Big Bend Jai Alai’s last season took place in 1990 after the state gave permission to begin the conversion of the facility into a greyhound racing track. The plan eventually fell through. Many more plans would follow that would also fail, most recently converting the building into a casino....
The Jai Alai building had seen many uses through its lifetime. The Jai Alai palace was the only major structure in Manila to stand up under both the Japanese and American bombings. It was constructed so strongly and served so well as a shelter during air raids that it was used by the t...