Question

The first exterior glass elevator built in the United States was for the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, California. Dubbed the Starlight Express, the elevator carried passengers to the twelfth-floor Starlight Room Restaurant. Was this elevator constructed in 1938, 1956, or 1967?

Answer

1956. The idea of glass elevators did not take off, however, until the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, featured a 21-story glass elevator in its lobby in 1967.