Singer Bowl
 Entrance during the 1964 World's Fair | |
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| Location | Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′04″N 73°50′44″W / 40.751°N 73.8455°W |
| Opened | 1964 |
| Closed | 2016 |
Flushing
Location in the United States
Flushing
Location in New York
Singer Bowl
Location in New York City
The Singer Bowl was the former name for a
borough of Queens
. It was an early example of naming rights in large venues.
History
The stadium was designed by
The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin) were also part of the festival at the stadium. Two years after civil engineers judged its structure unsafe, the Singer Bowl was renovated by the Parks Department at a cost of $317,400 in 1971.[2]
In the summer of 1972, professional boxing was held at the Singer Bowl. Some of the fighters who boxed there included
heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson,[4][5] and future world champions Vito Antuofermo and Saoul Mamby. Other boxers of note that fought at the Singer Bowl in 1972 were Edwin Viruet, John Clohessy, Roy Edmonds, Eduardo Santiago.[3]
Tennis
In the early 1970s, the
Louis Armstrong Memorial Stadium in 1973 after a famous Corona resident, jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong.[3]
Heavily renovated in 1977, it reopened in
USTA National Tennis Center.[3] When the USTA built Arthur Ashe Stadium next door in 1997, the largest tennis-only venue in the world, the seating capacity
of Armstrong was reduced to be closer to its original format.
It was demolished in October 2016 as part of the Billie Jean King Tennis Center renovation.[6]
References
Notes
- ^ One-page excerpt about the Singer Bowl from the 1964 World's Fair Information Manual. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ a b c "City to Repair Old Singer Bowl on Fair Grounds". The New York Times. February 28, 1971. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Belson, Ken (9 September 2012). "Armstrong, Back When It Wasn't Tennis Rocking the House". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ "Patterson scores TKO over Agosto". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. July 15, 1972. p. 7.
- ^ "Patterson scores TKO over foe". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. July 15, 1972. p. 9.
- ^ "Open Lens: Louis Armstrong and Grandstand Demolition | Photos | 2016 US Open Official Site - A USTA Event". www.usopen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24.
Further reading
External links
- Streets You Crossed – Flushing the Bowl
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