The Lincoln Memorial Auditorium basement is now known as the Juevenile Probation Offices for the city of Worcester

When we were kids, we used to climb, fingers and toes, up the relief sculpture that you see on the walls underneath the big columns, from the side stairway, and make our way behind the columns. Behind the columns is a glass wall and one of the lower hinged glass sections was inadvertently left unlocked, so we were able to enter the room behind the glass wall. This room was unused, floor thick with dust, like no one ever went there and the opposite wall was an enormous mural, that you can see from outside, behind the columns. There was a door in the mural that opened onto the balcony, hidden behind some heavy drapes. Well, we used that secret route to sneak into all kinds of auditorium events, most notably the early Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali fights, which would be broadcast/projected live onto a movie screen. Naughty, naughty. We didn't tell anyone, either, so for all I know, the route still exists.

As a child in the 1960's, I remember stepping into this awesome building to watch the three stooges perform on stage. This is an awesome structure of a building. I am always amazed when I look at it to think that it was here before I was born and to know that it will be around for hundreds of years afterwards. It's sad that most of the structures built today are not built for longevity and beauty as the Lincoln Memorial.

Came upon this site by accident while looking for other stuff about Worcester. I often think of this marvelous building because as a youngster I watched Memorial Day parades with my Dad & Mom from the concrete walls on the South side of the building. It was a heck of a climb to get up there, but the view of the parade down in Lincoln Square was spectacular. When I watched those parades there were veterans from the First World War and some from the Civil War. World War Two was still to be thrust onto the Stage. Incidently, Lincoln Square Baptist Church is in the background on the upper left side of the picture. I went there as a child and was baptized there.

I have great memories of the auditiorium. In the 60's everyone from Bob Dylan to the Rolling Stones played there. Rumor had it the Beatles wanted $6000 to play there, and the Auditorium turned it down --- a year later the price was closer to $75,000 (a lot of money then). We knew how to get into the building before a show and would try to meet all the bands by hiding in the dressing rooms ---- what fun! I'm sure we were supposed to be studying at the library, but kids were much freer back then.

My father stated that he saw the Rolling Stones here in 1962 before they were popular.

When the Lincoln Sq. Auditorium was first opened, we had many major touring companies in performance. I first saw OKLAHOMA and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, as well as THE STUDENT PRINCE in wonderful productions there in the forties. The FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS were moved from Mechanics Hall to the new auditorium also. At the back of the auditorium, which was much easier and less steep to enter, we had THE LITTLE THEATRE where Guy Palmerton brought us summer repertory theatre. My dad was a theatre bug (which he passed on to me) and the fight promoter in town.

Back in the in the late fourties, I use to go to the Circus,the Grotto would have in January. Does anyone remember it.

I saw Prince there in the early 90's. He turned that cold stone building into one giant party. Incredible. I know the Stones and T Rex played there back in the day too.

My high school graduation was held here. In earlier years I saw Johnny Mathis perform here, and my first rock and roll concert was a spectacular with Gene Pitney, Chad and Jeremy, The McCoys, The Outsiders, B. J. Thomas, and others. The highlight of my childhood was seeing the Three Stooges live on stage at the Alethia Grotto Charity Circus show one year (1965?). Rex Trailer of Boston TV hosted it another year - he came out on stage on his horse. My dad used to take me to see Holy Cross basketball games. Later I took a date to see a Crusaders game against UMASS. They had a great player called Julius Erving. We left a minute early to beat the crowd, and just as we entered the lower hall the game ended and we came face to face with the future Doctor J. as the team headed for their locker room. I never saw the Stones there. Remember when they played Sir Morgan's Cove in the 70s?