A Depression-era WPA project grew into Florida's big-event workhorse. Camping World Stadium at 1 Citrus Bowl Place in Orlando's West Lakes neighbourhood began in 1936 as Orlando Stadium, built by the Works Progress Administration for 115,000 dollars with seating for 8,900 beside the old Tinker Field ballpark. The inaugural Tangerine Bowl on New Year's Day 1947 - Catawba beating Maryville 31-6 - started the bowl-game tradition that named the stadium for decades, and successive expansions in 1952,.....

Orlando's oldest continuously running institution is not a theme park - it is the fairgrounds on West Colonial Drive. The Central Florida Fairgrounds at 4603 West Colonial Drive occupy 87 lakefront acres about four miles west of downtown, home of the Central Florida Fair, founded in 1912 by community leaders celebrating the region's agricultural economy - decades before the first mouse ear appeared in Orange County. The fair remains the largest not-for-profit fair in Central Florida and among th.....

A church that began in an art museum grew into one of Orlando's most established independent congregations. Church In The Son at 4484 North John Young Parkway, one block off Orange Blossom Trail next to the Channel 6 television studios, held its first service on Palm Sunday 1990 at the Orlando Museum of Art, drawing over 250 people with no denominational backing. Founder Alex Clattenburg was already a fixture of central Florida's charismatic movement: a former real-estate dealmaker who led the R.....

The lawn slopes down toward a stage with Lake Lawne behind it, and on festival days 10,000 people fill the grass. The Orlando Amphitheater at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 West Colonial Drive, opened in 2016 and quickly became the city's workhorse outdoor concert venue. The setting is the point: the fairgrounds' lakeside acreage west of downtown gave Orlando something it lacked - an open-air, general-admission bowl holding 10,000 standing or around 7,000 with lawn chairs, built without .....

Babe Ruth played here, Jackie Robinson played here, and on March 6, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his only central Florida speech from the pitcher's mound. Tinker Field, at 287 South Tampa Avenue beside Camping World Stadium in Orlando's West Lakes neighborhood, is one of the most storied grounds in Florida sport. Baseball has been played on the site since 1914; the first stadium, an all-wood 1,500-seater promoted by Hall of Fame shortstop turned Orlando developer Joe Tinker, was dedic.....

West Colonial Drive works late, and so does this room. Xperience Live, at 6385 West Colonial Drive in Orlando's Pine Hills district, is an intimate event center and nightclub that has carved out a niche as one of the west side's go-to stages for hip-hop, R&B and Latin bookings. The venue runs club hours - typically Friday through Sunday nights from 10 pm into the small hours - and flips between ticketed concerts, DJ nights, comedy and private events across its compact floor. Capacity sits arou.....