The Pan Pacific Auditorium opened in 1935 and is one of the finest examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the U.S. Throughout the following 30 years it would host the Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters, ice hockey games, basketball, tennis, car shows, political rallies, circuses, radio broadcasts and professional wrestling. Leopold Stokowski conducted there in 1936, General Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke to a beyond-capacity crowd of 10,000 in 1952 a month before being elected President, and Elvis Presley performed there in 1957 shortly before he was drafted into the Army.