Re:The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)
by ionwake on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:13AM
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alas it no longer exists, all that remains is a steep hill and a park. within that park are some plastic dinosaur, where I found out for the first time my gf from arizona didnt believe in evoluion. Not that I had a problem with it, its just my only memory of what must have been an amazing place.
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Re:The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)
by jackbracken on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:44AM
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In fact the dinosaur statues are not plastic. They were constructed from cast concrete in sections and supported internally by brickwork. I used to love visiting crystal palace to see them as a child.
Re:The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)
by nkoren on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:56AM
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The dinosaurs are concrete, and date from 1852. That's 7 years before Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 55 years before the invention of plastic. So they're a kind of amazing window into the pre-history of paleontology. Really great artefacts, well worth seeing.
Anyhow,hope you eventually got a better girlfriend.