The auditorium was designed by renowned Bay Area architects John Galen Howard , Frederick Herman Meyer and John W. Reid , Jr. and built in 1915 as part of the Panama – Pacific International Exposition . The auditorium hosted the 1920 Democratic National Convention , the San Francisco Opera from 1923 to 1932 and again for the 1996 season , the National AAU boxing trials in 1948 , and it was the home of the San Francisco Warriors of the National Basketball Association from 1964 to 1967 . An underground expansion , named Brooks Hall , was completed in 1958 under the Civic Center Plaza , immediately north of the Civic Auditorium . The famous Mother of All Demos was presented here during the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference , and the World Cyber Games 2004 were also held here
1920 Democratic National Convention
1920 Democratic National Convention
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium