More trivia for y’all: This is the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton. It has a unique shape. What’s it designed to look like and why?murgurdurth t1_je9gfey wrote
It's shaped like a football - something to do with the Washington Football Team
hoosyourdaddyo OP t1_je9gskv wrote
You, sir are correct! George Preston Marshall was friends with Conrad Hilton.
When Hilton built his new hotel in Washington, he had the ballroom, which was going to be the largest in the city, made in the shape of a football, so Marshall would move his annual Grid Iron dinner from the Shorham.
murgurdurth t1_je9gy9k wrote
Whoa! Did it work?
hoosyourdaddyo OP t1_je9h00j wrote
Yep.
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