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Trivia
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A
snap-shot of Expo '88 odd-ball statistics
Sourced from the World Expo '88 Official Newspapers 'The
Courier-Mail' and 'The Sunday Mail',
and 'Expo Excitement', Event Publishing, Australian
Consolidated Press
Did you know that....
....ticket-selling - one
person on the Expo site sold $AUD22,345 worth of
tickets in a single four-hour shift.
....the Expo had its own gold mint and refinery
at the Pavilion of Western Australia - where under
strict supervision of Pavilion attendants, 72 gold
ingots were melted and moulded every day, recycling
the gold used on each occasion. Each ingot was worth
$AUD40,000.
....every evening at the conclusion of each Expo
day, a state-of-the-art 15-minute fireworks,
music, and laser show was presented at the Expo River
Stage venue, with the Brisbane CBD as backdrop. Over
300kg of fireworks were used in each evening's display
- over 55,200kg for the six months of the Expo.
....Night Companion - the Expo's symbol tower -
is equivalent in height to a 20-story building, took 2
months to construct, and used granite, copper and
fibreglass in its construction, including 160 tonnes
of steel, and 17 square metres of 23-carat gold leaf
for its dome top. Night Companion (also popularly
known as the 'Sky Needle') also featured a powerful
xenon beam search light which surveilled the Brisbane
skies every evening of the Expo, allowing for
non-interference with the Brisbane Airport Tower, and
could be seen up to 60km away. The tower was
bicentennial Australia's largest art commission, and
was estimated to have costed $AUD4.0 million in its
construction. A circular bronze canopy prominently
featured at 10 metres height from the tower's base.
'Sky Needle' is now situated just a few hundred metres
from it's former location, and owned by business
magnate Steve 'Stefan' Ackerie, of Stefan
Hairfashions.
....World Expo '88's Entertainment budget
produced over 30,000 shows at the Expo, with a total
audience of over 4.5 million persons.
....Over 6 million passengers rode the Expo's
popular free with admission Monorail - which
travelled a total of 150,000 kms for the six months of
the Expo - or 8,000 complete circuits.
....1 Hour photo shops were all the rage at the
Expo - representing the latest in convenience
and speed - official Expo camera film sponsor Fuji
Film developed over 4 million photographs during Expo
at their three Fuji Film Booths - enough photos to
cover the total area of the Expo's sun-sails.
....The Expo City Marching Band walked a total
of some 5 kms every day of the Expo's six months - and
Monorail Attendants walked the equivalent of the
distance between Brisbane and Sydney during their work
- over 1,000 kms.
....The Expo's LOSTOTS computer data-base
helped over 4,000 lost children find their parents
during the Expo.
Food?
Did you know that.....
19,000 meals were served every hour every Expo day,
including...
Over 16 million scoops of ice-cream
17 million hamburgers
1.4 million hot dogs
5 million chicken nuggets
8 million buckets of hot chips
340 trawler loads of seafood
90,000 kgs of spaghetti
the equivalent of 650 family swimming pools of beer
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