Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Photo taken in the dawn hours, as I await the arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour, now nearly 10 hours overdue. (Endeavour would not arrive for another 6 hours - and I ended up walking a mile upstream to catch it.) California Science Center, the permanent retirement home of the Endeavour, is located immediately next to the Coliseum.
The Coliseum hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice - the 10th in 1932 and the 23rd in 1984. In the 1990s, the Track & Field provisions were removed and the facility turned into a football-only park, in hopes of keeping the National Football League's Raiders in Los Angeles, though the Raiders, who had moved from Oakland in 1982, ended up returning to Oakland anyway in 1996. Today, the Coliseum primarily serves as the home stadium for University of Southern California.
I don't know the story behind the pair of headless nude statues, but they are an awesome sight. They are intended to be athletic, so the female (on the left) looks quite masculine too.