L.A. 84 Summer Games July 28 - August 12.

Publication date: 1983

Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Very good. Pinholing in corners with slight loss. Closed tear extending 1 inch into printed area in lower left corner professionally repaired on verso. Some creasing. Size 22.5 x 34.5 Inches. This is a 1983 David Andrade pictorial map of Los Angeles celebrating the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Andrade's map highlights event venues, cultural attractions, and businesses across Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Even with the piece's evident charm, Andrade's work was an 'unofficial' map of the Games, meaning it would not have been sold at official Olympic kiosks and venues. A Closer Look Olympic venues, such as Dodger Stadium, the Rose Bowl, the Anaheim Convention Center, and the Long Beach Convention Center immediately draw the viewer's attention as they all feature larger-than-life athletes participating in their events. The Hollywood Sign also draws the eye, along with Griffith Observatory and Disneyland. Green road signs mark L.A.'s freeways and interstates (almost all clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic). More signs mark The Valley and point the way to Palm Springs. Intermingled among the featured locations are stores, shopping malls, and restaurants. Also, not to be forgotten, L.A.'s beaches are identified by name. 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics took place in Los Angeles, California, from July 28 to August 12, 1984, and were officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad. 14 Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, boycotted the Los Angeles games in response to the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Nonetheless, 140 nations took part, a record at the time. The games included 221 events in 21 sports and took place in Los Angeles and around Southern California. Sites that hosted events included the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Dodger Stadium, and the Rose Bowl. The region's universities, including UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, California State University Los Angeles, and California State University Fullerton, also provided their facilities. The United States led the medal count, followed by Romania (the only Eastern Bloc country not to boycott the Games) and West Germany. The 1984 Games are considered the most financially successful in the modern Olympics, generating a $250 million profit due to low construction costs thanks to existing infrastructure and private corporate funding. Publication History and Census This map was 'designed and cartooned' by David Otilio Andrade and published by West Coast Ventures in 1983. This piece is not cataloged in OCLC, and we have found only a handful of instances when surviving examples have appeared on the private market.…

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Title
L.A. 84 Summer Games July 28 - August 12.
Author
1983 Andrade Pictorial Map of Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games
Publication year
1983
Seller catalogs
CALIFORNIA-MAPS

Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk.

This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map.

Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), Philip Lee Phillips Society, the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the International Map Collectors Society and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.

Geographicus also works with clients to provide map themed interior design services as well as manufacture and install collection storage and display solutions.