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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Led Zeppelin used it as a North American base of operations in the early 1970s, Jimi Hendrix played it nine months after it opened, and the Canucks called it home for a quarter century. The Pacific Coliseum, at 100 North Renfrew Street on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver, opened on 8 January 1968 and remains the city's hardest-working arena. The building is a piece of 1960s Formalism: architect W.K. Noppe's circular bowl with its distinctive ring of white panels cost 6 milli...