These were iconic names in the iconic Yosemite National Park. Then the National Park Service was forced to change those monikers in a bizarre trademark dispute. This week, the old names returned. Here’s a primer on the dispute and the final settlement:
So does the Wawona Hotel.So there was deep anger a few years ago when the National Park Service was forced to change those monikers in a bizarre trademark dispute.
But this week, to the joy of many, the old names returned as part of a multimillion-dollar settlement in the trademark case. “People were crying,” said National Park spokesman Scott Gediman, who was there when the cover was removed from the entrance to Curry Village on Monday morning. “Places like the Ahwahnee Hotel and Curry Village, they both bring out such deep emotions in people and people have such connections to them.
The famed Ahwahnee Hotel has played host to such well-known figures as Queen Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Charlie Chaplin. It was one of the highest-profile properties renamed in 2016, pending the outcome of the lawsuit, but there were others.
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