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Posted on 09/14/2016 2:59:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Aerial footage Wednesday showed what was once the site of an NBA title series, two NCAA Basketball championships, the 1963 NBA All-Star Game, and the 1960 Democratic Convention now with over half of its roof demolished and much of the site covered in debris.
While spending recent years largely in disrepair, the Sports Arena has a storied past: Vice President Richard M. Nixon delivered the dedication address for the Sports Arena on Memorial Day in 1958, and John F. Kennedy, then a 43-year-old senator from Massachusetts, was nominated for the Democratic presidential ticket in 1960.
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Been there many times, including a Clippers playoff game the night before the Rodney King riots broke out.
The NHL Los Angeles Kings called that place home, in addition to the Long Beach Arena, before the Forum was completed and opened in January 1968. I believe that the WHA Los Angeles Sharks played in the Los Angeles Sports Arena during their two seasons (1972-73 to 1973-74).
Once SC’s basketball team finally had a new arena, the Sports Arena was doomed. It’s so old even its successor, the Forum, is defunct.
If I were you I would be thanking God everyday. If you had been stuck in traffic there when those cops got the “not guilty verdict” you could have been Reginald Denny II.
I made a joke about the possibly of unrest on the way up there. The next day the verdict came out and the rest is history.
Well, considering L.A. is mostly third world now, a soccer stadium makes perfect sense.
Me dad took me too a few Laker games and I saw my first hockey game there whatever the Los Angeles Hockey team was called back then. As a native of Los Angeles Hockey was not something I understood..LOL
Hockey = soccer on ice skates
Hockey- a legal street fight of stick ball on skates?LOL
Hockey = professional wrestling on ice skates
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I remember when they brought down the Kingdome up here is Seattle. They went to all the trouble of spending the price to implode it, advertise when, got all these people to come see it, even in the harbor. But they apparently didn’t think about the dust cloud that ultimately covered the city and caused all kinds of problems cleaning it up.
Heavy clouds of yellow, white and gray dust billowed out seconds after the first explosions at 8:30 a.m., obscuring the final view of the carefully orchestrated implosion.
Dust choked downtown for nearly 20 minutes, blocking out the sun and leaving a layer of film on cars, streets and storefronts. The dust cloud reached nearly as high as the top of the Bank of America Tower, 76 stories almost a thousand feet, and drifted northwest about 8 miles an hour. It took weeks to clean it up. I was down in Tacoma and giggled for days
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Sad. So many memories of the Fabulous Forum as Chick Hearn called it. Saw Rush concert there. Awesome concert venue for a sports arena.
Because she was president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), my mother was able to get a gallery pass the Democrat National Convention when they nominated JFK for president.
Nice!
They renovated the Forum and turned it into a very nice concert venue. Saw the Eagles there about two years ago. It is a very nice place to see a concert now.
I’m well aware of that—thanks. My point is that the Forum is defunct now, too, for its original main purpose as an indoor sports venue since both the Lakers and Kings left for Staples Center, along with the Clippers. And even ol’ Glenn Frey is defunct now, no longer sitting baseline with Dyan Cannon and that rich doctor.
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