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The Long Beach Pyramid
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90840
Opened: November 30, 1994
Closed: March 5, 2005
Originally known as the Long Beach Pyramid, now called The Walter Pyramid, is a 4,000 seat, indoor multi-purpose arena on the campus of Long Beach State University in Long Beach, California. The Walter Pyramid was officially opened on November 30, 1994, when it hosted a Long Beach State men's basketball game against the Detroit Titans, which aired live on ESPN. A standing-room only crowd of 5,021 saw Long Beach come away victorious with a final score of 71-64. The Walter Pyramid rises 18 stories above the Long Beach skyline and its exterior is uniformly clad in sheets of dark-blue corrugated aluminum.

The Walter Pyramid was designed by Don Gibbs and built by the Nielson Construction Company of San Diego. The building of Walter Pyramid cost approximately $22 million. Each side of the perimeter of Walter Pyramid measures 345 feet (105 m), making it a mathematically true pyramid. It is one of only four true pyramid-style buildings in the United States, the others being the Summum Pyramid in Salt Lake City, Utah, Luxor Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Walter Pyramid is currently home to the Long Beach State Beach men's basketball and Long Beach State Beach women's basketball programs, as well as the Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball and Long Beach State Beach women's volleyball programs. All LBSU teams playing home games in the Walter Pyramid are nicknamed “the Beach”. The teams were previously known as the 49ers but that nickname was recently dropped. Prior to the construction of the Walter Pyramid on campus, the men's basketball team played some of their games in the Long Beach Arena in downtown Long Beach, and at the on-campus University Gymnasium later renamed Gold Mine, which has just 1,900 seats.

In addition to being the home for Long Beach State athletics, the Walter Pyramid as hosted several NCAA-sponsored events including numerous women’s volleyball NCAA matches, the 2001 and 2003 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships and the 2003 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Regionals.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Mar 5, 2005UC Santa Barbara @ Long Beach State 57 - 58
Mar 3, 2005Cal Poly @ Long Beach State 71 - 52
Feb 21, 2005UC Davis @ Long Beach State 73 - 77
Feb 17, 2005UC Irvine @ Long Beach State 50 - 55
Feb 12, 2005CSU Fullerton @ Long Beach State 66 - 63
Feb 10, 2005Long Beach State @ UC Riverside 58 - 56
Jan 29, 2005Utah State @ Long Beach State 44 - 75
Jan 27, 2005Idaho @ Long Beach State 53 - 52
Jan 8, 2005CSU Northridge @ Long Beach State 69 - 53
Jan 6, 2005Pacific @ Long Beach State 60 - 68