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Share of the American Academy of Music, issued October 15, 1856 The Academy of Music in 1870. The Academy of Music held an inaugural ball on January 26, 1857. Following it, The New York Times described the theater as "magnificently gorgeous, brilliantly lighted, solidly constructed, finely located, beautifully ornamented" but went on to lament "all that lacks is a few singers to render it 'the ...
The PPL Center is an 8,500-seat capacity indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania.It opened on September 10, 2014. It is the home arena for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the primary development hockey team for the Philadelphia Flyers.
In 1986, the Philadelphia Orchestra approved a plan to construct a new concert hall to replace the aging Academy of Music. It hoped to complete the new facility in time for its 1991 season. [ 2 ] The desire to move the orchestra from its facilities in the Academy of Music emerged as early as 1908, however plans stalled due to the lack of ...
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Eastern Conference. [1] The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [2]
The Philadelphia 76ers warming up prior to a game vs the New Jersey Nets, now the Brooklyn Nets, on the arena's old floor design in October 2007 Philadelphia Flyers fans leaving Wachovia Center after a playoff game in 2010 Rink-side view of Wells Fargo Center's hockey rink during a game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Columbus Blue ...
Trocadero newspaper advertisement in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1909. The theater, designed by architect Edwin Forrest Durang, then modified several times, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and to the National Register of Historic Places five years later.
The Civic Center also hosted the World Hockey Association's Philadelphia Blazers and the minor-league Philadelphia Firebirds hockey teams. The University of Pennsylvania used the building for commencements (due to it being larger than Penn's own basketball arena, the nearby Palestra ), as did Drexel University , Temple University , St. Joseph's ...
John Clark LeClair (born July 5, 1969) is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins from 1991 to 2006.