WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:00.001 --> 00:00:04.001 You are about to see the highlights of Detroit's winning presentation given this 00:00:04.001 --> 00:00:08.001 spring in the city in pursuit of the 1968 Olympic Games. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.000 This record consists of a selection of approximately 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:13.001 half of Detroit's presentations. 00:00:14.001 --> 00:00:18.001 The voices you hear are addressing the United States Olympic Games. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.001 At this meeting, Detroit was selected to be the host city to present the United 00:00:23.001 --> 00:00:27.000 States in the international competition, which determines the size 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.000 of the games in 1968. 00:01:01.001 --> 00:01:04.001 You have heard the Detroit story before. 00:01:05.001 --> 00:01:07.000 Most of you have heard it once. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.001 Today, we're going to introduce you to a Detroit you've never met before. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:17.000 A Detroit whose boundaries lie far from the southeastern corner of Michigan. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 A Detroit whose citizens includes tens of millions of Americans. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:32.000 A Detroit whose riches, resources, and productive energies total far more than 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.001 any company that has ever hosted an Olympia. 00:01:35.001 --> 00:01:40.001 If we were to design a special flag to symbolize the capability of Detroit USA to 00:01:40.001 --> 00:01:46.001 host the 1968 Olympics, we might take as our inspiration five interlocking 00:01:46.001 --> 00:01:49.001 circles denoting international brotherhood. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.001 Our Detroit flag might be composed of intermeshing gear wheels. 00:01:54.001 --> 00:02:00.001 We would label one talent, another experience, another resources, 00:02:01.001 --> 00:02:06.000 still another, responsibility, and the last enthusiasm. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:13.000 Two of the foremost leaders of Detroit USA are here to tell you how we plan to 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.000 build these qualities into the most effective piece of community effort machinery 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.000 the world has ever seen. 00:02:20.001 --> 00:02:22.001 What do these five gears add up to? 00:02:23.001 --> 00:02:26.001 The ancient things had a word for it, dynamic. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.000 This single word sums up better than any other what Detroit can mean to America 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.001 and to the world in 1968. 00:02:36.001 --> 00:02:40.001 If you've heard the word dynamic used in the same breath with Detroit, 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.001 no accident of alliteration. 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:48.001 For dynamics is exactly what we have in greater supply in Detroit USA than 00:02:48.001 --> 00:02:50.000 anywhere else in the world. 00:02:51.001 --> 00:02:56.001 Detroit has set these wheels in motion many times before to get big jobs done 00:02:56.001 --> 00:02:58.001 with unqualified success. 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:04.000 From this record comes confidence and ability to win the Olympic Games for 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.000 America in 1960. 00:03:07.001 --> 00:03:10.001 As we reveal the story of these five interm when 00:03:10.001 --> 00:03:15.000 they 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.001 roll their sleeves to do a job and do it well. 00:03:22.001 --> 00:03:27.001 We've made up our Italian, Scandinavian, Polish, Irish, Canadian, American about 00:03:27.001 --> 00:03:33.001 this and the record proves that no other region, world's economy, and no other 00:03:33.001 --> 00:03:39.001 assemblage of world's leadership can do a better job on the 1968 Olympiad than 00:03:39.001 --> 00:03:41.000 Detroit USA. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.000 I'm Jerome P. Cavanaugh, Mayor of Detroit. 00:03:48.001 --> 00:03:51.001 It's a great pleasure to be here today before the 00:03:51.001 --> 00:03:53.000 United States Olympic Committee. 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.000 Today we're going to show you from every vantage point 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.000 the Detroit you've never met. 00:03:59.001 --> 00:04:04.001 The great sports enthusiasm of Detroit citizens and their neighbors is apparent 00:04:04.001 --> 00:04:09.000 in many splendid facilities presently available for all types of sports events 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:14.001 and all are actually within 10 miles of the city center, the Olympic Village 00:04:14.001 --> 00:04:16.001 and the Olympic Stadium site. 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:21.000 Now let's take a look at some of the existing and some of the brand new 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.000 facilities within this 10 mile radius. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.000 The proposed stadium site, the focal point of the Olympic Games will fulfill all 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:33.000 technical specifications required for Olympic events and ceremonies. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.001 It will have a seating capacity of 110,000. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.001 Parking facilities for 20,000 vehicles are provided. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.001 Various other buildings on the site include the present College and Marina 00:04:46.001 --> 00:04:48.001 and the administrative building. 00:04:49.001 --> 00:04:54.000 Close by will be the brand new velodrome for cycling events with a one 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.001 mile bank track. