Avenue of Palms

Avenue of Palms
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Saturday, May 9, 2015

How much did that palm tree weigh, did you say?

As much as:
A. the New York state "Big Cheese"
B. the "Mammoth Typewriter" by Underwood
C. An actual Wooly Mammoth
D. 1915 Model T Ford
E. None of the above
F. All of the above

A. The New York state "Big Cheese" was 5.5 tons, the size of a smaller palm.
The New York State "Big Cheese"
weighed 11,000 lbs or 5.5 tons.


B. The "Mammoth Typewriter" by Underwood weighed about 14 tons, the size of a medium palm.
The "Mammoth Typewriter"
photo from Frank Morton Todd, Story of Exposition
C. An actual wooly mammoth weighed about 5 tons.
drawing from Penn State

D. A model T Ford weighed 1200 lbs, less than a ton.

From the 1918 California Nursery Catalog.
Says palms weighed 8 to 30 tons.


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