Title supplied by cataloger. Exposition Park, originally named Agricultural Park, was developed in 1876 as a showground for agricultural and horticultural fairs. In the 1890s USC law professor William M. Bowen and USC President George Finley Bovard garnered the commitments of city, state, and county to develop the land as a public educational, cultural and recreational center to be designed by architects Hudson and Munsell. Architects John and Donald B. Parkinson designed the 1923 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, located at 3911 S. Figueroa Street, as well as the expansion for the 1932 Olympic Games. In 1984, the Coliseum became the first stadium in the world to host the Olympic games twice. The stadium is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is California Historic Landmark #960 View of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1932 Olympic games. The sign reads, 'The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning, but taking part. The essential thing is not conquering but fighting well. - De Coubertin.' The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is located at 3911 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90037. Photograph dated 1932.
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1 negative : safety ; 25 x 20 cm. Photographic safety negatives
Olympic Games--(10th :--1932 :--Los Angeles, Calif.) Art deco (Architecture) Stadiums Arches Spectators Crowds Olympics Flagpoles Flags Banners Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) Parkinson, John,--1861-1935 Parkinson, Donald B.--(Donald Berthold),--1895-1945
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