]  
*[[Fleischmann Restaurant]]  
*[[Government Restaurant]]  
*[[Government Restaurant]]  
*[[Official Photographer's Studio]]
*[[Parcel Checking Pavilion]]
*[[Rice Kitchen]]
*[[Rice Kitchen]]
*[[Voney's]] Quick Meal Restaurant  
*[[Voney's]] Quick Meal Restaurant  
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==See also==
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==




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