Title supplied by cataloger. Completed in 1932 from plans drawn by J. Harold McDowell, the auditorium replaced Long Beach's first Municipal Auditorium. It extended 500 feet out into the Pacific Ocean at the foot of Long Beach Boulevard and was demolished in 1975 to make way for the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. Two sailors look at the detail of the WAP mosaic of a horseshoe player's hand and feet which fronts the facade of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium.; The mosaic was assembled in 1937 by artists working under the direction of Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Albert Henry King from an original design by Henry Allen Nord. They cut and pieced it together in sections. Meant to be seen from miles away because of its Olympian proportions and design, the mosaic was originally placed at the gateway to historic Route 6 (Long Beach Boulevard).
Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.) Theaters--California--Long Beach Auditoriums--California--Long Beach Mosaics--California--Long Beach Lost architecture--California--Long Beach Works Progress Administration Collection photographs Macdonald-Wright, Stanton,1890-1973 King, Albert Henry,1900-1982 Long Beach (Calif.) Nord, Henry Allen
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