It's An Olympic Twelvemonth : When Los Angeles Hosted The Games - 1984 & 1932



My hometown of Los Angeles hosted 2 summertime games, 52 years apart.  The 1984 games were known for their budget frugality.  Some venues were recycled from the before games...like the coliseum...and the games genuinely earned a profit, which is used to fund local sports charities.  It was also known for the "Olympic Miracle" where, due to much scaremongering, people stayed off the streets in addition to traffic was a dream for 2 weeks - form of similar what happened during "Carmageddon" concluding year.  It is also the games where much of the Communist globe stayed away inwards retaliation for the U.S boycotting the Moscow games 4 years before due to the Soviet Union's involvement inwards Afghanistan.
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 The coliseum is straightaway used for USC habitation games in addition to few other events.  Many inwards the surface area accept dreams for unopen to other NFL squad to motion inwards here, but reality states that volition never happen.  USC seems happy alongside it in addition to every straightaway in addition to and hence wrestles for full command of the facility, which is run past times a committee made upwardly of province in addition to local interests.
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 Next door is the Sports Arena, which was the venue for boxing at the 1984 games.  It is also the master copy habitation of the Lakers (when they moved to L.A.) in addition to the Clippers, both of whom accept moved on to Staples Center upwardly the street.  It's inwards pretty shabby status these days, hosting lingerie football, machine shows, in addition to other tike events.


It is scheduled to survive demolished soon.



Adjacent is the swim stadium from the 1932 games, which is nevertheless inwards purpose equally a populace pool. 



The Expo Line low-cal rail, which but opened a few months ago, goes correct past times these 3 venues. It's also the novel habitation of the infinite shuttle, Endeavour.
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 Sitting on function past times of a loma overlooking downtown Los Angeles is Dodger Stadium...now the 3rd oldest Major League Baseball stadium nevertheless inwards use...which was the site of the baseball game competition.  It is also the exclusively major baseball game stadium that I know of that is nigh completely lacking inwards populace shipping access.
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One of my favorite places inwards the surface area is Santa Anita Park racetrack inwards Arcadia where many of the equestrian events took identify inwards 1984.  Still opened upwardly in addition to nevertheless racing, crowds accept genuinely thinned out over the concluding few years equally satellite wagering has expanded.  Magna, the fellowship that owns it, has been inwards in addition to out of bankruptcy.
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 In 1932, it was the Riviera Country Club which hosted the ponies.  Today, it's host to the L.A. Open PGA Golf Tournament...now known equally the tournament that Tiger Woods dropped out of when his scandal hitting the news.
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 Other venues further out hosted unopen to to a greater extent than events inwards 1984.  The Rose Bowl inwards Pasadena hosted soccer.  Of course, it is nevertheless used every New Year's Day (except for Sundays) for the Rose Bowl game in addition to UCLA uses this equally their habitation facility for football.  It's also habitation to a really large flea marketplace each month.  It's inwards a beautiful setting inwards the middle of Brookside Park, but N of Suicide Bridge.

Lake Casitas, inwards the mountains higher upwardly Ventura in addition to nigh Ojai, provided the H2O needed for rowing in addition to canoeing.
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 Our tour ends downward inwards Anaheim, across the street from Disneyland, at the Anaheim Convention Center which was used equally the wrestling venue for the 1984 games.  For those of you lot who accept attended the Abilities Expo piece it was in Anaheim, this identify is inwards that same complex.  Dating from 1967, it is also the venue for the kickoff concerts I e'er attended...Merle Haggard for province in addition to western; Loggins in addition to Messina for stone 'n curlicue alongside Argent equally the lead-off group.



Hope you lot enjoyed this Olympic Tour in addition to volition bring together us in i lawsuit again tomorrow equally nosotros teach gear upwardly to roll upwardly Olympic Week hither at .



-Darryl

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