Head Ski Squaw Valley Olympics

Original vintage advertising poster for Head skis featuring a gloved hand filling out an Olympic Winter Games chart sheet with racer numbers, the pen over racer 26, next to a pair of Head skis in front of a skier racing down the slalom slope at speed watched by spectators in front of trees with flags flying in the Olympic village below and more snow covered mountains in the distance. The 1960 Winter Olympics were held in Squaw Valley (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in California from 18 to 28 February; this VIII Olympic Games was won by the Soviet Union followed by the United States of America in second place and Germany in third place; the number 26 skier was the US championship skier Tom Corcoran (1931-2017), who came fourth in this giant slalom event. The Head Ski Compay was founded in 1950 by the aeronautical engineer Howard Head (1914-1991), who invented the Head Standard that became the first commercially successful plywood, aluminium and plastic laminate skis (he later designed the aluminium framed tennis racquet / racket, first used at the 1969 US Open). Poor condition, restored tears, restored creasing, tape staining on margins, backed on linen.