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.
Where it stood
Alt Nürnberg (Old Nuremberg) stood at about 37.80089 N, 122.43256 W on today's map. The whole fairground over the city →
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