Madison Square Garden

[Marc the Smark]

Am I correct that MSG was re-built a couple of times? But why? And can someone give me some years? Was the MSG building for WrestleMania 20 the same place for WrestleMania 1? I'm confused.

[Xero]

I know that there have been at least three MSGs. WrestleMania 1 was held in the same building as XX. I believe the current one was built in the 70s.

[Chavo Classic]

It's definately the same used ten years earlier for WM X, but i'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

[Xero]

This is from Wikipedia...

The site of the first Madison Square Garden was formerly the Union Depot of the New York and Harlem Railroad. When the depot was moved to the current site of Grand Central Terminal in 1871 the depot was sold to P.T. Barnum and converted into hippodrome called "Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome". In 1876 it was renamed to Gilmore's Garden.

William Henry Vanderbilt officially renamed Gilmore's Garden to Madison Square Garden and reopened the facility to the public on May 30, 1879 at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. The first arena was originally built for the sport of track cycling, which is still remembered in the name of the Madison event.

The second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, who would later be killed there, opened at this site in 1890 and remained until the third Garden opened in 1925. On February 11, 1968 Madison Square Garden III closed and Madison Square Garden IV opened.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden#History

So there have been four MSGs, and the current one opened in 1968, so obviously WrestleMania I occurred in the same building as XX.