The Mens Gym on the campus of

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, now known as the Student Activities Center, is a 2,000 seat multi-purpose building in

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. It opened in 1932. It was home to the

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teams until

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opened for the 1965–66 basketball season. It was informally known as the " B. O. barn." In 1955, the

city

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declared the building unsafe for a crowd of greater than 1,300. UCLA basketball games then also were played at the

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, the

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and other venues around Los Angeles. The building was also home to and continues to house the Departments of Military Science (Army ROTC - established in 1920 when UCLA was located at the Vermont Avenue campus and known as the Southern Branch of the University of California), Naval Science (Navy ROTC - added in 1938) and Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC - added in 1949). The building is located at the bottom of Janss steps across Bruin Walk from Ackerman Union and below Powell Library.

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