Kiel Auditorium
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| place | 1401 Clark Avenue St. Louis , Missouri 63103
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 37 '40.7 " N , 90 ° 12' 6.4" W |
| owner | City of St. Louis |
| opening | April 14, 1934 |
| demolition | 1992 |
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Concrete parquet |
| costs | 6 million US dollars |
| architect | Louis LaBeaume Eugene S. Klein |
| capacity | 9300 seats |
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The Kiel Auditorium was a multi-purpose hall in the US city of St. Louis , Missouri . The hall was closed in 1991, demolished the following year and previously offered 9,300 seats. It made way for the Kiel Center (today: Enterprise Center ), which was inaugurated in 1994 and has over 22,000 seats.
history
The building, initially named Municipal Auditorium, replaced the St. Louis Coliseum, completed in 1908, as the city's main venue in 1934 . The design of the building with a limestone facade came from the architects Louis LaBeaume and Eugene S. Klein. The construction costs amounted to six million dollars (now 114,353,735 US dollars). In front of the event hall, the Kiel Opera House (today: Stifel Theater ), renovated in 2011, was in the immediate vicinity. Both buildings were named Municipal Auditorium until March 26, 1943 , before they were renamed Kiel Auditorium and Kiel Opera House in honor of Henry Kiel , 32nd Mayor of St. Louis between 1913 and 1925.
The construction was from 1955 to 1968, the home of the St. Louis Hawks ( National Basketball Association , NBA) until after moving to Atlanta in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum to the Atlanta Hawks were. Furthermore, took advantage of the NCAA - college basketball -Mannschaft the Saint Louis University Billikens , intermittently, 1945-1991 the auditorium. For a short time, the St. Louis Streak women's basketball team from the Women's Professional Basketball League (WPBL) was based in the arena from 1979 to 1981. The sports arena hosted the NBA All-Star Game three times in 1958, 1962 and 1965. In addition to the basketball games, the Kiel Auditorium u. a. Venue for concerts , professional boxing and wrestling matches (e.g. three fights for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship ), family shows, musicals , roller derby , meetings and exhibitions . Elvis Presley first performed in the auditorium on January 1, 1956. On August 14, 1968, the politician Eugene McCarthy from the DFL gave a speech to 14,000 visitors during the presidential election campaign .
Various artists and bands such as BB King , Queen , Aretha Franklin , Jimi Hendrix , Ella Fitzgerald , David Bowie , Chris de Burgh , Grateful Dead , KISS , Nina Simone , Bill Haley & His Comets , John Denver , Judy Garland , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Scorpions , Deep Purple , Supertramp , Led Zeppelin , Ray Charles , the Duke Ellington Orchestra , The Monkees , AC / DC , Chuck Berry , The Who , Fats Domino , Uriah Heep , Cat Stevens , the Bee Gees , Metallica , Jethro Tull , The Rolling Stones , The Temptations , Tina Turner , Aerosmith , Procol Harum , Miles Davis , Jerry Lee Lewis , Alice Cooper , Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers , Jefferson Airplane , The Ink Spots , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Johnny Cash , Survivor , Steppenwolf , The Beach Boys , Cheap Trick , the Steve Miller Band , Bo Diddley , Slade , Fleetwood Mac , ZZ Top , Black Sabbath , The Jackson Five , INXS , Saxon , Judas Priest , Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra , Yes , Ozzy Osbourne , Mr. Mister , Grand Funk Railroad , Thi n Lizzy , Iron Butterfly , Queensrÿche , the Electric Light Orchestra , Bon Jovi , Poison , Crosby, Stills and Nash , Blue Öyster Cult , the Climax Blues Band and many others performed in the Kiel Auditorium.
Web links
- ballparks.smugmug.com: Kiel Auditorium (demolished) - St. Louis, Missouri (English)
- basketball.ballparks.com: Kiel Auditorium (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Kiel Municipal Auditorium St. Louis, MO. In: scottymoore.net. James V. Roy, accessed November 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Concert list of the Kiel Auditorium. In: setlist.fm. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .