Profile: Lapel Pins – 1966 European Championships, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia European designers of logos and identities for figure skating events in the mid-20th century had a clear fascination with the compulsory figure known as the loop, incorporating some version of it—usually stylized—into many an event brand. And the loop appeared again on the various 1966 European… Continue reading 1966 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Bratislava Loop II.
Category: 1960s
1963 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Different But the Same.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1963 European Championships, Budapest, Hungary Now more than 60 years ago, the best figure skaters on the European continent came together in Budapest, Hungary, for the 1963 European Figure Skating Championships, held at the outdoor Kisstadion in early February. It was the fourth time the event had been contested in the… Continue reading 1963 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Different But the Same.
1965 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Strange But Not Unusual.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1965 European Championships, Moscow, USSR Fifty-four years had elapsed since a European Figure Skating Championship had been contested on Russian soil, the first taking place in 1911 in St. Petersburg long before the USSR came into being. So when the 1965 European Figure Skating Championships came to the Soviet capital of… Continue reading 1965 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Strange But Not Unusual.
1960 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat.
Profile: Lapel Pins and a Medal from the 1960 European Championships, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Bavarian Alps, is sometimes said to be Germany's undisputed winter sports capital. In support of that claim, one has only to look at the long history of sport associated with the city, including as host of the 1936 Olympic… Continue reading 1960 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat.
1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
Profile: Lapel Pins and Participant Medal from the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships, Prague, Czechoslovakia Following the February 1961 crash of Sabena Airlines Flight #548, which killed the entire U.S. figure skating world team—plus coaches, parents, family members, and dozens of others—and the subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Prague,… Continue reading 1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.