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Photograph was edited for publication purposes The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, located at 3939 S. Figueroa Street, was officially opened on July 4, 1959 by then Vice President Richard M. Nixon and was designed by Welton Becket; general contractor was L.E. Dixon Company. The last event at the arena was a Bruce Springsteen concert. The arena was closed on March 19, 2016 and demolished to make room for a new soccer stadium. Photograph caption dated April 9, 1965 reads "E. Calvin Clark, president, Clark Building Corporation, at left, and Carl F. Kraatz, director of Los Angeles Home Show, June 10-20, at Los Angeles Sports Arena, use a model of proposed moon 'crawler' in ground-breaking ceremonies for Clark's Villa D'Este Gold Medallion home being built for the show."
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