Keeping Expo Poor Man's Carnival; 25c Show Average; Rides Less
Source: Variety, 16 May 1933, pg. 63.
Somehow or other the public, or a portion of it, seems to have used paper and pencil and arrived at $90 as the figure necessary to see the World's Fair. So far as representing expenditures within the Exposition grounds this estimate is greatly exaggerated but nevertheless persists. It is widely circulated among people outside the profession. Fair is probably aware of this and combating it.
$38 Better Guess
Actual estimates of the total cost of missing nothing at the Expo can't be made but a candid opinion expressed by the highest authority in the Fair itself names $38 as cover-in everything. Official estimate on the time required to see the Exposition is 10 days. that means a light once over for most of the scientific stuff.
As a matter of fact except for a small group of prices the rates are nominal throughout and preparations are to make it a poor man's carnival rather than a plutocrat's playground. A conspicuous effort independent of the Exposition is the wholesale setting up along all the automobile highways leading into the city of elaborate tourists camps. These promise to take on the size and magnitude of big business. Allen tours which will have four sites in the suburbs advertise portable bungalows with all modern plumbing, etc., maid service, bell boys, porters, clerks, and general hotel set-up, plus breakfast every morning at from $18 to $25 per week according to number of persons per bungalow.
