Into the future...
If you've been to DCA this week you've gotten to experience the newly opened Paradise Park...
Nice, huh?
I've heard several people refer to it as lovely 20's theming. Now, as I'm an architectural lover and I know the Imagineers perchance for detail, I must correct.
Let me illuminate for you.
Those that tell you the pier looks the way it would have looked when the company's founder first arrived are wrong. The new front entrance will be late 20's/early 30's. A style known as Spanish Revival. The Hollywoodland section, will be themed more "Golden Age" to the mid 30's/late 30's that is known for its Art Deco Stylings (of note, the Disney Cruise Line's ships are designed in different styles, one Art Deco, the other Art Nouveau).
So the pier, which WDI describes as a "Turn of the Century" park would be considered Victorian/Edwardian, but not twenties. This would fall in line with the Arts and Crafts period themed Grand Californian which was popular around the same time (modeled after the Gamble House). Technical, eh? So, if you want to describe the feeling, music and atmosphere to someone when walking though the area, Mictorian turn of the century is the broadest, most accurate words to use. Not, the 1920's.
Remember, timing is everything...
