St. Louis Arena (known as the Checkerdome from 1977 to 1983) was an indoor arena in

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. The country's second-largest indoor entertainment venue when it opened in 1929, it was home to the

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and other sports franchises. The Arena sat across

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from Forest Park's Aviation Field. The Arena hosted conventions, concerts, political rallies, horse shows, circuses, boxing matches, professional wrestling, Roller Derby competitions, indoor soccer matches, the

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and 1978 NCAA men's basketball Final Four, the NCAA Men's Midwest Regional finals in 1982, 1984, and 1993, the 1992–94

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men's basketball tournament, the 1968, 1969, and 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, and the 1975 NCAA

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ice hockey finals. It was demolished in 1999.

History

At the conclusion of the

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, St. Louis ended its long tradition of annually hosting large indoor agriculture and horse shows. The city tore down its huge

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and built the St. Louis Coliseum which was aimed at individual events such as boxing matches. In 1928 the

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offered the city the opportunity to become the permanent location for its annual two-week meeting of dairymen and their prize animals. With no public funds available, a group of businessmen raised private funding for what was projected as a $2 million building. The National Exposition Company in charge of the project hired Gustel R. Kiewitt as architect and the Boaz-Kiel Construction Company as general contractor. Kiewit's design called for a lamella roof supported by 20 cantilever steel trusses, eliminating the need for view-obscuring internal support pillars. The lamella design consisted of Douglas fir ribs, thick, wide and long, fitted together diagonally and giving the appearance of fish scales. The huge structure was completed in 1929, just over a year after construction began. At long and wide, it was behind only Madison Square Garden as the largest indoor entertainment space in the country. A 13-story building could have been erected inside of it. The Arena was not well-maintained after the 1940s, and its roof was damaged by a February 1959 tornado. After repairs, it was re-opened as the home of the

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's St. Louis Braves, a Chicago Black Hawks farm team. The renovations included the removal of the fencing that enforced

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, dating back to the time of the

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. On March 19, 1971, the St. Louis Stars hosted the

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here, which was the first indoor soccer tournament sanctioned by a

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professional league in U.S. history. In the 1973 NCAA Basketball Final, the

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and legendary coach John Wooden defeated

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87–66, behind 44 points from

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who went 21 of 22 from the floor. Over 19,000 were in attendance at the Arena. On February 13, 1974, the St. Louis Stars played host to the

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team at the Arena in the final match of Russian squad's three-city indoor soccer tour of North America. Attendance for the match was 12,241. In the 1978 NCAA Basketball Final, the

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and coach Joe B. Hall defeated

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94–88, led by the 41-point effort of

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. From 1980 to 1993, St. Louis Arena was the site of the Braggin' Rights basketball game played between the

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and the

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Spirits of St. Louis – ABA Era (1974–76)

After the 1968 departure of the NBA's

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, the Carolina Cougars moved to the city and took the name Spirits of St. Louis. The Spirits played in the Arena for the final two seasons of the American Basketball Association (ABA), 1974–75 and 1975–76. Their announcer on KMOX radio was a young

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. Young players such as Steve Jones ("Snapper", now a TV analyst),

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("Bad News),

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and

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all played for the Spirits during their tenure at the Arena. The team was not included in the

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in 1976, when the Indiana Pacers,

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, Denver Nuggets and

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joined the NBA. The Spirits and the Kentucky Colonels were disbanded. Spirits owners

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pulled off a coup in their dissolution agreement when the ABA–NBA merger was finalized. The Silnas negotiated to receive a portion of TV monies in perpetuity, a deal that netted them over $250 million before they were bought out by the NBA in 2014 for a reported $500 million.

The St. Louis Blues era (1967–1994)

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By the time the NHL's

began playing at the Arena, it had fallen into such poor condition that it had to be heavily renovated for the 1967–68 season. As a condition of getting the expansion franchise, Blues owner Sid Salomon Jr. purchased the Arena from the

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and spent several million dollars to renovate the building and add some 3,000 seats, bringing the total to almost 15,000. It never stopped being renovated from that day on, and held almost 20,000 seats by the time the Blues left the Arena in 1994. Many fans considered its sight lines the best of any arena in the league, which is remarkable considering that it was not originally built for hockey. It was also known as one of the loudest arenas in the league. The Blues played their first game at the Arena on October 11, 1967, against the

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, which ended in a 2–2 tie.

