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In 1924, Jack Doyle (here without the cigar), with the help of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee for the 1932 Games, built the Grand Olympic Auditorium and ran the place as the fight-promoter from 1927 until about 1942:
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More on Doyle:
"A Teetotaler's Bar and Boxing Mecca" by Cecilia Rasmussen for LAT
Doyle died in 1944, aged 66, in Santa Monica.
The house that Jack built:
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A screengrab of the interior (William Holden in "The Turning Point", 1952):
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