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The El Monte Legion Stadium —also known as Legion Stadium, [2] El Monte Union High School Auditorium, [3] El Monte Auditorium, [4] El Monte Gymnasium, [5] Old El Monte Gym, [6] and The Pink Elephant[7] —was a 3,500-seat multi-purpose indoor venue in El Monte, California. It had originally been a combined auditorium and gymnasium located on ...
El Monte is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city lies in the San Gabriel Valley, east of the city of Los Angeles. El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and is historically known as " The End of the Santa Fe Trail ". As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 109,450, down from 113,475 at ...
In 1960, Art Laboe released one of the first oldies compilations, Memories of El Monte, on his record label, Original Sound. The record was a collection of classic doo-wop songs by bands that used to play at the dances Laboe organized at Legion Stadium in El Monte, California, [83] beginning in 1955.
Synopsis. The show was created by and hosted by Cliffie Stone and first held at the Legion Stadium in El Monte, California, and later at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim, California. Hometown Jamboree was sponsored by the Hub Furniture store once it moved to Anaheim. The show was the springboard for many of country music's premier musicians ...
A chapter in the book, Generations of youth: youth cultures and history in twentieth-century America by Joe Austin and Michael Willard, is entitled “Memories of El Monte" Intercultural Dance Halls in Post-World War II Los Angeles. [19] "Memories of El Monte" was used in the movie Colors. [20] It is the name of an annual oldies show in El ...
Larkin was born in El Monte, California.He had a severe stutter by the time he learned to speak. This stutter contributed to his emotionally traumatic childhood. [2] At age twelve, he began to learn the piano and was introduced to the art of scat singing two years later through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, among others. [3]
Born Iris Colleen Summers, Mary Ford was born in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers (born February 13, 1896, in Ridgway, Illinois; died August 5, 1981, in Los Angeles), [2] [3] [4] a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, [5] and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers.
Born in El Monte, California, John Paul Larkin suffered from a severe stutter by the time he learned to speak which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. At age twelve, he began to learn piano and was introduced to the art of scat singing two years later, through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, among others. Larkin became a ...