Bringing the Olympics Back to Los Angeles
Bringing the Olympics Back to Los Angeles

Author: Ann Owens

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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"Bringing the Olympics back to Los Angeles: a history of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games 1984 to 2014" provides an account of the journey to help secure the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games beginning decades ago, following the success of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Chronicled by Ann Owens, associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, and Barry A. Sanders, former chairman of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, "Bringing the Olympics back to Los Angeles" shares a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the time, talent and perseverance required to prepare a bid and maintain public support to be positioned to win the long game of Olympic bidding.

Dreamers and Schemers
Dreamers and Schemers

Author: Barry Siegel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520379713

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How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.