Creation staged the making of the world as a spectacle: the parting of the waters, the appearance of Man, and 'the momentous meeting between Adam and Eve.' The Official Guide billed it as 'based on the first chapter of Genesis.' It was one of the earliest Zone shows built, after the Yellowstone, the Old Red Mill and the Scenic Railway.
Todd found some of the scenes very impressive, and the imposing front drew crowds. It started at fifty cents and later came down to twenty-five. Its gross of $121,266.05 placed it thirteenth among all 455 concessions at the fair. Next door, in a theater with a plaster giant over its door, was the ill-fated Dayton Flood.
At a glance
- Gross receipts $121,266.05, thirteenth among all concessions.
- Admission fifty cents at first, later twenty-five.
- Among the first Zone concessions to begin construction.
Afterward
Demolished with the Zone in 1916.
Sources
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (1921), ch. XXVIII, p. 148
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (1921), ch. LXV, p. 357
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (1921), ch. XXIV, p. 162 (receipts)
- Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), p. 69
- Map of the Zone concessions, spring 1915 (reproduced in 'Let Me Get There', USC Scalar), Spring 1915 map of the Zone concessions