Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The only stadium that will have hosted the Summer Olympics three times — and it was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I.
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Completed in 1923, this 93,607-seat bowl hosted the 1932 and 1984 Games, Super Bowl I, and the Dodgers' first four Los Angeles seasons. Its National Historic Landmark designation arrived on July 27, 1984 — one day before the 1984 opening ceremony took place inside. The 2028 Olympics will make it the first venue to reach three Summer Games, a record no other stadium holds.
What to look for
- The sheer scale of the 93,607-seat bowl, once the largest stadium in both the NFL and the Pac-12 Conference
- The playing surface now titled United Airlines Field — corporate naming rights layered over a structure jointly owned by the state, county, and the City of Los Angeles
- National Historic Landmark plaques marking the July 27, 1984 designation, which arrived one day before the opening ceremony of the Games held inside
In Exposition Park directly adjacent to USC's University Park campus; USC Trojans home games are the most accessible way to see the interior.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.