SINCE THE DIRECTOR OF THIS PUBLIC OLYMPIC MUSEUM IS GOING TO RETIRE AFTER SERVING FOR 32 YEARS, AND THE BEST SOLUTION, SINCE NO ORGANIZATION OR GROUP HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN BUYING IT, WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR AN ORGANIZATION, A MUSEUM, OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT IS INTERESTED IN TAKING THE UNIQUE COLLECTION OVER WITH ALL THE SHOWCASES. iT IS A COMPLETE OLYMPIC COLLECTION OF OVER 20,000 ITEMS DATING FROM 1896 TO THE PRESENT AND IS A REAL BARGAIN AT THE PRICE WE ARE ASKING. IF YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION IS INTERESTED, YOU MAY CONTACT US BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. AGENTS THAT BRING A BUYER WILL GET THE FAIR COMPENSATION FOR THEIR SERVICE WHEN BRINGING A BUYER AND THE MUSEUM IS ALL PAID FOR.
International Sports Hall of Fame & Olympic Museum The Oregon Coast Sports Museum
ON THIS WEBSITE, SOCCER IS CALLED FOOTBALL, WHICH IS WHAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CALLS IT!
The museum was opened on January first 1980, over 32 years ago. It is a public museum about the Olympics with one of the largest Olympic collections worldwide
As the Director of the International Sports Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum, I wish to welcome you to the website of the International Sports Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum, located in the United States, open free to the public. The museum is facing the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast, in Depoe Bay at 110 NE Hwy 101, one hour from Salem or two hours from Portland, and can be viewed worldwide on the Internet. The four Picture Galleries contain many photos of some of our memorabilia and artifacts. There are also interesting articles and about the two Olympics I qualified and participated in 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki, and attend most of the other Winter and Summer Olympics until my last two, by being eighty five years old, ill and frail.
The Olympics started to be part of my life at age ten when in 1936 my uncle, a known Austrian sport authority, and secretary general of the Austrian Olympic Committee invited me to the 1936 Winter and Summer Olympics of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berlin and the first Torch Ceremony in Olympia, Greece, of which I have great memories I share with you. And also about qualifying for the two Olympics in 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki, and participating in the sprints as an amateur. After 1956 I traveled as visitor with COA accreditation living and marching with the team at Olympic ceremonies. I met CIO Presidents, Lord Killanin during his presidency, and President Avery Brundage during the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and we became friends until before he past away President Juan Antonio Samaranch invited me and my wife for a visit to Lausanne, and we spent a nice time with him. I met him by coincidence many years earlier when I played for River Plate against club Espanyol of Madrid in the 1940's, when General Francisco Franco came to the field to greet us with Samaranch at his side. The Olympics I remember from 1936 until 1976 were great and collecting was fun, but when the games turned commercial in 1980 and items were reproduced and fake, with one sole purpose to make money, the Olympics became ugly, since I was not used to this. Even Avery Brundage was very disappointed of the abrupt change after he left, the IOC. Although Lord Killanin fared better, but when he got ill and decided to retire after 8 years and President Samaranch took over in 1980 with new rules, and his friend Horst Dassler, the owner of Adidas amassed billions of dollars, the Olympics were not what Coubertain and the others knew as the real Olympics. There are several accounts available, that most probably are true and will open peoples eyes when they read them. Books like "DISHONORED GAMES". "THE NEW LORDS OF THE RINGS" and "THE GREAT OLYMPIC SWINDLE", which I doubt that somebody would dare writing, if it would not be true.
I started collecting Olympic artifacts at age ten when attending my first two Olympics of Winter and Summer of 1936 in Germany, which now has became a collection of about 20,000 items, dating from 1896 to the present, besides duplicate items that we are selling. I dedicate the website to my wife of 44 years, and my children and grandchildren, who actually know very little about my youth, since I was not married and they were not born for a long time when I was young and living in Buenos Aires, which includes my wife who is much younger than I am. Thank you for visiting my website. Enjoy looking at everything, and I will constantly try to improve it.
Our three email addresses: enash327@yahoo.com ( checked daily, but not a very secure email address) olynash327@hotmail.com or: ericnash327@olympicsource.org (checked weekly, and are secure addresses) (Some emails sent with Yahoo have been stolen by internet criminals, who are sending false messages to our contacts. Do not believe anything they are saying in them! They are just trying to get money from anybody!)
