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9 unusual facts about Civic Center


2002 Shell Grand Prix of Denver

It was the first Champ Car event in Denver since a 1991 street course event in Denver's Civic Center.

Bath City Surveyor

The prominent post of Bath City Architect and Surveyor was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, Somerset, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects.

Civic Center, Denver

When Speer was reelected in 1916, he re-pursued his ideas about the Civic Center, hiring Chicago planner and architect Edward H. Bennett, a protégé of Daniel Burnham.

Civic Center, Los Angeles

The Civic Center is served by numerous Metro buses, most of which run to adjacent Union Station, the 101 and 110 freeways, and the Metro Red Line and Purple Line's Civic Center Station are also in the vicinity.

OCTA, Foothill Transit, DASH shuttles, Commuter Express and other municipal bus lines also serve the area.

Civic Center, San Francisco

Civic Center Station is a subway stop for both BART and the Muni Metro.

Civic Center has three Universities located there; the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, the private The Art Institute of California – San Francisco and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Many street parades and parties are held in Civic Center Plaza, including San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade, the City's Earth Day celebration (which attracts 15,000+ people), the St. Patrick's Day parade, San Francisco's version of the Love Parade, and the San Francisco LovEvolution party.

Pioneer Monument

Pioneer Monument is a monument sculpted by Frank Happersberger and financed by James Lick, located in Civic Center, San Francisco, California, United States.


Charleston Civic Center

In 1953, the first in a series of general obligation bonds was approved by city voters for the construction of a civic center in the downtown area of Charleston, West Virginia between Lee Street and Quarrier Street on the banks of the Elk River just before the Elk River empties into the Kanawha River.


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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

In 1987 Mayor Dianne Feinstein proposed a plan to revitalize Civic Center that included relocating the museum to the Main Library.

Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex

The Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center was designed by Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, the winner of what was, at the time, the largest open architectural competition ever organized by the American Institute of Architects.

Bruce M. Bolin

In the 1983 campaign, U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., U.S. Representatives Jerry Huckaby and Buddy Roemer, then Louisiana House Speaker John Hainkel, and then state Representative Robert Adley headlined a testimonial dinner and fundraiser for Bolin held at the Minden Civic Center and attended by some one thousand supporters.

Bulevardul Unirii

Following the 1977 Vrancea earthquake, Bucharest's city center suffered significant damage, and a large number of historic buildings were demolished to make way for the new Centrul Civic (Civic Center; see systematization and Ceaușima).

Castel Capuano

The castle is at the east end of via dei Tribunali and until recently housed the Naples Hall of Justice, which has now moved to the new Civic Center, the Centro Direzionale.

Charleston Civic Center

Swift returned to the Civic Center twice more--in 2011 (for the Speak Now World Tour, and again in 2013 for the Red Tour, for which this arena was the only West Virginia stop.

Colin Lynes

The fight which took place at the Civic Center in Motherwell ended with Lynes claiming victory after 12 rounds.

Congress Parkway

Authors Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett proposed a broad new boulevard on the line of Congress Street that would cut through the long blocks between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, connecting a cultural center of new buildings in Grant Park to a new civic center centered on Congress and Halsted Street, then extending westward to parks and suburban areas beyond the city limits.

Dave Prater

Dave Prater had his last performance with Sam Daniels on April 3, 1988 at a Stax Reunion show at the Atlanta Civic Center, which also featured Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, and Rufus and Carla Thomas.

Declan Mullin

Mullin came to the U.S. in 1988, working for Spectator Management Group and has had operational review responsibilities for the Louisiana Superdome, the Memphis Cook Convention Center, the Atlantic City Convention Center, the Pittsburgh Civic Center, Tampa Bay Ice Palace and Jacksonville Stadium.

Donald L. Tucker Civic Center

The arena was named the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in 1977 in honor of Donald L. Tucker, Esq., a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Special Ambassador for the United States to the Dominican Republic.

Gisela Menossi

Menossi, from the province of Córdoba, was elected as Miss Argentina Earth 2009 in the Miss Argentina 2009 beauty pageant competition, produced by N-Entertainment, which was held on May 16, 2009 at the Civic Center Plaza, Seca, San Juan, Argentina.

Hammond Civic Center

On September 9, 2012, K.O. Sports Promotions hosted a boxing card for a capacity crowd at the Civic Center, with the main event featuring former USBO cruiserweight champion Carl Davis (boxer) in an eight round heavyweight bout against former number one heavyweight contender Bert Cooper.

History of Piedmont, California

He loaned the city enough to buy the park, and encouraged the Bay Area architect Albert L. Farr to create the Civic Center Plan.

I wireless Center

In August 2005, i wireless (formerly Iowa Wireless, a T-Mobile affiliate) announced a 10-year agreement with The MARK (former name) and the Illinois Quad City Civic Center Authority to secure naming rights to the arena.

Jefferson Franklin Jackson House

The house became known as the Community House and was used as a Girl Scouts headquarters, a social and civic center, and, in December 1948, the first Montgomery library open to African Americans.

Malone Stadium

The late Mayor W. L. "Jack" Howard pushed for construction of the new stadium, along with a new City Hall, Civic Center, and expanded Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo.

Mays Island

Functioning as a civic center rather much like the Île de la Cité, it is the site of the city hall, the Linn County Courthouse, and the county jail.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

The only title change at the Civic Center during WWF Championship Wrestling tapings was on June 17, 1985 when The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) defeated The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff, regaining the WWF Tag Team Championship they had lost to the pair at Wrestlemania on March 31, 1985.

Television commentators for the show at the Civic Center were WWF owner Vince McMahon and Bruno Sammartino with Jesse "The Body" Ventura occasionally joining the duo or filling in for Sammartino (Ventura also wrestled on the show occasionally as Randy Savage's tag-team partner, usually taunting Sammartino and challenging him to get in the ring).

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    Royal Castle, Warsaw

    In 1979, the historic Gateway Theatre in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago was purchased by the Copernicus Foundation with the intention of converting it into the seat of the Polish Cultural and Civic Center.

    San Diego Creek bicycle path

    It is the major bicycle backbone of Irvine and connects major points such as Newport Beach, University of California, Irvine, Boomers, Colonel Bill Barber Park, Irvine Civic Center, The Crossroads Shopping Center, Woodbridge High School, Woodbridge Community Park, Atria Senior Residential Area, Windrow Community Park, Irvine Medical Complex, and ultimately, Irvine Spectrum Center.

    Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools

    The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, or TAPPS, is an organization headquartered in the Salado Civic Center in downtown Salado, Texas.

    Umuarama

    From the top, left to right: Skyline of Umuarama; Hênio Romagnoli Square, at the civic center; Eiffel Tower replica, on the PR-323 highway; Main Campus of UNIPAR, one of the biggest private Universities of Paraná; Project of the future regional bus station, located on the Paraná Avenue, a region where the city is rapidly growing.