YouTube thumbnails often try to catch your eye with faux-3D "pop", matting part of the scene over bold title text. Funny to run into the same goofy trope in this 1915 postcard advertising the Panama-Pacific Int'l Expo ("Bear in Mind").
(from "San Francisco's Jewel City")
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(By the way: international exhibitions are consistently so dang wild! Hundreds of acres acquired and prepped, enormous unique buildings designed and built, tens of thousands of exhibits placed, sculpture, murals, landscaping, infrastructure—always all within a couple years!)
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eg: A few months before opening the 1915 PPIE in SF, the water supplier got mired in lawsuits & could supply 10% of drinking water needed! Within a few weeks, engineers bored wells in GGP, found groundwater, invented a way to keep sand out, filtered it, and piped it to the Fair.
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Like, cool, yeah, we'll just build a filtering and chlorinating station and pumps for half a dozen newly-bored wells and a million gallons of fresh water *per day*. The Fair opens next week? Eh, no problem. So inconceivable to imagine in SF today!
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I would click on Bear in Mind 10/10 times, regardless of content within (tho I hope it's bears)
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They also like to do this with magazines, which means if you're not familiar with the magazine you can't tell what the name of it is
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That “bear in mind” is so good it should be the flag of San Francisco or something
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