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Old Posted Aug 12, 2020, 6:11 PM
Martin Pal Martin Pal is offline
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Originally Posted by riichkay View Post
Re: e_r's post of downtown decorated for the '32 games, here's a shot of 7th and Hill that I don't think we have seen....from the Adelbert Bartlett papers at UCLA.....
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Thanks for posting this photo, riichkay, love it, and also for deciphering the marquee...I had started trying to do it myself until I realized you had already done it!

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Originally Posted by ScottyB View Post
Recently finished an interesting book about that very subject. Billy Garland pulled off a fairly audacious feat in bringing the Olympics to Los Angeles during the Great Depression.


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Thanks for posting about this book, Scotty B. I see that it was just released last October 29th! I hadn't heard of it. Are there any photographs in the book?

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