Eric Nash, Executive Director

The International Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates 26 years since it was opened in January of 1980 in Orange County, California, when the LAOOC was getting ready for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and if you are interested in Sports and Olympics, or collect Olympic pins and other memorabilia from Olympics of the modern era, please browse web site, look at some pictures and contact us for anything you would like to know, or obtain, relating to Olympics.

Olympic artifact collection includes over 22,000 items of all Olympic games of the modern era dating from 1896 to the present.

Brought up in a family of Austrian Olympians, my Mother a first league Football player for Austria, I was introduced to sports at a very early age and attended my first Olympics at age ten, through my dad's cousin Edgar Fried, in his youth a top Austrian Sprinter and later high Sports Official and member of the Austrian Olympic Committee since 1920 and Secretary General for 26 years. He was Chef de Mission for the Austrian Olympic team from 1946 to 1972 and President of the Austrian Decathlon and Pentathlon Federation, a holder of the IOC's "Prix de la Reconaisance Olympique" and official Austrian Representative and Supporter of the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece, from its very beginning and who also helped me considerably, by making it possible for me to attend the Torch Ceremonies and the 1936 Olympics in Olympia, Greece, Vienna, Austria and Berlin Lustgarten and finally at the Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Olympics.

Attending my first two Olympics and the four Olympic Flame Ceremonies in 1936 at age ten, as well as attending most Olympics since, collecting pins and memorabilia, my collection encompasses over 22,000 items, dating from 1896 to the present and being the distributor for the 1984 LAOOC pin licensee Ooh La La, we were able to add a complete collection of the 1984 Los Angeles and Sarajevo pins and pin sets with other 1984 memorabilia. When I decided to open the Olympic Museum to display my collection publicly, we sold the 1984 pins and pin sets in the museum as well as wholesale in gift shops throughout California and since we specialize in the 1984 Olympics and purchased all remaining pins and pin sets from the licensee after the Olympics, we are the only source left in the United States that sells original pins and pin sets from the 1984 Los Angeles and Sarajevo Olympics, which are beautiful and more valuable than any of the more recent Olympics and are by far the best value for the price.

When leases of our gift stores expired, we decided to move the museum to a property we own in Depoe Bay, on the Oregon Coast facing the Pacific Ocean, until we can find an organization involved in Sports and the Olympics, willing to sponsor the museum in a larger city, where it can be enjoyed by more people and especially our youth, the same way we have done for 26 years, since help from people that can be fully trusted, is not available in Depoe Bay. During the tourist season in summer, the museum is mostly open, although it is best to call for an appointment in order to have an hour time for a guided tour. If you have any questions, please contact us by Email or Telephone and please give us your Feedback in the provided space at the bottom of our Home Page. Thank you for visiting.

Website: www.olympicsource.org
E-mail: artifacts@olympicsource.org
Telephone: Summer: 541-765-2923 | Winter: 702-346-1776