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

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.