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VCR technology became available in the 1970s, making it easier to record and erase information, and the use of video surveillance became more common. Closed circuit television was used as a form of pay per view theatre television for sports such as professional boxing and professional wrestling, and from 1964 through 1970, the Indianapolis 500 automobile race. Boxing telecasts were broadcast live to a select number of venues, mostly theaters, where viewers paid for tickets to watch the fight live. The first fight with a closed circuit telecast was Joe Louis vs. Joe Walcott in 1948. Closed circuit telecasts peaked in popularity with Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and 1970s, with "The Rumble in the Jungle" fight drawing 50 million CCTV viewers worldwide in 1974, and the "Thrilla in Manila" drawing 100 million CCTV viewers worldwide in 1975. In 1985, the WrestleMania I professional wrestling show was seen by over one million viewers with this scheme. As late as 1996, the Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya boxing fight had 750,000 viewers. Closed circuit television was gradually replaced by pay per view home cable television in the 1980s and 1990s. In September 1968, Olean, New York was the first city in the United States to install video cameras along its main business street in an effort to fight crime.