Sports Venues in Iowa - Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, Kinnick Stadium, Hilton Coliseum, Modern Woodmen Park, Principal Park (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, Kinnick Stadium, Hilton Coliseum, Modern Woodmen Park, Principal Park, Veterans Memorial Stadium, Iowa State Center, Mystique, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Prairie Meadows, Blum Stadium, Wells Fargo Arena, Drake Stadium, UNI-Dome, McElroy Auditorium, Tyson Events Center, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Five Flags Center, U.S. Cellular Center, Community Field, Buccaneer Arena, Alliant Energy Field, Haskins Field, Waukee Stadium, Mystique Ice Center, Des Moines Coliseum, State Gymnasium, Mid-America Motorplex, McLeod Center, Iowa Field House, Drake Fieldhouse, Regents Center, Boone Speedway, Iowa State Armory, Duane Banks Field, Mid-America Center, Knapp Center, Carlson Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Lewis and Clark Park, Cedar Rapids Ice Arena, Liberty Bank Stadium, Davenport Speedway, O. R. Latham Stadium, Young Arena, Perry Park. Excerpt: The Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, more recently known as the Long Lines Family Recreation Center, is a 3,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. The fifth in a line of major indoor venues built in Sioux City, it was designed by Knute E. Westerlind in 1938 and finally completed after many delays in 1950. Originally independent, the auditorium is now a part of the Tyson Events Center along with Gateway Arena, built in 2003. For countless generations, the Native American residents at the confluence of the Big Sioux River with the Missouri River held their ceremonies, performances, and sporting events primarily outdoors, without need of specialized structures. The fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1830 forced them to leave Iowa, and forty years later the new White residents built the first in a series of five major indoor venues for Sioux City: the Academy of Music of 1870, the Peavey Grand Opera House of 1888, the Old Municipal Auditorium of...