Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Culver City, California)

 memorial, auditorium, meeting house

Bond financing of $550,000 enabled the construction of the Veterans Memorial Building in 1950-1951. The original plans promised a "recreational building with a stage, restaurant, film museum, playroom, and large gymnasium."
The building would offer auditorium seating for 2,000.
The cornerstone was laid on 15 April 1950.
Locals got their first preview of the Veterans Auditorium on 2 February 1951, at the Chamber of Commerce annual Installation. Four hundred civic and community leaders attended the dinner at which Firley Cleveland replaced outgoing C of C president Charles Milliken. (The Chamber office was located in the Rotunda Room of the building during its early history.)
Goodwin Knight, Lt. Governor at the time, attended the dedication of the Veterans Memorial Auditorium on 9 March 1951, and the Gold Star Mothers were the guests of honor.