Track patch worn by Bob Wobbrock at Gardena High School, Los Angeles, California
date: label: date made
content: 1954
name: label: user
content: Wobbrock, Bob
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert Wobbrock attended Gardena High School in California from 1953 to 1956. A typical kid of the fifties, he lettered in football and track. He received this letter during his sophomore year hence the one winged foot representing track and the one star embroidered on the letter. For each year someone lettered in a varsity sport they would receive a letter with the year indicated in the amount of “athletic symbols or stars” embroidered on the letter. This practiced changed sometime during the 1970s and the athlete was given one letter throughout their high school career and given a gold bar for each subsequent year.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: track
label: level of sport
content: High School
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert R. Wobbrock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0242.08.1
label: accession number
content: 2006.0242
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0242.08.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Academic Letter
label: Object Name
content: letter
label: Object Name
content: patch, track
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 18 cm x .2 cm; 7 7/8 in x 7 3/32 in x 3/32 in