Excerpt from 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story

 

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Olympic Auditorium promoter Aileen Eaton with all-time boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. She promoted one of Robinson’s world championship fights vs. Gene Fullmer at the now demolished LA Sports Arena. #18thandgrand #boxing #lahistory #boxinghis
Hey kids. Next week PIL is playing at the Olympic. Get ready for a wild show. I hear @loslobos are opening. Don’t forget the Kipper Kids. #18thandgrand #flashback #timetravel #olympicauditorium #postpunk #publicimageltd #1980
Who was your favorite? “Classy” Freddie Blassie or John “The Golden Greek” Tolos. Photo: Theo Ehret #villains #18thandgrand #prowrestling #wrestling
Glenn Bray, who lent @laplazala remarkable items from his wrestling collection for the 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium exhibition, visited the museum recently along with historian Steve Yohe and photographer Dan Westbrook. Glenn, who was a r
The exhibition at @laplazala (closing May 19th) is part of a larger cultural history project exploring the Olympic Auditorium and what it meant to Los Angeles and the world. If you haven't seen our Emmy nominated documentary, you should. The feature
Folks, if you haven't seen our once-in-a-lifetime Olympic Auditorium exhibition at @laplazala we're nearing the final round. In fact, the second floor, which contains the amazing artifacts in this post, is only open until THIS SUNDAY, April 21. We ha
What an amazing turnout yesterday for our Boxing Expo at @laplazala where fighters like Danny "Little Red" Lopez (pictured) participated and were honored by hundreds of fans of all ages. Thank you to our panelists Rita D'Albert, Lisa Fanche
This Sunday's Boxing Expo at @laplazala is happening RAIN OR SHINE. It's going to be a great day celebrating L.A.'s epic boxing history. Fighters in attendance include Carlos Palomino, Danny Lopez, Alberto Davila, Herman Montes, Art Frias, Greg Puent
In the 60s and 70s, the Olympic and the Forum went toe-to-toe for boxing supremacy in Los Angeles. Fighters like Mando Ramos and Carlos Palomino were Olympic house fighters, while others, like Ruben Olivares, for example, fought for the Forum. World
Important exhibition note: April 14th (the day of our Boxing Expo) will be the last day the second floor of the show will be open. That means if you want to see the wrestling gear of Mando Guerrero, photographs by Merrick Morton and Alison Braun, ra
A few weeks ago @abelardodlp - the head of PR and Marketing at @laplazala retired. Abelardo was the heart and soul of the place and showed great interest in the exhibition from the earliest stages, through its launch and will even be helping us throu
A classy boxer and thoughtful man, Pomona's Alberto Davila was ready to quit boxing after coming up on the losing side in three world title fights against three excellent fighters: Carlos Zarate, Jorge Lujan and Lupe Pintor. But after a year long lay
 
 
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