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Legion Stadium (other)
Legion Stadium may refer to several venues in the United States: * American Legion Memorial Stadium American Legion Memorial Stadium is a 10,500-seat stadium located on 7th Street in the Elizabeth community of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is located on a complex with the Grady Cole Center. Both are located next to Central Piedmont Community C ..., in Charlotte, North Carolina * American Legion Stadium, in Odessa, Texas * Hollywood Legion Stadium (1921–1959), a defunct California boxing venue * El Monte Legion Stadium, a demolished multi-purpose indoor arena in El Monte, California * Legion Stadium (North Carolina), in Wilmington {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Legion Memorial Stadium
American Legion Memorial Stadium is a 10,500-seat stadium located on 7th Street in the Elizabeth community of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is located on a complex with the Grady Cole Center. Both are located next to Central Piedmont Community College. Independence Park Stadium, a tiny public baseball stadium, is also close by. Memorial Stadium is mainly used for high school sporting events and also serves as a public venue. Before the construction of nearby Bank of America Stadium in 1996, Memorial Stadium was Charlotte's largest outdoor stadium, and is still the largest municipal venue in the city. History Ground was broken on the stadium in 1934 and the gates were officially opened two years later in 1936. Named in honor of local soldiers who fell in World War I, the stadium was a project of the Works Progress Administration. Throughout the years the stadium hosted events of every kind, ranging from Presidential addresses to classic professional wrestling encounters featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Legion Stadium
American Legion Stadium is a baseball venue located in Odessa, Texas, and the home of the Odessa College Wranglers baseball team in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference The Western Junior College Athletic Conference (WJCAC) is a junior college athletic conference for many technical and community colleges within the Southwest states of Texas and New Mexico, sponsored by the National Junior College Athletic Associ .... The facility holds a capacity of 1,000. References Baseball venues in Texas {{Texas-baseball-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Legion Stadium
The Hollywood Legion Stadium was a major boxing venue in Los Angeles, California, United States that operated from August 12, 1921, until 1960. Hollywood Legion Stadium was located at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and El Centro Avenue in the Hollywood neighborhood. History Hollywood Post 43 of the American Legion bought the land with the profits from an all-star staging of the play ''Arizona'' at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Originally an open-air venue with a little clubhouse where the boxers changed, the venue was roofed in early 1922. Manager Si Masters came up with the idea creating ringside boxes for celebrities, which in turn attracted press attention, and before long "Crowds began to flock to Hollywood. The $35,000 deficit disappeared. Walls went up on the stadium, camp chairs were replaced by regular seats. The dirt floor disappeared under cement. It became harder and harder to get seats at the fights—the Legion Stadium was by way of becoming a howling success... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Monte Legion Stadium
The El Monte Legion Stadium—also known as Legion Stadium, El Monte Union High School Auditorium, El Monte Auditorium, El Monte Gymnasium, Old El Monte Gym, and The Pink Elephant—was a 3,500-seat multi-purpose indoor venue in El Monte, California. It had originally been a combined auditorium and gymnasium located on the campus of El Monte Union High School. From the beginning, the venue served the school as well as the public in El Monte. Concerns about its soundness after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake nearly resulted in its closure, but tests that determined the building was stronger than previously believed, as well as the prohibitive costs of erecting a new auditorium, led to its preservation. El Monte Union High School, however, moved to a new campus. In 1945, the American Legion, Post 261 bought the venue, renaming it El Monte Legion Stadium. In addition to using it for their meetings, they also leased it out for sporting events and concerts. Between 1949 and 1962, Legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
