What's left of the ballroom is now behind a blue fence advertising the expo.
Here's the official expo mascot, Haibao, clad in a space suit and breathing apparatus.
It's that attitude that promises to make the Shanghai expo such an extravaganza.
During the mid-1950's, Florida decided to jump on the "-rama" bandwagon by constructing a permanent international expo called the "Inter-American Center," or Interama.
It is very fitting that this expo will be here in Shanghai, one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
The message implied in the logo of Shanghai world expo is that the Chinese people wish to host an exposition of global and multicultural convergence. That strikes a responsive chord in the world.
