Head Ski Squaw Valley Olympics
Original vintage advertising poster for Head skis, featuring a design by Wolfgang Lert depicting a gloved hand filling out an Olympic Winter Games chart sheet next to Head skis reflecting pine trees on their surface, with skiers going down the slope. The 1960 Winter Olympics, held in Squaw Valley (now known as Palisades Tahoe), California, from February 18 to 28, 1960, marked the first time the Winter Games were hosted in the United States outside of Lake Placid. Head was founded in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, by aeronautical engineer Howard Head (1914-1991), who is credited with the invention of the first commercially successful aluminium laminate skis and the oversized tennis racket. Poor condition, restored tears, restored creasing, tape staining on margins, backed on linen.
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