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Description
Photograph. "Cavernous interior of the 22,400-seat arena shows work near completion -- More than 400 reservation, for athletic events, shows, and conventions, are already on file." "3 months ahead of schedule -- Los Angles -- $5,950,000 Memorial Sports Arena is more than 80 per cent completed. -- Workmen, still laboring at speeds which have placed the construction almost three months ahead of schedule, have started putting on the finishing touches. -- That was the word yesterday from officials of the L.E. Dixon Company of San Gabriel, builders of the huge reinforced concrete structure in Exposition Park. -- Amont the 'finishing touches' is the completion of the arena's inward slanting facade which rings the top of the structure. -- Almost 5,000,000 [...] one-inch [...]" -- Examiner clippings attached to verso, dated 30 March 1959. Whittington photo no. 93-93-1. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Sports Arena Sports Arena Construction
Time Period
circa 1959-03-30
Place
-118.284,34.01362 -118.28187,34.01279 -118.28392,34.01176 -118.28622,34.01231 3948 South Figueroa Street California Los Angeles Sports Arena Los Angeles USA
Source
2567; unidentified no: 93-93-1 [Identifying Number] 3-1275-02806-0821 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-272 [Original Filename] Subjects 319 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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