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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
...and while we're down in Long Beach.
I had forgotten there was a giant mural on the façade of the old Long Beach Municipal Auditorium.
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Was it saved?
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Did anyone answer this yet? Yes, it was saved. It's now on the exterior of a parking structure at 3rd and Locust (alias The Promenade) in Long Beach. I was in the old Municipal Auditorium many times. It was a wonderfully evocative place. The ceiling of the auditorium proper (the big room with the stage and where the audience sat) was painted a la Michelangelo, so there was lots to look at. During intermissions or whatever, one could step out onto a sort of open-air terrace overlooking the water's edge and beach . . . but they must have had some sort of leakage problem, as the terrace was lined with tar-paper, so it had an aroma which really opened up the sinuses. Its replacement, called the Terrace Theater, is pleasant enough, but doesn't have the evocative qualities of its predecessor.