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scored the building's first goal while Larry Keenan scored the first Blues goal. In 1977, the Arena and the Blues were purchased by

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, which rechristened the building the Checkerdome after the company's checkerboard logo. By 1983, the cereal and pet food corporation had lost interest in the Blues and the Arena, and forfeited the team to the league. The team was nearly moved to

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, before it was purchased by

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, a Los Angeles-based businessman, who promptly returned the Arena to its original name. The Blues played their final game at the Arena on April 24, 1994, losing game four of the first round to the

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2–1.

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scored the Blues' final goal in the Arena while Dallas'

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scored the building's final two goals. After the Blues moved to their new home, the venue now known as Enterprise Center, during the 1994 offseason, the final event at the St. Louis Arena was a concert by Christian artist

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Closure and demolition (1994–1999)

As a condition for the private financing of the demolition of city-owned

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and the construction of privately owned

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(now the Enterprise Center) on the same Downtown site, local business group Civic Progress, Inc. insisted that the

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-neighborhood would not be allowed to compete with Kiel Center for any events, while the insurance burden for the building was left with the City of St. Louis. With no income allowed for the Arena while insurance expenses continued, the building sat vacant while pressure built on the city government to either make it revenue-producing (essentially impossible under the Civic Progress-imposed non-compete clause) or raze it. The Arena remained vacant for nearly five years before it was demolished in 1999.

The Arena site today

A business/residential development, The Highlands (named after an amusement park that was once adjacent to the site), now occupies the land that the St. Louis Arena called home, and includes the following: *Four apartment buildings, of which the two northern-most feature loft-style units. *A

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hotel, a restaurant, a coffee shop and bakery, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals of Greater St. Louis, and a yoga studio. *1001 Highlands Plaza Drive West, an office building home to—among other businesses—the St. Louis group of iHeartMedia's radio stations (

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, and KSD). *A grass plaza, with an oval grass section surrounded by concrete sidewalks now sits at 1001 Highlands Plaza Drive West at the location where the original arena stood. *A medical office building.

Sports teams

Sports teams that called the Arena home include: * St. Louis Flyers of the AHA and AHL (1929–1953) *

of the

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(1934–1935) *

of the NHL (occasional use, 1953–1959) * St. Louis Braves of the CHL (1963–1967) *

of the NHL (1967–1994) *

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of the NBA (occasional use, 1955–1968) * St. Louis Stars of the NASL (1971 and 1974) * Spirits of St. Louis of the ABA (1974–1976) * St. Louis Steamers of the MISL (1979–1988) * St. Louis Storm of the MISL (1989–1992) * St. Louis Ambush of the NPSL (1992–1994) * Saint Louis University basketball team (1968–1971, 1975–1976, 1978–1982 and 1991–1994) * Saint Louis University hockey team (1970–1979) * St. Louis Vipers of RHI (1993–1994)

Concerts

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performed a single sold-out show on April 15, 1977, at the St. Louis Arena as part of their final North American tour. *Grateful Dead, May 15, 1977. *

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and

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performed in concert on December 6, 1978. During the show a massive ice storm hit St. Louis and concert goers left the venue to find everything covered in a thick glaze of ice and serious traffic problems. * The Bee Gees performed here on August 1, 1979, as part of their Spirits Having Flown Tour. * Fleetwood Mac performed two sold-out shows here as part of their Tusk Tour on November 5 and 6, 1979. *The Charlie Daniels Band and Leon Russell performed here on Friday, December 26, 1980. *The Electric Light Orchestra and

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performed here on ELO's Time Tour on October 29, 1981. *

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Synchronicity Tour performed here on July 24, 1983, with

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as the opening act. *

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performed at the Checkerdome on December 4, 1982. Opening acts were Morris Day and the Time and

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* Pink Floyd performed

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at the St. Louis Arena on November 15 and 16, 1987. *

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performed a sold–out show in front of 36,000 people at St. Louis Arena, during his

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on March 13, 1988. The scheduled March 12, 1988 was canceled due to sickness and rescheduled for March 14 which was also cancelled. *Van Halen performed for their ''OU812'' Tour on November 8 and 9, 1988 *

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performed at St. Louis Arena for their

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on November 7 and 8, 1990. * Bruce Springsteen performed at the St. Louis Arena January 28, 1981

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, November 15, 1984

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, April 17, 1988 Tunnel Of Love Tour and December 3, 1992

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. * Metallica performed at the St. Louis Arena for their Wherever We May Roam Tour on November 24, 1991 * Neil Diamond performed at the St. Louis Arena December 11, 1977, May 27, 1982, April 26–27, 1983, August 26–27, 1984, December 11–12, 1985, June 13, 1989, and March 10, 1993.

References

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