Trade Show History – Portable Exhibits
Ted Zeigler patented the world’s first portable pop-up display system in 1975. “The only people who got it were the French,” Zeigler says. It did solve a big problem. Small exhibits were either expensive and custom-made, or no-frills pipe and drape. Fascinated by the geodesic domes patented by inventor/poet R. Buckminster Fuller, Zeigler tinkered with…