Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center (formerly known as Veterans Memorial Auditorium ) is a building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa , that is part of the Iowa Events Center . Named to honor the World War II veterans of Polk County , it opened on February 1, 1955.
6-550: Veterans Memorial Auditorium may refer to: Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Des Moines, Iowa) , previous home arena of the Iowa Barnstormers Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Columbus, Ohio) Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Providence, Rhode Island) See also [ edit ] Memorial Auditorium (disambiguation) War Memorial Auditorium (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
12-408: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Des Moines, Iowa) On May 22, 1956, Elvis Presley was the first major act to perform there while on tour of the upper Midwest. Elvis would perform in the auditorium twice more, on June 20, 1974, and his fourth to last concert ever on June 23, 1977. It was home to
18-709: The Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team from 1957 to 1992, who had previously used the Drake Fieldhouse as their home court and played their first game in their new home on January 11, 1957, against the Iowa State Cyclones . When it was home court for the Bulldogs, it had 11,411 seats with the capacity to add an additional 4,000 for concerts and another 7,500 bleacher seats for basketball games. Commonly known as "Vets" or "The Barn," it
24-504: The head off a bat . World Wrestling Entertainment also broadcast their WWE Raw program from the venue. It was also the site of the 1989 steel cage match between Hulk Hogan and Big Boss Man on Saturday Night's Main Event XXI . With the opening of Wells Fargo Arena , the auditorium was relegated to a supporting arena role. In the fall of 2010, it was closed and renovated into a state-of-the-art convention facility that added
30-452: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Veterans Memorial Auditorium . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veterans_Memorial_Auditorium&oldid=984757299 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-515: Was the long-time host for minor league basketball, arena football, Iowa high school basketball and wrestling tournaments, and high school graduations. Prior to the opening of Wells Fargo Arena , Vets Auditorium had served as the primary venue of sporting events and concerts in the Des Moines area for many years; this was also the site of the January 20, 1982 concert in which Ozzy Osbourne bit
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