Uline Arena, AKA Washington Coliseum: DC’s forgotten venue
The Washington Coliseum, seen from the Red Line. Photo by Elvert Barnes, via Wikimedia Commons If you ride the Red Line Metro, you’ve probably seen it out the window at the New York Avenue stop: A...
View ArticleThe Beatles and More! The Musical History of Uline Arena
The Beatles were greeted by thousands of screaming teenagers when they arrived at Kennedy airport in New York on February 7, 1964. When they played their first American concert at the Washington...
View ArticleUline Arena, AKA Washington Coliseum: DC’s forgotten venue
If you ride the Red Line Metro, you've probably seen it out the window at the New York Avenue stop: A massive, rust-colored structure with a curvilinear-trussed roof. It looks like an abandoned...
View ArticleThe Beatles and More! The Musical History of Uline Arena
A previous post detailed the eclectic history of the Uline Arena, also known as Washington Coliseum, the barrel-roofed hall that from the 1940s through the 1980s hosted everything from hockey and...
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