![]() ![]() In the Summer of '66, with the Vietnam WarĮxpanding, the Watts Riots still haunting the city and hair getting Who can be accused of "selling out" is also buying in, because it's the Revolutionary-gets assimilated into modern entertainment. Thus anyĬultural progression-new, contrarian, regressive, progressive, even Los Angeles is an Entertainment industry town, and proud of it. This post acts as a companion piece to the other post, mainly just listing of Fillmore-type rock concerts at the Shrine Exposition Hall in the late 60s.įREAK OUT Hot Spots! Insert to the first Mothers of Invention album, with a map of underground sites in 1966 Los Angeles (Freak Out album released June 1966)ĪugShrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA: Mothers of Invention/others In writing my post on the Grateful Dead at the Shrine Expo Hall, I discovered that there was no accessible on-line repository of 60s rock shows at Shrine Expo Hall. In the sixties, at least, Los Angeles didn't really warm up to the Dead, and whether cause or corollary, the Shrine Expo Hall was far less important than comparable venues in other city. In another post, I discussed how the rise and decline of the Shrine Expo Hall was linked to the role of the Grateful Dead, as it was in so many cities. Yet it has nothing about the Shrine Exposition Hall, which tried to be VintageLA, forĮxample-which I can't recommend enough-has features on the Aquarius Theater and The Whisky-A-Go-Go. Is like reading about American popular culture history from the inside,Īnd 60s rock history has its place in that world. Looking at the best retro-LA sites, like VintageLA, LA always celebrates old theaters or nightclubs fromīrighter days, so often historical sites are better known now than they Glorification of its own history, particularly when it comes toĮntertainment. Los Angeles, more than any other American city, traffics in the From the 1970s onward, however, almost all rock concerts listed as "The Shrine" were at the Auditorium. In the late 1960s, most rock concert listings that say “Shrine” are typically at the Exposition Hall rather than the Auditorium. The Expo Hall had a capacity of about 5,000. The Exposition Hall, part of the same complex but around the corner at 700 West 32nd (at Figueroa) is a 56,000 square foot open area that was (and is) used for trade shows and conventions as well as rock concerts. The Auditorium has 6,489 seats on three levels. The stage is huge (186 by 72 feet) and it is a popular home for the Academy Awards. The main entrance to the Auditorium was at 665 West Jefferson Street. The building is in a Spanish Colonial Style with a Moorish flair. The Shrine Auditorium and Exposition Hall was built in 1925 by the Al Malikah Temple of the Masonic Order.
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