@article{Auditorium:1820,
      recid = {1820},
      author = {Aerial Photography Services},
      title = {Ovens Auditorium and the Charlotte Coliseum},
      address = {1955},
      abstract = {Ovens Auditorium is located on East Independence  Boulevard. Conpletedin 1955, it was named  for outspoken  civic leader David Ovens (1872-1957),  the leader of the  auditorium-coliseum citizen planning committee. The  2,600-seat auditorium adjoins the Charlotte Coliseum, which  also opened in 1955. At one time, the building had the  world's largest unsupported concrete dome.  The  208,400-square-foot Charlotte Coliseum featured nearly  10,000 seats. At the time of construction, it was the  largest unsupported steel dome in the world, spanning just  over 332 feet wide and 112 feet high. After the second  coliesum on Tyvola Road opened in 1988,  yhe old coliesum  was renamed Independence Arena. Today it is known know as  the Bojangles Coliesum.
Color by C.H. Ruth},
      url = {http://vault.cmlibrary.org/record/1820},
}