The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a prominent indoor venue in Los Angeles, California, United States, operating from 1935 until its closure in 1972. Designed by the architectural firm Wurdeman & Becket in the Streamline Moderne style, the auditorium featured a green-and-white façade with four aircraft-inspired towers. Over more than three decades, it hosted a wide range of events including sporting fixtures, political rallies, concerts, radio broadcasts and television productions. Notable visitors and performers included Leopold Stokowski, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. Although added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the building fell into disrepair and was eventually destroyed by fire in 1989. Its distinctive design inspired entrances at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure. This photograph, taken in the 1970s for the Historic American Buildings Survey, shows the entrance of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium with its distinctive towers.

Photographer: Marvin Rand