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The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (also known as the Los Angeles Coliseum or L.A. Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Conceived as a hallmark of civic pride, the Coliseum was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I.
The historic Mission Revival style Exposition Club House, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.. A total of 31,062 residents counted in its 1.85 square miles, which is including the park land as well as Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum according to the 2000 U.S. census—an average of 16,819 people per square mile among the highest population densities for both the city and the county.
Exposition Park is a 160-acre urban park (65 ha) in the south region of Los Angeles, California, [1] in the Exposition Park neighborhood. Bounded by Exposition Boulevard to the north, South Figueroa Street to the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the south and Vermont Avenue to the west, it is directly south of the main campus of the ...
Highlights of some of the major events held during 100 years of the Los Angeles Coliseum, from sporting to political, cultural and specialty events.
Exposition Park 22,000 June 1, 2003 [6] Dignity Health Sports Park: Carson: 30,510 [7] April 19, 1966 Angel Stadium: Anaheim 45,050 September 17, 1959: Dodger Stadium: Echo Park 57,000 1993 Glen Helen Amphitheater: San Bernardino 65,000 September 8, 2020: SoFi Stadium: Inglewood 70,240 May 1, 1923: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Exposition Park ...
Photos of the transformation of the historical Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from football stadium to a quarter-mile short track NASCAR racetrack.
Construction crews transform the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from a football stadium to host the Bush Light a quarter-mile short track NASCAR exhibition race. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
Forthmann House, 2014. National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks.The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games; [2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 ...