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Look closely at the cars on the Ferris Wheel. They're huge--like small train cars almost--exactly what I imagined the cars on the original Ferris Wheel looked like at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. This Ferris Wheel appears to have been located in Paris, according to the writing on the bottom of the photo. I can't be absolutely positive, obviously (if anyone just so happens to be sure of the location, please let me know). According to my estimation (some of the cars are obscured by the building at the bottom), it even has 36 cars, like the original Ferris Wheel.
I read in The Devil In The White City (a fantastic book by Erik Larson) that each of the cars on the original Ferris Wheel weighed 13 tons, bringing the total to about 1 million tons.
I actually have found no reference to families relocated in the cars (capable of lifting 30 persons) during WW1.
Exploitation has been a financial disaster, and it has been removed in 1937.
Some 50' then 70's buildings have been built there.
You can imagine where the wheel was using those pairs of photos:
http://parisavant.com/index.php?showimage=1337
and there
http://parisavant.com/index.php?showimage=2100
The Grande Roue de Paris was a 100 metre Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris, France. It must have been bigger (328 ft) than the original Chicago Wheel (264 ft). The cars were indeed huge, they were used as homes for French families in the region devastated during WW I
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