2nd Annual Southern California Ski Jump Competition
A ski jump competition took place inside of the Coliseum. Known as the “golden age” of this sport, thanks in part to the excitement of the 1932 Winter Olympics, engineers used snow machines and crushed...
View ArticleNorwegian Ice Queen
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the “Midsummer Ice Skating Carnival” held at the Coliseum. With tickets selling for only 30 cents, this was the first time that an ice skating exhibition was held at...
View ArticleCinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo- or the fifth of May- is a holiday commemorating the date of the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). A relatively...
View ArticleXth Olympiad
Today marks the 85th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the 1932 Summer Olympic Games held at the Coliseum. The total number of attendees at the opening ceremony was 101,022, and featured athletes...
View ArticleColonel Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh, the hero who piloted the first trans-Atlantic flight nonstop from New York to Paris, was greeted by 60,000 admiring fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Colonel Lindbergh flew...
View ArticlePaavo Nurmi: World’s Greatest Distance Runner
Paavo Nurmi, arguably the world’s greatest distance runner, held a track meet at the Coliseum. With over 500 athletes competing, many of them recent Olympians, the “Flying Finn” from Finland was still...
View Article“Bull” Montana vs. Jack Dempsey
In the early 1920s, Luigi Montagna, better known as “Bull” Montana, often wrestled with his friend Jack Dempsey, a world champion fighter, prior to some of Dempsey’s larger fights to help entertain the...
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