Jim Heimann Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir, Chronicle Books: San Francisco, CA, 1999, 159 pp., 1925
p. 83 ["The Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles was a grittier venue for sportive pleasures and replaced the Vernon Arena in 1925 with seating for 15,000. It, too, had a reputation for harboring a criminal element in its cigar-soaked halls."]