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Orlando Stadium / Tangerine Bowl (Camping World Stadium)

1 Citrus Bowl Place, Orlando, FL

Opened in late 1936 as Orlando Stadium with 8,900 seats, then rebuilt so many times that its 2014 reconstruction demolished the entire lower bowl.

📅 1936–present🏛️ StadiumRepurposed
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The story

The stadium opened in late 1936 as Orlando Stadium, with a capacity of 8,900. It has carried a run of names: Tangerine Bowl from 1947 to 1975, Citrus Bowl in 1976, Orlando Stadium again from 1977 to 1982, Florida Citrus Bowl from 1983 to 2013, and Orlando Citrus Bowl from 2014 to 2016. The first Tangerine Bowl game was played in 1947.

It was expanded in 1952, 1968, 1974 to 1976, and 1989. The upper deck added in the 1976 expansion drew criticism because it swayed during games. The stadium hosted five matches of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Olympic soccer in 1996, WrestleMania XXIV in 2008 and WrestleMania 33 in 2017. Pink Floyd played here in 1988. The 2014 reconstruction demolished the lower bowl and kept the upper deck. That work also shortened the neighboring Tinker Field, which led to its demolition.

What's There Now

It is still a stadium, now called Camping World Stadium, hosting football, soccer and concerts.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The stadium has been called Orlando Stadium in two separate eras, 1936 to 1946 and 1977 to 1982.
The 1976 upper deck swayed during games.
Garth Brooks set the concert attendance record in 2022.

Nearby history

Tinker Field

287 S Tampa Ave · 216 m away
A spring training ballpark where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the pitcher's mound in 1964, torn down so the Citrus

Goff's Drive-In

212 S Orange Blossom Trl · 551 m away
A walk-up ice cream stand in Parramore that served Black and white customers at the same window and kept going through a

Chastain's Restaurant

23 N Orange Blossom Trl · 735 m away
A truck-stop-style breakfast spot with a glass radio booth in the parking lot, closed after one last breakfast on Septem

Orlando Drive-In Theatre

1001 S Orange Blossom Trail · 1.1 km away
The area's first drive-in opened on February 7, 1940, with Vivacious Lady and a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Parliament House

410 N Orange Blossom Trl · 1.2 km away
A 1962 motor inn that became Orlando's best-known gay resort in 1975, and closed in November 2020 when the owners could

Orlando Arena / Amway Arena

600 W Amelia St · 2.0 km away
The Magic's first home, a $110 million public-money arena that locals called the O-Rena, imploded in 2012.

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