When the Dodgers moved to L.A. after the 1957 season, they were only the second professional sports franchise to to call Los Angeles home at the time.
After winning the
1945 NFL Championship Game, the Cleveland franchise moved to Los Angeles, California, in
1946. The Rams played their home games at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (completed in 1932 for the '32 Olympics) for 33 years before moving into a reconstructed
Anaheim Stadium (home of the California Angels) in nearby
Anaheim in 1979. Oddly enough, they have returned to that same L.A. Coliseum this year for 3 years, until their new stadium is built in Inglewood, right next to the Fabulous Forum, on the site of the old
Hollywood Park race track.
The
Lakers did not arrive in L.A. from Minneapolis until
1960. They played in the brand new (completed in 1959) "
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena" , until they moved to the "
fabulous forum" in 1967.
They moved to their current home,
The Staples Center (downtown L.A.) in 1999 along with the
Los Angeles Clippers, as well as the NHL's
Los Angeles Kings. The WNBA's
Los Angeles Sparks joined in 2001.