Title supplied by cataloger. Before this structure was present here, there was the original Pan Pacific Auditorium. Designed by architects Walter C. Wurdeman and Welton David Becket, it was one of America's finest examples of Streamline Moderne architecture with four stylized towers and flagpoles meant to represent upswept aircraft fins above the entrance. From 1935 to 1972, when it was closed after the Los Angeles Convention Center opened, it held numerous sporting events, rallies, circuses, and car shows. Photographer's caption reads, "Built in 1935, the famous Art Deco Pan Pacific Auditorium was the place to go for entertainment like the Ice Capades, the Harlem Globetrotters, car and home shows. By the mid-1970's, it was deemed unsafe. The structure sat vacant until it was sadly destroyed by fire in 1989. On April 22, 2002, there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Pan Pacific Auditorium Recreation Center. The exterior design modeled after the renown Auditorium. Attended by a couple of hundred citizens, Mayor James Hahn, Councilmembers Tom LaBonge, Jack Weiss, and Supervisor Zev Yarovslavsky."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;32 x 22 cm. on sheet 36 x 28 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles Recreation centers--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Bicycle police--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Los Angeles Pan Pacific Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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