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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Zeppelin and Hendrix all played it, the Milwaukee Bucks won their only championship era home games in it, and it is still working. The UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, at 400 West Kilbourn Avenue downtown, opened on April 9, 1950 as the Milwaukee Arena. Designed by Eschweiler and Eschweiler and built for $7.6 million with a distinctive barrel roof, it was among the first arenas designed for broadcast television - a bet on the new medium that paid off across se...