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This collection consists of realia and ephemera from the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, both having taken place in Los Angeles, California.

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Administrative records, promotional material, a photograph, clippings, T-shirts and videocassettes from the Los Angeles branch of the California AIDS Ride, 1993-2000, collected by Jeffery Masino, former director of the Los Angeles office. Materials in the collection document the planning and implementation of the state-wide bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raised funds and created awareness of HIV/AIDS.

Abstract A collection of five board games, nine cans of "smog," two buttons and a t-shirt relating to the 1984 Summer Olympics, a Southern California "powdered smog" postcard, a dish towel, a bumper sticker, and a button relating to the fruit fly (Medfly) crisis in California during the early 1980s collected by journalist, author, and radio and television personality Patt Morrison. Most of the items in the collection relate to Los Angeles smog and air pollution, but a few of the items relate to the...

Abstract The Keith Royer collection on Southern California scootering and youth subculture documents several decades of vintage scooter culture and the diverse aspects of the subculture as it relates to music, fashion, politics, and youth communities. Keith Royer has been a scooter rider, collector, and bike mechanic since the mid-1980s and a patched club member of the Pharaohs Scooter Club of San Diego since 1995. The Pharaohs Scooter Cult was formed on December 23, 1993 at Hill Street Coffee House...