Title supplied by cataloger. The complex was begun in 1962. On July 9, 1992, Planet Ocean, one of Wyland's Whaling Walls murals, was dedicated. It extends along the exterior wall of the drum-shaped Arena. The mural covers 116,000 square feet and depicts migratory gray whales and other aquatic life that are found in the waters off Long Beach. In celebration of Earth Day in 2009, Wyland touched up the existing Whaling Wall and added a large mural of the earth on the roof of the arena. A panoramic view of Long Beach from the Long Beach Arena, left, part of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center at 300 East Ocean Boulevard, to hotels and apartment buildings, right. The Long Beach Arena was the first building completed for the Long Beach Convention complex. The circular building is punctured at regular intervals by rectangular, glass rooms.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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