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10 unusual facts about Crystal City


A Sense of Where You Are

McPhee describes all aspects of Bradley's game, from his roots playing basketball in Crystal City, Missouri and his Olympic experience to Bradley's particular passing and shooting techniques, various physical gifts (including an extraordinary range of vision), and intense discipline and commitment.

Alma, Arkansas

Crystal City in Zavala County in south Texas also calls itself the "Spinach Capital of the World" and it too has a Popeye statute in the downtown.

Crystal City

Crystal Island, a proposed supertall building project in Moscow, Russia

Crystal City, an alternate name for the Crystal Heights development proposed for Washington DC by Frank Lloyd Wright

Crystal City, Manitoba

Thomas Greenway, the village's founder, later became its provincial representative in the Manitoba Legislature and later Premier of Manitoba.

Crystal City, Texas

In 2005, the company was retained by officials in Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide drinking water to Hurricane Katrina victims and to establish water remediation needed in the aftermath of the storm along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

By March 26, 1937, the growers had erected a statue of the cartoon character Popeye in the town because his reliance on spinach for strength led to greater popularity for the vegetable, which had become a staple cash crop of the local economy.

Earle Nelson

However, Nelson made the mistake of trying to catch the same train that was transporting members of the Winnipeg police, and was recaptured and arrested again the next morning by an officer from the Crystal City, Manitoba police department.

Pliny Fisk III

When the Lo Vaca Gathering Co shut off the natural gas supply to the small town of Crystal City, Texas in the fall of 1977, Fisk developed the idea of using Army surplus wood stoves and abundant mesquite for heating.

Raza Unida Party

The most widely known and accepted story is that the La Raza Unida Party was established on January 17, 1970 at a meeting of 300 Mexican-Americans in Crystal City, Texas by José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had also helped in the foundation of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in 1967.


The Spooky Movie Film Festival

The home base for the festival is Cinema Arts Theatres in Fairfax, Virginia, with additional screenings in Crystal City, Virginia, Wheaton, Maryland, Arlington, Virginia, Hagerstown, Maryland and mid-town D.C.