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/ June 16, 2026
Standing at the top of Chalk Farm Road, its brickwork blackened by nearly two centuries of London weather, the Roundhouse still looks like exactly what it was built to be in 1846: a machine for turning trains around. It has spent the decades since Pink…
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/ June 16, 2026
O2 Academy Brixton stands at 211 Stockwell Road in the Lambeth district of South London, occupying a grand Art Deco building originally opened on 19 August 1929 as the Astoria Variety Cinema. After stints as a discotheque and a short-lived rock club called Fair Deal…
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/ June 16, 2026
The Eventim Apollo — still known to generations of music fans simply as the Hammersmith Apollo, and before that the Hammersmith Odeon — is one of London’s most iconic live music venues. Located in Hammersmith, West London, it holds up to 5,300 people for part-standing…
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/ June 16, 2026
The Wiltern isn’t just Wilshire Boulevard’s blue-green Art Deco landmark — it’s one of Los Angeles’s most-booked midsize concert venues, and one of the first questions fans ask before a show is simple: how many people does it hold? The answer depends on how the…
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/ June 16, 2026
White Hart Lane was the cherished home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for 118 years, from its opening on 4 September 1899 until its final match on 14 May 2017. Located in Tottenham, North London, the ground grew from a modest venue on a former…
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/ June 16, 2026
Walk down Avenell Road in North London today and the old Art Deco facade still looks like a football stadium — right up until you notice the curtains in the windows. Highbury, Arsenal’s home for 93 years, was never bulldozed. It was converted, piece by…
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/ June 16, 2026
Old Wembley Stadium — officially the Empire Stadium — opened on 28 April 1923 with room for around 125,000 spectators, making it one of the largest sports venues on Earth at the time. Over its 77-year life that figure was cut back repeatedly, first toward…
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/ June 16, 2026
For 66 years, the Colisée de Québec was the loudest room in Quebec hockey — a barrel-vaulted arena on Boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel that shook with noise every time the Nordiques took the ice. It opened in 1949, said goodbye to the NHL in 1995, and closed…
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/ June 16, 2026
Cincinnati Gardens was an indoor arena located at 2250 Seymour Avenue in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Built for approximately $3 million, it opened on February 22, 1949, and its original seating capacity of more than 11,000 ranked it the seventh-largest indoor arena…
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/ June 16, 2026
War Memorial Stadium, nestled inside Little Rock’s scenic War Memorial Park, opened on September 18, 1948, as a $1.2 million tribute to Arkansans who gave their lives in the two World Wars. Designed by architect Bruce R. Anderson in an Art Deco style and formally…
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/ June 16, 2026
The Grand Olympic Auditorium at 1801 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles was one of America’s most storied arenas — a concrete bowl at the corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue where Olympic athletes, boxing world champions, wrestling showmen, roller derby queens, punk…
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/ June 16, 2026
For nearly seventy years, Gator Bowl Stadium sat on the north bank of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, growing from a 7,600-seat high school football ground into an 80,126-seat Southern colossus that hosted the Florida-Georgia rivalry, the Gator Bowl, professional football and soccer…
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/ June 16, 2026
The Summit opened on November 1, 1975, at 3700 Southwest Freeway in Houston, Texas, serving as the home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets for nearly three decades. Built for roughly $18–27 million, the glass-enclosed arena represented a new generation of American sports venues — spacious…
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/ June 16, 2026
Seals Stadium stood at the corner of Bryant and 16th Streets in San Francisco’s Mission District from 1931 to 1959, serving as the heart of West Coast professional baseball for nearly three decades. Built at a cost of $1.25 million in concrete and steel, the…
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/ June 16, 2026
Madison Square Garden III stood on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Manhattan, opening on December 15, 1925. Designed by theater architect Thomas W. Lamb and financed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard—who rallied wealthy backers known as his ‘600 millionaires’—the arena cost $4.75…
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/ June 16, 2026
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was a Spanish-style baseball stadium that stood at 425 E. 42nd Place in South Central Los Angeles from 1925 until its demolition in March 1969. Built by chewing-gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr. for $1.5 million, it…
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/ June 16, 2026
For 65 years, a barrel-roofed hall on Oakland Avenue was the loudest room in St. Louis sports. The St. Louis Arena opened on September 23, 1929, immediately claiming its place as the second-largest indoor entertainment center in the country, trailing only Madison Square Garden in…
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/ June 16, 2026
The Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland was the beating heart of professional sports in the Washington, D.C. region for nearly three decades, and its story is as much about architecture and business as it is about basketball and hockey. Built by sports entrepreneur Abe Pollin…
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/ June 16, 2026
Reunion Arena was the beating heart of Dallas sports and entertainment for nearly three decades. Located at 777 Sports Street in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas, this $27 million indoor arena opened on April 28, 1980, and quickly became one of the most…
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/ June 16, 2026
Market Square Arena was a multipurpose indoor arena located at 300 East Market Street in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Opened on September 15, 1974, at a construction cost of roughly $23 million, it seated 16,530 fans for basketball (up to 18,178 with festival seating) and ranked…
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