Crystal Palace named....

[Mis4Mouse]

Does anyone know if the Crystal Palace got it's name from the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in London in the mid 19th century?

I understand the exhibition hall was built of glass and cast iron....and there was a domed section.

Usually before a trip I make a trivia list for the kids.... I email them a question a day for the month before, and they email me back for disney dollars. I try to make it educational and fun.

Thought this would make a good trivia question for the 15 year old. But I need to verify the accuracy first.

I know it seems obscure, but if anyone knows the answer to this, I figured they'd be here at the DIS!



Thanks
Susan

 

[cocodog]

I understood it was named after (and fashioned after) the landmark restaurant in San Fransisco ??

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

It's modelled after the conservatory of flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and a similar structure that no longer stands in New York.

From Birnbaum.

 

[Mis4Mouse]

I understood it was named after (and fashioned after) the landmark restaurant in San Fransisco ??

Yes, there was a Crystal Palace Market Place in San Francisco in the 1920's:

San Francisco's Crystal Palace, opened in 1923 in a large steel-frame building on the site of a former baseball diamond and circus ground with 68,000 square feet of selling area and parking for 4,350 cars (one hour free). Offering food, drugs, tobacco, liquor (after 1934), jewelry, a barber shop, a beauty parlor, and a cleaning establishment, the store by 1937 had set sales records of 51,000 pounds of sugar in one hour, five carloads of eggs in a month; in a single year it sold 200 tons of lemons, 250 tons of oranges, and 300 tons of apples.

So it's possible it was named after the market....seeing as it's an nostalgic American Landmark.....

Does anyone else have any info?

Thanks for the lead cocodog!

Susan

 

[Mis4Mouse]

It's modelled after the conservatory of flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and a similar structure that no longer stands in New York.

From Birnbaum.

Thanks You!

Susan