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Title
First Olympic Village
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1932
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
This Olympic Village, made up of several hundred buildings, including post and telegraph offices, an amphitheater, a hospital, a fire department, and a bank, operated from July 30 until August 14, 1932. Each residence had two bedrooms, two closets, and a shower bath. For $2 per day, a male athlete had shelter and could dine at central dining rooms, where dishes from every participating nation were offered. After the games were concluded, the cabins were dismantled and sold off to individuals, who converted them into guest homes, as well as mountain cabins and beach cottages to use throughout Southern California. Female olympians were housed across town at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard.
Trucks arrive at the barren hilltop in Baldwin Hills with sections of housing, provided by E .K. Wood Lumber Co., to be constructed into Olympic cottages.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00098691
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Sports-Olympic Games-1932; N-001-219 4x5
CARL0005073508
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116392
Subject
Olympic Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)
E .K. Wood Lumber Co
Trucks--California--Los Angeles
Lumber--California--Los Angeles
Temporary housing--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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