In this photo, we’re looking along Seventh Street in downtown Los Angeles, which was decorated to celebrate the 10^th Summer Olympic Games in 1932. Turns out, L.A. got them by default because no other city bid for them—everyone else was dealing with surviving the Great Depression. Maybe L.A. could afford because it at least had the movies to keep it going. Whatever the reason, they opened at the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum even though far fewer countries could afford to send a team. Los Angeles could, however, afford to build the very first Olympic Village. In fact, it build two: men were housed in Baldwin Hills while women athletes were housed at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles Olympic Stadium on the opening day of the Games of the Xth Olympiad: