{"id":15247,"date":"2015-05-03T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:01:57","slug":"the-olympic-auditorium-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/?p=15247","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic Auditorium Project Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/?attachment_id=15248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15248\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/35dadbea-3858-4254-98b8-b6adc7814557-e1430516975703.jpg\" alt=\"35dadbea-3858-4254-98b8-b6adc7814557\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers<br \/>\nI\u2019m writing to ask you to support a documentary film that I\u2019m producing about L.A.\u2019s late great Olympic Auditorium. If you\u2019ve been to the Kim Sing Theatre, you\u2019ve seen the amazing boxing and wrestling images of Theo Ehret, house photographer for the Olympic from the 1960s through the 1980s. Over the last few years my partner Steve DeBro has spent hundreds of hours researching and developing this as a documentary and cultural history project, interviewing people like Gene LeBell, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Ed Ruscha and developing this into something special.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who remember the Olympic, the documentary will bring back to life the great characters of boxing, wrestling, roller derby and the downtown punk scene. Freddie Blassie, Andre the Giant, Jimmy Lennon, Black Flag, the L.A. T-Birds\u2014the Olympic had a reputation for great fights and wild spectacle in the ring, on stage, and in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don\u2019t remember the Olympic, you missed out. Downtown L.A. used to be weird, wild, and a lot more fun. Check out the Kickstarter page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/genpop\/the-olympic-auditorium-project\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> and give what you can.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nWillard Ford <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers I\u2019m writing to ask you to support a documentary film that I\u2019m producing about L.A.\u2019s late great Olympic Auditorium. If you\u2019ve been to the Kim Sing Theatre, you\u2019ve seen the amazing boxing and wrestling images of Theo Ehret, house photographer for the Olympic from the 1960s through the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/?p=15247\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5203,5200,5201,5199,2226,5202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15251,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions\/15251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.materialology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}