The Mecca Floor Milwaukee

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

The mecca floor milwaukee.

Clippers coach who played on that floor while at marquette and later as a bucks opponent said in 2014. Construction workers pulled apart the mecca floor. 4pm 10pm thurs. Bucks fans from far and wide came to the us cellular arena formerly mecca to celebrate basketball art and history.

Doc rivers the l a. 11am close sat. Workers install the mecca court at milwaukee arena for tonight s game. They decided to use their public funds to commission robert indiana an openly gay artist from manhattan to paint the floor of the mecca.

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. 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. Transitioning from a source of controversy to an iconic symbol for milwaukee while becoming the world s largest pop art painting. In the 1970s the city of milwaukee hired an artist to paint the bucks floor.

The floor was so iconic it had an espn 30 for 30 short created about it. 11am close sun. Robert indiana s colorful mecca floor put milwaukee on the map in 1977. 11am 10pm fri.

4pm 10pm wed. More than 30 years later bucks fan andy gorzalski puts his family s credit card down for 20k to protect this iconic.