One year anniversary celebration of start of construction on Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 1959

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Photograph. "First birthday -- Holding a little party in honor of Sports Arena first anniversary, Welton Becket (left), Bill Nicholas, George E. Kinsey and W.L. Squires light up a candle on a Sports Arena shaped cake for the big occasion. -- Sports Arena now 76 per cent done -- The new Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena has just passed its first anniversay and is headed for completion well in advance of the original October 1959 date. -- Planners and builders of the Arena made a formal first birthday inspection tour and revealed th[...] contractors and builders of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. -- The Memorial Sports Arena was officially listed as 76 per cent completed just one year from the start [...]tion in [...]" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 13 April 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title One year anniversary celebration of start of construction on Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 1959

Subject Becket, Welton (subject), Kinsey, George E. (subject), Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Sports Arena (file heading), Nicholas, Bill (subject), Squires, W.L. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3949 South Figueroa Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sports Arena (manmade features), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate -118.28187,34.01279 (point), -118.28392,34.01176 (point), -118.284,34.01362 (point), -118.28622,34.01231 (point)

Temporal Subject 1959-04-13

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1959-04-13

Creator Vanguard Photography (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3052

Identifier 3-1275-02806-0540 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-298 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90304 (legacy record id), examiner-m3052 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-298 (original filename), Subjects 319 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90304

Unique identifier UC11733247

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-298.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 2.4 in × 2.9 in at 300dpi
6.1 cm × 7.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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