The West Wing

[Jeffles]

Did anybody catch last night's episodes on ABC? It was the Season 6 finale featuring the Democratic National Convention. I want to know what arena it was held in. All I can find is that the exterior shots were of the HP Pavilion in San Jose but the interior looks different to the interior of that arena.

Appreciate any help you can give me.

[britishspud]

did'nt they use shots from the real democratic convention?? i'm sure the 2004 convention was in boston..

[Jeffles]

did'nt they use shots from the real democratic convention?? i'm sure the 2004 convention was in boston..

These weren't borrowed crowd scenes. They had the actors in the foreground and the arena in the background. To be sure I hada look at the TD Bank North Garden and it's not it.

The reason I am interested is because the arena looked very much like Acer Arena. Red seats, a similar structure and the ratio of seats in each level was close to accurate. The only thing different was that the main concourse was more open towards the bowl compared to Acer where they use doors.

[Simmo79]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Pavilion

[Jeffles]

Thanks Simmo. This article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2162_Votes says only exterior shots were used.

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pi ... lion.shtml

The interior of HP Pavilion confirms that it was not used in the episode. It has black and grey seats, no substantial mid-tier of seats and there are additional suites at the top.

[Simmo79]

d'oheth

try this one

http://www.seats3d.com/nhl/anaheim_ducks/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Center

in all likelihood it was gonna be one of the LA arenas

[Jeffles]

That's the one. Thanks Simmo.