Preparations made for participants and visitors to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Aerial view of a large passenger aircraft in flight. Congested highway traffic scenes: Aerial view of automobile, truck, and bus traffic on 101 freeway east of downtown Los Angeles. Skyscrapers of Los Angeles. A crowded sidewalk. Cars parked in a parking lot. The stewardess or flight attendant announces to people aboard a passenger aircraft. Sketches of the famous personalities of Los Angeles. A trailer truck being driven off in the foreground. Traffic on fly overs and overpass bridges. Houses in the city. Palm trees on a beach area. Cars parked in front of shops. People at a marketplace. A teenage boy dancing in a toprock breakdancing style. People watch the boy perform his break dance. People dance wearing skates. A woman dances. A man plays piano in an open ocean front market. A man performs a stunt and weightlifters workout lifting heavy weights at Venice Beach. Boys play racket sports. People ride bicycles and skate on a beach. An aircraft in flight and the airplane preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport. People gathered at the 1932 Olympics watching runners leap hurdles in a race. Seats in stadium at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Entrance of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037). Views of the Santa Anita Racetrack facility (285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States). A man plays a bugle on the racetrack at the start of an event. People in the stadium watch the horse race. Exteriors of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A sign for "UCLA".
Inaugural celebrations on Los Angeles' 150th birthday in Los Angeles, California. Parade event on city streets opens with the 'Epic of Transportation' depicting history of travel from primitive to modern times. Procession starts with a man on horseback drawing a primitive carriage with two children sitting on it. A buffalo cart. A carriage drawn by a mule team. Depiction of train and aircraft during the procession.
Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.
A beach in California. Cars moving on highway - 101 Camino Real. Old Mission buildings and monuments in San Diego, California. Monks moving about one of the missions. A monk feeds white pigeons. Adobe home of General Jose Castro before restoration, at San Juan Batista. View in Los Angeles of Avila Adobe - Stockton's American headquarters during the Mexican-American war. People visiting the museum. La Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, also known as Ramona's Marriage Place after the reference in the popular Helen Hunt Jackson novel. A Mexican musician plays guitar outside the house. Agua Caliente resort in Mexico, over the border. Restaurant there with dancers and a band. Olvera Street market in Los Angeles for Mexican arts and crafts. A man and two women make Mexican foods.
Preparation for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The opening scene is a flashback of footage from the 1932 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A group of men play long horn bugles. Olympic competitors walking on stadium track during opening or closing ceremony of the 1932 Olympics. Scene changes to modern day 1983 views of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA). The entrance door reads 'Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum'. A truck picks up cylindrical containers from the grounds. The truck spreads red paint on the floor and the workers work by the side. Red stone gravels. A worker sprays water on the ground. A stone fence reads 'University of Southern California'. Men stand near an Olympic swimming pool. A crane digs mud. Men work at the construction site.
Views of the Century Plaza Towers buildings (Century Plaza Towers, 2029 Century Park E suite 400 n, Los Angeles, CA 90067, United States) in Century City, California, near Los Angeles. Views of the buildings from different angles. Next scene is a wide shot of buildings along Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, including the Union Bank Plaza building (445 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California) in the Bunker Hill area, and the Westin Bonaventure Hotel (404 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90071, United States). A few vehicles are seen on a road beside the buildings.
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