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:01.001 Its permanent seating capacity is 4,000, but for the Olympic events this will be 00:05:01.001 --> 00:05:04.001 expanded to a capacity for 10,000 spectators. 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:10.001 And typical of these more than modern facilities at the stadium complex is the 00:05:10.001 --> 00:05:15.000 possibility of this proposed monorail planned to serve the stadium directly. 00:05:16.001 --> 00:05:19.001 Ten minutes away is the University of Detroit Field House. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.001 The 9,000 seat memorial building arena is ideal for many indoor activities. 00:05:26.001 --> 00:05:31.001 The U of D stadium seating 21,000 is equipped for day or night events. 00:05:31.001 --> 00:05:36.001 Another excellent facility is our 16,000 seat Olympia Stadium. 00:05:37.001 --> 00:05:42.000 The home of Detroit hockey activities, superbly equipped and centrally located. 00:05:42.001 --> 00:05:46.000 It is ideal for such indoor events as gymnastics, 00:05:46.001 --> 00:05:48.000 boxing, wrestling and basketball. 00:05:49.001 --> 00:05:55.000 Broadhead Armory with a seating capacity of 4,000 is a well equipped and athletic 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.001 plant, specially suited for fencing and weightlifting. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.000 In addition, the Light Guard Armory offers 32,000 square feet of floor space. 00:06:05.001 --> 00:06:08.001 Detroit is ideally located for aquatic events. 00:06:09.001 --> 00:06:14.000 Here is the proposed expansion and redevelopment of our Brennan Pool facilities, 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.000 one of the finest Olympic sized swimming and diving pools in America. 00:06:19.001 --> 00:06:23.001 The Detroit River, sheltered between the city and the Canadian shorelines, 00:06:23.001 --> 00:06:28.000 provides splendid water facilities for all boating and yachting events. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.001 With plenty of room for spectators on both banks. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:38.001 Belle Isle is a unique 1,000 acre park that abounds in spacious athletic fields 00:06:38.001 --> 00:06:42.000 an ideal road system for cycling and ample parking. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.000 Here too will be the world's first and finest artificial rowing course. 00:06:47.001 --> 00:06:51.001 One and one quarter miles long, 300 feet wide, designed to 00:06:51.001 --> 00:06:53.000 meet every Olympic requirement. 00:06:53.001 --> 00:06:56.001 There will be no other course like it in the world. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.001 The University Village complex, now in the advanced planning stage, will house 00:07:02.001 --> 00:07:07.001 both participants and guests on a 304 acre site, which is part of the 00:07:07.001 --> 00:07:09.000 Wayne State University campus. 00:07:09.001 --> 00:07:13.000 It will be known as Olympic Village during the course of the games. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.000 Temporary residents will dine in modern efficient dining rooms. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.000 After dinner they may shop or enjoy a wide choice of recreational facilities. 00:07:24.001 --> 00:07:27.000 Olympic Village is now being planned for both permanent 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.000 student and faculty housing. 00:07:29.001 --> 00:07:34.001 By the summer of 1968, it will be the most modern and well-serviced facility 00:07:34.001 --> 00:07:36.001 of its kind anywhere in the world. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.001 This is typical of Detroit's concern for the housing and hosting of not only 00:07:41.001 --> 00:07:46.001 participants and guests, but the tremendous influx of ethnic groups that will 00:07:46.001 --> 00:07:50.001 find the many, many homes of Detroit's own ethnic groups waiting for them 00:07:50.001 --> 00:07:52.000 with the open door of hospitality. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.000 Detroit's new Civic Center is recognized the world over as 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.000 one of the largest and finest. 00:07:59.001 --> 00:08:03.001 The convention hall and exhibits building includes a floor area of over 00:08:03.001 --> 00:08:05.001 400,000 square feet. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.001 The arena type auditorium seats 12,000 people. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.001 All of these facilities, as well as those for archery, shooting, and equestrian 00:08:15.001 --> 00:08:19.000 activity, are already in existence or in the very advanced stages. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.000 An absolute assurance can be given that to the extent not presently available, 00:08:24.001 --> 00:08:27.000 these facilities can and will be provided. 00:08:28.001 --> 00:08:33.000 People coming to the games here in America's Heartland will find plenty of places 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:39.001 to stay. 45,000 comfortable motel and hotel rooms are within one hour's drive. 00:08:40.001 --> 00:08:45.001 Now I want to establish firmly the financial responsibility and capacity of 00:08:45.001 --> 00:08:51.000 Detroit, USA, to make the 1968 Olympics an outstanding success. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.001 First, let's look at the fiscal soundness of Detroit, as demonstrated by the 00:08:56.001 --> 00:09:02.001 budget for 1962-63, a budget well over $350 million. 00:09:03.001 --> 00:09:08.001 We're proud to say that this budget has been balanced realistically and is based 00:09:08.001 --> 00:09:11.001 on conservative estimates of revenue from all sources. 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.000 Detroit has never been so financially healthy. 00:09:16.001 --> 00:09:21.001 As for industrial worth, the true industrial value of the six-county area we call 00:09:21.001 --> 00:09:25.000 Metropolitan Detroit is reckoned in the billions. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.000 Especially dramatic is the city of Detroit's municipal development. 00:09:30.001 --> 00:09:37.001 Since 1952 and planned for by 1967, Detroit's taxpayers have put 00:09:37.001 --> 00:09:41.001 well over a billion and a quarter dollars in capital improvements. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:48.000 As for commerce, Detroit, because of the St. Lawrence Seaway, now handles a 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.000 greater number of imports and exports than any other port of entry in the entire 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.001 United States except New York City. 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.000 Retail sales in Metropolitan Detroit total over $5 billion. 00:10:02.001 --> 00:10:08.000 Today, Detroit produces more wealth per capita than any other city in the United 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:14.001 States. 71% of Detroiters own their own homes, a record among the 00:10:14.001 --> 00:10:16.000 nation's population centers. 00:10:16.001 --> 00:10:20.001 We are a fiscally stable Olympic-minded community. 00:10:21.001 --> 00:10:25.001 I believe that we have convincingly portrayed our ability, our 00:10:25.001 --> 00:10:27.000 facilities, and our determination. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.001 The basic purpose, as we understand it, in staging an Olympiad is to light the 00:10:33.001 --> 00:10:36.000 Olympic torch in all parts of the world. 00:10:36.001 --> 00:10:42.000 We have graphically demonstrated that Detroit, our city, is centrally located for 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.000 over 90 million people in the United States. 00:10:45.001 --> 00:10:48.001 Everyone in our area supports the Olympic bid. 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:54.000 The service clubs, the high schools, the college students, the leadership and 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.000 membership of the great international labor unions that are headquartered in our 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:04.000 city, businessmen, educators, city councils in Michigan and surrounding areas, 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.001 mayors in most of the major Midwestern cities. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:12.001 What I'm saying in effect is that the men, women, the children of all the races 00:11:12.001 --> 00:11:17.000 and all the diverse national origin groups have voiced their 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.001 support for Detroit's efforts. 00:11:19.001 --> 00:11:24.001 Now let's get down to our program for financing the 1968 Olympic Games. 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:30.001 Most of the facilities, as mentioned earlier, are already in existence, I might 00:11:30.001 --> 00:11:32.000 add standing and paid for. 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.001 We are concerned here with the financing and construction of two major projects. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:43.001 First, Olympic Village. The city of Detroit, along with Wayne State University, 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:48.001 is already committed to the fulfillment of this city within a city, which will be 00:11:48.001 --> 00:11:52.000 a dynamic part of the Wayne State University campus. 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:58.001 Second, the new stadium. In Detroit's quest for the 1968 Olympics, the Michigan 00:11:58.001 --> 00:12:01.001 legislature has established a public authority to 00:12:01.001 --> 00:12:03.001 finance and operate this stadium. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.001 And now to tell you about this legislation, it gives me great pleasure to present 00:12:09.001 --> 00:12:14.000 the Honorable George Romney, Governor of the State of Michigan. Governor? 00:12:15.001 --> 00:12:20.000 Thank you, Mayor Cavanaugh. Our state legislature has taken 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.001 almost unanimous action. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:27.000 It's passed three measures. First is Act No. 1218, creating a state recreation 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:32.001 and building authority to issue bonds and build a stadium. Second, while we only 00:12:32.001 --> 00:12:37.001 need a million 360,000 to pay the principal and interest on this stadium, the 00:12:37.001 --> 00:12:43.001 second act, No. 1219, provides a million 600,000 of additional revenue annually. 00:12:44.001 --> 00:12:48.001 It might surprise some of you to know that this year Michigan will have a surplus 00:12:48.001 --> 00:12:52.001 of $34 million, and we'll have a surplus next year. 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:58.000 The stadium bonds will be paid for from the state's general revenue. 00:12:59.001 --> 00:13:04.001 Third, the legislature, by concurrent resolution, has created a joint House 00:13:04.001 --> 00:13:09.000 -Senate committee to make sure that the legislature does the additional necessary 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.000 things to bring the Olympiad to Detroit. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.001 These actions show that Michigan means business. 00:13:15.001 --> 00:13:20.000 When the question was raised about Detroit's ability to finance the games, the 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:25.000 whole state rallied spontaneously to support this financing program. 00:13:25.001 --> 00:13:29.001 I know of no major legislation that has ever gone through the Michigan 00:13:29.001 --> 00:13:32.000 legislature as rapidly as this. 00:13:32.001 --> 00:13:38.000 And this is so that we could present a firm and adequate program, so that we can 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:44.001 be sure that the 1968 Olympiad will be held not in a 1932 model stadium, 00:13:44.001 --> 00:13:47.001 but in a 1968 model. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.000 Thank you very much.