Impressive, visually appealing collection of 20 pieces of ephemera from the Los Angeles 1932 Summer Olympics, including assorted programs, booklets, city pocket guides, menus, and magazines. Includes: an attractive "Olympic Games" brochure with full-color covers; a Los Angeles Times pocket program; small general program by Goodrich Silvertown, Inc.; an "Olympic Games Dope Book" pocket guide published by Hastings; a "Visitor's Guide to Los Angeles and the Olympic Games 1932" published by the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express; a "Gilmore Vest Pocket Manual of the Olympic Games"; an "Olympias Souvenir Edition" of Three Minutes, the monthly magazine of the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House; Spalding's Athletic Almanac for the 1932 Olympic Games; an official "Information for Official Olympic Groups and Press" booklet issued by the Organizing Committee; two Olympic Stadium daily programs, for July 31 and August 10; a "Schedule of Events and Official Records" brochure; a "Xth Olympiad Amusement Guide"; an "International Olympic Ball" program; a handsome "Xth Olympiad" Biltmore Hotel dinner and reception program; an "Olympic Games Official Pictorial Souvenir" prepared and issued by the Organizing Committee; issues of The Elks and Life Magazine from July 1932, with Olympic cover artwork; a program for the "World's Greatest Motion-Picture Electrical Pageant" hosted at the Olympic Stadium in September 1932; a Herbert's restaurant menu with Olympic graphics on the front; and a "United States Olympic Association Quadrennial Dinner," hosted in Washington, DC, on December 4, 1961. In overall fine condition.
