The Mecca Floor Milwaukee

The uw milwaukee panther arena originally the milwaukee arena and formerly mecca arena and u s.

The mecca floor milwaukee.

11am 10pm fri. The floor was so iconic it had an espn 30 for 30 short created about it. Robert indiana s colorful mecca floor put milwaukee on the map in 1977. The 1 million white way scoreboard contains four toshiba video walls that may be used for private parties conventions and lectures.

When the people of milwaukee had the chance to renovate the bucks basketball court they chose to do something very avant garde for a midwestern city in the 1970s. More than 30 years later bucks fan andy gorzalski puts his family s credit card down for 20k to protect this iconic. 11am close sun. In the 1970s the city of milwaukee hired an artist to paint the bucks floor.

Transitioning from a source of controversy to an iconic symbol for milwaukee while becoming the world s largest pop art painting. Bucks fans from far and wide came to the us cellular arena formerly mecca to celebrate basketball art and history. Construction workers pulled apart the mecca floor. Cellular arena is an indoor arena located in milwaukee wisconsin the arena which seats as many as 12 700 people and offers 41 700 square feet 3 874 m 2 of floor space is part of a larger downtown campus that includes the milwaukee theatre and wisconsin center.

4pm 10pm thurs. 11am close sat. Clippers coach who played on that floor while at marquette and later as a bucks opponent said in 2014. Doc rivers the l a.

The new basketball floor produced by power lock protable floor company was painted in a modified version of the robert indiana mecca arena design that attracted nationwide attention when unveiled in 1977. 4pm 10pm wed.