Film Locations - Sporting Venues
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Duke University
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Built in 1940 with stone from the Duke Quarry that was used in the
original campus buildings
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Seats 9,300 with unique design of compact seating for students
surrounding the basketball court
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Home to basketball champions, the Duke
Blue Devils: in seven of the last 10 Final Fours, has 3 National
Championship titles 1991, 1992 and 2001. Roof completely lined with
national and conference championship banners and retired jerseys
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Opened in 1995 as one the "premier minor league ballparks in the
country"
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10,000 seats
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Resembles "old-time" ballparks, with red brick facade and the largest
canopy roofs
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Other features include expanded picnic areas, 24-foot homerun wall and
manually operated scoreboard reminiscent of Boston's Fenway Park
Historic Durham Athletic Park
500 W. Corporation St
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Built in 1926 as minor-league baseball facility, El Toro Stadium, with
backdrop of downtown Durham skyline
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Seats 3,500
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Hallmark of the facility is the round tower with conical roof which
serves as the ticket office
Wallace Wade Stadium
Science Dr
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Home of the Duke Blue Devils since 1929
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Horseshoe-shaped structure features aluminum bench seating for 35,000,
a computerized scoreboard, newly remodeled restrooms and a lighting
system for night games
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Natural grass field and 8-lane synthetic mondo rubber track surface
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Site of the 1942 Rose Bowl due to California blackout threat of
Japanese attack during WWII
McLendon-McDougald Gym/NCCU
1801 Fayetteville St
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Stadium seats 11,000 for NCCU
Eagles basketball
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Small college atmosphere campus
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Home of the 1989 Division II Basketball Champions
Durham County Stadium
2700 N Duke St
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County Stadium utilized by high school football teams, circuses,
fairs, and exhibitions
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Seats 8,000-10,000
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Steel structure with ore-cast concrete bleachers
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Parking for 2,000, press box
