A 1914 fact book announced one of 'the quaintest of the concessions': a reproduction of the old market place of Nuremberg to cost $225,000. Its banquet halls, folk-dance halls, restaurant, cafe and concert garden would be 'reproduced as they existed five centuries ago', with staff in fifteenth-century costume. The Official Guide listed it simply as 'a reproduction of the world-famous city of Nurnberg.'
Todd calls Alt Nürnberg 'a German place of a good type.' Whatever the war did to German participation elsewhere, it did not hurt this restaurant. The 'Old Nuremburg Restaurant' took in $353,757.44, the fifth-largest gross of the 455 concessions at the fair.
At a glance
- Announced (1914) at a cost of $225,000.
- Gross receipts $353,757.44, fifth among all concessions.
- Todd lists it with the Zone's restaurants: the White Lunch, Young's, the Vienna Cafe, the Marine Cafe and the Why Coffee House.
Afterward
Demolished with the Zone in 1916.
Sources
- The Exposition Fact Book (1914), p. 19 (Nuremberg market place, $225,000)
- Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), p. 69
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (1921), ch. LXIV, p. 351
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (1921), ch. XXIV, p. 162 (receipts)
- Map of the Zone concessions, spring 1915 (reproduced in 'Let Me Get There', USC Scalar), Spring 1915 map of the Zone concessions