Philadelphia Spectrum
| Philadelphia Spectrum | |
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| America's Showplace Broad Street |
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| The Wachovia Spectrum in April 2009 | |
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Spectrum (1967–1994) |
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| place | 3601 South Broad Street Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19148
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 54 '15 " N , 75 ° 10' 16.8" W |
| owner | Comcast Spectacor, LP |
| operator | Global spectrum |
| start of building | June 1, 1966 |
| opening | September 30, 1967 |
| demolition | November 23, 2010 to May 2011 |
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Parquet ice surface |
| costs | 7 million US dollars |
| capacity | 18,136 seats (basketball) 17,380 seats (ice hockey) 18,369 seats (concerts) |
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The Philadelphia Spectrum (formerly CoreStates Spectrum , First Union Spectrum and most recently Wachovia Spectrum ) was a multi-purpose hall in the US city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania .
history
The Spectrum was as part of the 1967 South Philadelphia Sports Complex completed at a cost of 7 million dollars . In the course of its existence, both the naming rights to the hall and the users of the sports facility, which originally served as the home ground for the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League and the Philadelphia 76ers from the National Basketball Association , changed. The 76ers moved from the Convention Hall , which was closed in 1996 and demolished in 2005, to the Spectrum, which was the second major sports facility on the south end of Broad Street in what was then East League Island Park . Other tenants were the World Team Tennis Team Philadelphia Freedoms in 1974 , the lacrosse team Philadelphia Wings in the 1974/75 season and from 1987 to 1996, the Philadelphia Fever football team from 1978 to 1981 and the Philadelphia Bulldogs from the Roller Hockey International League from 1994 to 1996. In 1976 and 1992 the NHL All-Star Game was played in the Spectrum.
In 1996, both the Flyers and 76ers moved to the neighboring, more modern and larger Wells Fargo Center . The Philadelphia Phantoms , the Flyers American Hockey League farm team , and the Philadelphia KiXX from the Major Indoor Soccer League moved into the Spectrum as new main tenants from 1996 until the arena was closed . Between 2004 and 2008, the Philadelphia Soul Arena Football Team played individual games at the stadium when the Wells Fargo Center was unavailable.
On October 30, 2009, the arena was closed after a series of four concerts by the Pearl Jam group . Plans called for the demolition of the Spectrum due to the construction of a new hotel complex, which was completed from November 2010 to May 2011.
In addition to sporting events, college basketball games , professional wrestling and numerous concerts were also held. Concerts were also held in a smaller, separate part of the arena called the Spectrum Theater . In the 1976 film Rocky , the great world championship boxing match is held in the Spectrum.
Web links
- rememberthespectrum.com: Information page about the sports facility (English)
- setlist.fm: Concert list of the Philadelphia Spectrum , the CoreStates Spectrum , the First Union Spectrum and the Wachovia Spectrum (English)