Flashlight used during the Closing Ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, California
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: associated institution
content: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee
label: maker
content: Eveready
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Small red plastic flashlight with cylyndrical stem and wider cylindrical bowl containing a small battery operated light bulb. Adjustable red, clear, and blue plastic rectangular slide with bent side-tab which covers the light bowl. This was used during the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles, California. Attached is white paper sheet with instructions in Spanish, Japanese, French, and English printed in purple ink. In white plastic bag with white hard plastic snap handles, Olympic logo "Welcome to Closing Ceremonies" and instructions on back in four languages printed in pink, turquoise, and gold with L.A. Olympic logo.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries, 5,263 men and 1,566 women athletes participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Los Angeles, 1984
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (through Carol Daniels)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0297.13
label: accession number
content: 1985.0297
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0297.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flashlight
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 605 in x 2 in; 1536.7 cm x 5.08 cm