When it first opened for business in 1967, the House that Cazzie Built was state of the art. And despite being opened forty years earlier, we have stacks of photos of the Michigan Stadium construction but seemingly very few of the to-be basketball arena.
On eBay right now, here’s one from October 1967 of coach Dave Strack and Rudy Tomjanovich checking out the new digs as the finishing touches were being applied (see above).