Veterans Memorial Stadium (also known as Veterans Stadium, Vets Stadium or simply The Vet) is an 11,600-seat stadium located south of the Liberal Arts Campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. It is the home stadium to a number of local area high school football teams, as well as Long Beach City College's football team. It was also home to Long Beach State's football team until the program disbanded in 1991. The stadium is also popular as a movie set for a number of Hollywood motion pictures. It also hosted the 1985 and 1988 Motorcycle Speedway World Team Cup Finals. History Veterans Stadium opened in 1950, and was owned by the City of Long Beach for nearly four decades. The city used the stadium as a temporary location for Fire Station 19 (now located on Clark Avenue, a few blocks away). The fire station was housed at the south end of the stadium under the bleacher area, and the large door that was installed for the fire engine to exit can still be seen. The station itself (or living quarters area) is now used as an office for stadium personnel. Two years before the Vet was opened, pro football came to Long Beach when the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League became the Long Beach Bulldogs for the 1948 season. The minor-league PCPFL was on its last legs by this time, and so were the Bulldogs, a legendary West Coast team that had fallen on hard times since the NFL's Los Angeles Rams had relocated from Cleveland, and the AAFC was formed with the Los Angeles Dons. After drawing just 850 fans for a Bulldogs game at Stephen's Field on the campus of Wilson High School in Long Beach on October 17, 1948, the Bulldogs promptly cancelled the rest of their schedule, and they and the PCPFL folded soon after. Finally, in 1967, the Vet hosted a professional football team: the Long Beach Admirals were admitted to the Continental Football League as part of the league's expansion to the west coast. The Admirals drew only 2,475 fans for an exhibition game, and just 950 fans for their regular season opener, a 37-13 blowout loss to the Seattle Rangers. The team then applied for an immediate relocation to Portland, Oregon; after this was denied, the Admirals dropped out of the league and folded. In