Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
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| The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena entrance (November 2005) | |
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| place | 3939 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles , California 90037
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 0 '45.4 " N , 118 ° 17' 4.4" W |
| owner | City of Los Angeles |
| operator | Los Angeles Coliseum Commission |
| start of building | April 7, 1958 |
| opening | 4th July 1959 |
| demolition | September 2016 |
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| costs | 8.5 million US dollars (1959) |
| architect | Welton Becket and Associates |
| capacity | 16,161 places (basketball) 14,546 places (ice hockey) 16,740 places (boxing) 16,740 places (wrestling) |
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The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena was a multi-purpose arena in Exposition Park in the US city of Los Angeles in the state of California . Sports events, concerts and other events took place there. The hall, which opened in 1959, was, among other things, the venue for the boxing competitions of the 1984 Summer Olympics . It was next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . The visitor capacity was 14,000 to 17,000 depending on the event. Numerous concerts by famous musicians and groups took place in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
History and special events
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena took place on April 7, 1958. The construction cost a total of 8.5 million US dollars . On July 4, 1959, US Vice President Richard Nixon opened the hall, in which the first sporting competition was held four days later with the bantamweight title fight between José Becerra and Alphonse Halimi . In 1960, the Democratic National Convention , at which John F. Kennedy was sent into the running for the presidency, took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The Los Angeles Lakers played indoor NBA games between 1960 and 1967, and the Los Angeles Clippers did the same from 1984 to 1990 . In 1967 the Los Angeles Kings played their first NHL season at the Memorial Sports Arena. During the 1984 Summer Olympics, boxing matches were held in the hall.
After the LA Clippers left the hall in 1999 and the University of Southern California's basketball team , the USC Trojans , who played their games there from 1959 to 2006, no longer played there, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena lost its previous rank and many high-class events take place in the Staples Center , for example . Various teams from different sports played their home games in the hall. Following the departure of the Los Angeles Temptation, the UCLA Bruins basketball team returns to the arena for the 2011/12 season.
The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena was demolished in 2016, making room for the Banc of California Stadium , the football stadium of the new MLS - Franchise Los Angeles FC . The last events in the arena were Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on March 15, 17 and 19, 2016, three concerts. The new facility for the LAFC opened in mid-April 2018.
literature
- Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee: Official Report of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad. Los Angeles, 1984 . 2 volumes. Edited by Richard B. Perelman, Los Angeles 1985, ISBN 0-9614512-0-3 (Volume 1: Organization and Planning . Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results ). Online at la84foundation.org as a PDF in six parts: Volume 1, Part 1 , 26.1 MB; Volume 1, Part 2 , 12.3 MB; Volume 1, Part 3 , 21.0 MB; Volume 2, Part 1 , 24.1 MB; Volume 2, Part 2 , 11.1 MB; Volume 2, Part 3 , 11.4 MB; last accessed on September 30, 2009.
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Satellite image
The interior of the arena in January 2011
Web links
- lacoliseum.com: history of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena on the official website (English)
- lasports.org: The arena on the site of the Los Angeles Sports Council (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b setlist.fm: concert list of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
- ↑ articles.latimes.com: UCLA basketball to make Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena its temporary home article from April 7, 2011 (English)
- ↑ lafc.com: Stadium on the Los Angeles FC website (English)
- ↑ laweekly.com: Bruce Springsteen Bids Farewell to the LA Sports Arena, the "Dump That Jumps" article from March 21, 2016 (English)
Competition venues for the 1984 Summer Olympics
