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Originally Posted by Andy6
My grandmother grew up on Whitehall, right next door to the Amphitheatre. Their house was demolished around 1931 when the stadium was built and then the houses on the south side of the street were mostly sold and demolished due to the noise and traffic that the stadium was causing.
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Do you know why the stadium ended up there? It seems to me that by the time it was built (Wikipedia says it opened in 1932), that would have been a bit of an odd choice for a location given that the site was obviously cramped and in a fairly prime position directly across from the Legislature.