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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Keith Richards was nearly electrocuted on this stage in 1965, and the building has outlived nearly everything else in downtown Sacramento. The Sacramento Memorial Auditorium at 1515 J Street, filling the block between 15th and 16th and I and J Streets, opened on 22 February 1927 as a memorial to the local servicemen who died in the Spanish-American War and World War I - which is why its five double front doors were built without locks, the lobby originally intended as an open shrine. City archit...