This delightful souvenir map centers on the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California, now known as Olympic Valley. The 6,000 acres of the host resort are enlarged to better show the Olympic Village, slopes, courses, and facilities. The map extends into the surrounding regions, showing Placerville, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Lake Tahoe, Reno, and Carson City. The landscape's roads, lakes, rivers, and peaks are graphically depicted, and the map is teeming with charming illustrations of skiers, resort-goers, prospectors, cowboys, painters, fishermen, bucks, cattle, and much more. Credited to Don Bloodgood and prepared and published by Shell Oil Company. The Shell logo appears on the decorative compass rose. The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first to be televised. This is the only pictorial map of the event available on the contemporary market. Folds into a pamphlet with tinted photographs of various sites of interest in the area on verso.

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A clean and colorful example with a small wormhole below the title cartouche.