Our Mailing Address in Summer: P.O.Box 166, Depoe Bay, Oregon 9734
Our Mailing Address in Winter: 692 Pinnacle Court, Mesquite, Nevada 89027
Telephone: Summer 541-765-2923 or Winter: 702-346-1776 (Only one telephone will work at one time)
The International Sports Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum or ISHFOM is strictly an Olympic Sports Museum and an Educational Center open to the public. It is located on the Central Oregon Coast, where it shares 3000 foot of space with the Oregon Coast Sports Museum. It is the only one of the kind in the United States and at present is the only Summer Olympic Museum in the United States dedicated strictly to the Summer Olympics.
It features an Olympic artifact collection of over 20,000 items of the Olympics of the modern era from 1896 to the present. By being involved in the Olympics for seventy five years and attending most of the games since 1936, and witnessing the very first torch lighting ceremony in Olympia at age ten, as well as researching the history of the ancient Olympics and viewing the sites of the ancient temples, it was my wish for many years to share a part of my knowledge with the public, and establish a museum and collection of Olympic memorabilia. When Los Angeles was chosen to host the 1984 Olympics, and I saw the opportunity for an Olympic Museum arise , I decided to leave San Francisco in 1978, and looked all over the greater Los Angeles, but considering that we had two very young children, we decided to establish our family in Orange County and open a store in Disneyland, where we also were able to find adjacent space for the museum, and open the Olympic Museum in January of 1980. I became a distributor for the LAOOC and the official pin licensee Oh La La and we helped promote the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and start the first pin trading center where we sold 1984 pins and pin sets, and after the Olympics purchased the remaining pins and pin sets from the licensee, with few still on saleThe museum had an educational center that welcomed any person interested in Sports and Olympics, giving priority to guide young people in the right direction, by emphasizing the virtues of competitive sports and most importantly abstain from use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco which I never touched and which can destroy one's entire life. Being born in Austria in 1926 into a family involved in Sports and Olympics, my parents left Austria in 1937, before Hitler and his Nazis marched into Austria, which became part of the Third Reich, the absence of computers and television, which did not yet exist, and being good in Sports, which came first and natural to me while growing up in Austria and Bolivia at age 11 and Argentina after age 17 in 1943, and constantly being active in sports, I always tried to live a healthy life, learn as much as possible and after graduating from college settling into a successful and interesting sports life until it suddenly took an abrupt change because of being honored by the nation's president and accepting honorary party membership until he was ousted and the new government found my name in the Peron Party membership book and I had to leave the country via Bolivia to the USA where my parents resided and concentrate on other ways to make a living, since our football was not a paying sport in 1955 in the US. Graduated in Sports Management and Administration did not help at the time either but with my smart young wife on my side we did well, had two children and a good marriage for 44 years
The ISHFOM pays homage to the sacred Olympic Flame and its symbolic Torch Relays of ancient and modern times, with displays of Olympic Torches, Uniforms, Miners lamps used to transport the mother flame by land sea or air and other related items of torch runs from past Olympic Torch Relays. The ISHFOM has always been a sponsor and has promoted upcoming Olympics in cooperation with the Olympic Organizing Committees by arranging special exhibits of any upcoming Olympics and Torch Runs, which are attended by local and state officials and covered by the media and which we will go on doing as long as we are able. The ISHFOM honors any Gold Medal Winners from any nation worldwide that have excelled during past Olympics, by placing our commemorative plaques on the museum's "Wall of Champions" and we also display any related items to honor these very special Olympians, which will always be remembered in our Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum.
Eric Nash collected pins and Olympic memorabilia since age ten, when attending the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps and Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as most other Olympics for the last 75 years and has experienced pin trading at its best, when it was a means of true exchange based on friendship, not material gains as it has turned out to be now, more in the in the United States after 1984, as mass produced pins of no collector's value were mass produced by pin dealers that flooded the market, ruined the excitement and dedication that pin trading used to be the way I was used to in past times. Some crooked dealers, calling themselves "collectors", some of them extremely wealthy with top jobs, have taken advantage by cheating the unaware public, as it has happened in Nagano and other games before and will ever, since it is easy money. We can only hope for a return of the old standards as it used to be until the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics and mostly still is in Europe and other countries except for some NOC's that have joined with certain "collectors" for the greed to make big profits, charging exorbitant prices for pins that cost them less then one dollar. My advise at this time for worthwhile pin collecting are Media and Television pins and real NOC pins that still come from the honest countries that still consider the Olympics with the ideal they deserve and not means to make money and profits by using the Olympic Movement for it. The only other thing to be cautious about, is not to pick up fakes, which are also only made for profiteering and have absolutely no collector's value.
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