VINTAGE 1932 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS LICENCE PLATE TOPPER

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VINTAGE 1932 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS LICENCE PLATE TOPPER
The year is 1932, and despite being in the midst of the Great Depression, a dusty, distant little boom town named Los Angeles is about to host what will turn out to be the most successful sporting event in human history; The Games of the Xth Summer Olympiad. These games will feature the most attended event in the world, in the largest venue in the world, all while being watched
by the eyes
of the world! Only after overcoming nearly impossible odds to produce them, WILLIAM MAY GARLAND, President of the Summer Olympic Games, will at long last achieve his dream of establishing the model for the Olympic games we know today! Still “unconfirmed” only weeks before opening ceremonies, the ’32 Games will make history! One dignitary will exclaim “
L.A.
has built the finest sporting facilities we have ever seen!”, including a stadium capable of holding over 100,000 fans. It is the first time an Olympic Village will be constructed. A massive and meticulous task, nothing like it has ever been attempted before. 250 acres of prime hilltop ranchland is donated by
Hollywood
’s elite. Over sixty buildings will house the male athletes, even providing a chef to each country to cook “home style” meals so competitors can continue their usual diets.
While there will be fewer athletes representing nations than at previous games, the venues will be packed with record attendance, these games will prove to be the only Olympics to turn a financial profit until the 1984 games, also held in Los Angeles. The Xth Olympiad is the first to utilize photo finish timing, a multilevel victory podium, and even the popular tradition of “pin trading” begins here, no doubt as a result of “commercial” sponsorship. And if that weren’t enough, for the first time, “American” football will be played, as a demonstration sport
The games will feature future American movies stars like Tarzan’s Buster Crabbe compete, as well as track stars like Babe Didrikson, considered the best female athlete of the 20
th
century. Rivalries and scandal will tarnish one men’s track event, and despite having the world’s largest population, the team from
China
, sends but one lone athlete, as a protest to Japan’s Imperialistic aggression. There is great international tension in this time between the two World Wars.