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In late 1904, the Temple Baptist Church leased the pavilion, changing its name to Temple Auditorium, at a time when churches were generally opposed to professional boxing. As a result, Tom McCarey was forced to find another venue for his boxing shows, a tough proposition because the site could not be
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As the largest building of its type in Los Angeles at the time, Hazard's Pavilion was a venue for conventions, political meetings, lectures, fairs, religious meetings, concerts, operas, balls, and sports events. It opened in April, 1887 with a modest civic flower festival, but a month later it hosted
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was built in 1963. The Philharmonic Auditorium was demolished in 1985. Although the site has been a parking lot for decades, San Francisco real estate investment firm MacFarlane Partners announced in 2014 that the
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located near residential areas, but it also had to be located near trolley lines. It would be late 1905 when McCarey staged his first card at a new pavilion located on North Main Street in the
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at a cost of $ 25,000, a large amount for the time, and seated up to 4,000 people (some sources say that seating could be up to 8,000; the building was divided into two galleries, and perhaps
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fought in an exhibition bout with his sparring partner, Jim Daly at Hazard's Pavilion. Later in the same year, Corbett would go on to win the World Heavyweight Title from the then-champion,
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balcony in the world. It had the largest stage west of New York when it was completed, and it seated 2,600 people. A nine-story office block and retail shops were part of the complex.
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the National Opera Company with 300 singers, ballet dancers, and musicians. The Pavilion hosted regular religious meetings, including a series in 1888 where famed evangelist
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were among the famous people who spoke to crowds gathered at Hazard's Pavilion. The great Italian operatic singer
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development was going ahead with 650 units in a high-rise apartment building that would face historic
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began its second season in 1920, it chose Clune's Auditorium as its home, which became known as the
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In 1906, Hazard's Pavilion was demolished to make way for a new Temple Auditorium. The architect,
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had one exhibition bout while Jim Jeffries had two, one of them as the World Heavyweight Champion.
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had its world premiere at Clune's Auditorium on its way to becoming a massive success.
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there in 1898. The man who would go on to be the first African-American
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accommodated 4,000). The building was constructed of wood with a
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From 1901 to 1904, the first great Los Angeles boxing promoter,
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presented silent films in the auditorium, then called
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Clune's Auditorium

Los Angeles, California
Henry T. Hazard
Kysor, Morgan & Walls
clapboard
Dwight L. Moody
Harry A. Ironside
Booker T. Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Carrie Nation
Enrico Caruso

Uncle Tom McCarey
Jim Jeffries
Joe Goddard
World Heavyweight Champion
Jack Johnson
Joe Bernstein
Frank Childs
Kid McCoy
Hank Griffin
Dixie Kid
Denver Ed Martin
Sam McVey
Frankie Neil
Solly Smith
Joe Walcott
James J. Corbett
John L. Sullivan

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