Talk:Spectrum (arena)

message: According to Chapter XXX ("MUNICIPAL STADIUM") on pages 419–423 of the Exposition's 520-page official record entitled "The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition" by E.L Austin (Director-in-Chief) and Odell Hauser (Director of Publicity) published in 1929, the official name of the stadium when it opened in 1926 was "Philadelphia Municipal Stadium" and not "Sesqui-Centennial Stadium." Centpacrr 04:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "The Municipal Stadium erected within the grounds of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition and the scene of many of its most colorful events will long remain not only as a memorial of the Exposition but as a substanial contribution to the facilities of the city for staging large outdoor events and athletic games." "The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition" by E.L Austin and Odell Hauser; Chapter XXX ("MUNICIPAL STADIUM") p. 419 Centpacrr 10:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Philadelphia Municipal Stadium

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:WachSpectlogo.jpg

message: Hey - in the first line, there's a missing closing bracket (I think) after the years it was called First Union Spectrum - it closes the years, but not the formerly known as statement. I'd probably change the overall enclosure to a comma, like "blah blah, formerly known as First Union Center(year-year)," but it's protected.
If I'm missing something, sorry.
- David DiBattiste (talk) 00:19, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Edit 

message: Now that the arena is closed (and eventually will be demolished), should the article name go back to "The Spectrum".. either now or after it's razed?  We can't use a "current" name if the venue doesn't exist, and the no-sponsor-name is the most commonly used and remembered.  Additionally: when the naming rights to the Wachovia Center change (presumably to the Wells Fargo Center, but that's irrelevant here), what would we do with the name of this article?  I realzie that bringing this up now may be a bit premature, but it's inevitably going to come up.  Just some food for thought...  Me Three (talk to me) 14:42, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I see the article was moved some time ago, but historical references to the venue refer to it simply as "Spectrum".  (If preceded by "the", it is not capitalized).  I've moved the article to Spectrum (arena) to comply with WP:DAB, and updated the intro and main logo to refer to its most commonly used name. Me Three (talk to me) 15:01, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I recall the arena being referred to as "the Philadelphia Spectrum" for quite some time (and our article's lead contains this name).  Should we rename the article Philadelphia Spectrum (thereby eliminating the need for parenthetical disambiguation)?  —David Levy 15:26, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Philadelphia Spectrum" was never a formal name for the building, but just something sometimes used by boxing and wrestling ring announcers. Prior to the purchase of naming rights in the mid 1990s by Corestates Bank (later First Union, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo as those banks were merged and their names changed), the name of the building was just the "Spectrum" with nothing else. Centpacrr (talk) 20:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name - back to "The Spectrum"? 

message: As a former resident of the Delaware Valley, and a habitue of many an event during the 70s, I can attest that nearly everyone I knew referred to the building as "the Rectum". Gimelgort 14:11, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

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