The Monroe Civic Center Arena

Elvis Presley played five sold-out shows here between March 1974 and May 1975, but the arena's bookings ran well past him. The Jackson 5 came on April 5, 1971, then in 1973 and again in 1977. Ike and Tina Turner and B.B. King shared a bill on July 8, 1971. The arena seats 5,600, expandable to 7,200, and has also housed hockey teams, among them the Monroe Moccasins from 1997 to 2001 and again since 2024. The trail also credits Bob Dylan, Prince, Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn with appearances.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.9 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.7 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.2 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.1 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• W.L. "Jack" Howard Theatre — steps away
• B.D. Robinson Conference Hall — steps away
• The Honorable Abe Edward Pierce III Convention Center — steps away
• The Savoy Ballroom — 0.3 mi