>>GERRY: HELLO AND WELCOME TOINSIDE INDIANA BUSINESS.I'M GERRY DICK.30 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK,
INDIANAPOLIS WAS ON A GLOBALSTAGE HOSTING THE SECOND-LARGESTMULTI-SPORT EVENT IN THE WORLD.THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES, AT THE
TIME SECOND ONLY TO THE OLYMPICSIN TERM OF SIZE, FEATURED MORETHAN 4,000 ATHLETES FROM 38COUNTRIES AND TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF FANS, CELEBRITIES ANDJOURNALISTS.SOME DESCRIBED IT ASINDIANAPOLIS' COMING OUT
PARTY... AND IT WAS AN ENORMOUSUNDERTAKING FOR OUR CITY.TED BOEHM WAS CHAIRMAN AND CEOOF THE 1987 PAN AM GAMES
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.HE JOINS ME NOW TO REFLECT ONTHAT EVENT AND ITS IMPACT...ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.>> GREAT TO BE HERE.>> LOOKING BACK AND TO PUT ITIN PERSPECTIVE FOR THOSE WHO
WERE NOT THERE OR WERE NOTPARTICULARLY FILM ARE --FAMILIAR WITH THIS HOWSIGNIFICANT WAS IT TO HOST THE
PAN-AMERICAN GAMES?>> YOU SAID IT IT WAS A COMINGOUT PARTY.IT WAS A WAY FOR US TO SHOWCASE
INDIANAPOLIS AND THE GREAT JOBWE DO HOSTING EVENTS TO ANINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE.IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE REACHED
OUTSIDE THE BORDERS OF THEUNITED STATES AND IT REALLY LAIDTHE FOUNDATION FOR ALL SORTS OFEVENTS TO COME TO INDIANAPOLIS
IN LATER YEARS.>> THE AMAZING THING,INDIANAPOLIS IN THE ENSUINGYEARS DOES A GREAT JOB HOSTING
THESE EVENTS BUT THESE WERE PUTON IN HALF THE TIME THAT ATYPICAL COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE TOHOST THE PEN AND GAMES.
>> WHAT HAPPENED IS CHILI WASAWARDED THE GAMES IN 1981, BUTIN 1982 THEY HAD A REVOLUTIONAND THE ENSUING CHAOS MADE IT
IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO HAVE THEGAMES.SO THE PAN-AMERICAN SPORTSORGANIZATION, THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE SUBSIDIARY OF THEIOC, TURNED TO THE U.S. OLYMPICCOMMITTEE AND SAID YOUR COUNTRYAS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN STAGE
THESE EVENTS ON THE SHORT TIMETHAT IS NOW AVAILABLE.AND THE U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEECAME TO US BECAUSE WE HAD RUN A
SUCCESSFUL SPORTS FESTIVAL IN1982 WHICH IS REALLY THE SEMINALEVENT OF OUR SPORTS EVENTS ANDHAD EXPERIENCE RUNNING A
MULTISPORT EVENT.>> SO ALREADY A GOODREPUTATION.I WANT YOUR THOUGHTS LOOKING
BACK WE SAW A VIDEO OF THEOPENING CEREMONIES AT THE MOTORSPEEDWAY, WHICH AT THE TIME WASTHE FIRST EVENT OUTSIDE OF THE
500TH THAT HAD EVER BEEN THERE.>> THAT'S RIGHT.WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS AS YOULOOKED AT THAT AND PARTICIPATED
IN THE CEREMONIES?>> IT WAS A GREAT EVENT.THEY FILLED THE STRAIGHTAWAYSTANDS 87,000 PEOPLE WERE ABLE
TO ATTEND.THE DISNEY PEOPLE DID A GREATJOB OF PUTTING ON AN OPENINGCEREMONY COMPLETE WITH ALL SORTS
OF MUSIC AND DANCING IN PARADESAND THE USUAL THINGS YOU HAVEBUT IT WAS REALLY SPECTACULAR.AND WE HAD THEN VICE PRESIDENT
GEORGE HW BUTCH AND SOMEDIGNITARIES FROM THE OLYMPICCOMMITTEE AND IT WAS A LOT OFWORK, BUT WE PULLED IT OFF.
>> SO MANY STORIES THAT WEWERE SHARING OFF-CAMERABASEBALL, THE USA RED BASEBALLGAME AT THE OLD BUSCH STADIUM ON
16TH STREET.IT WAS A CRAZY TIME.>> IT TURNED OUT THAT FIDELCASTRO DID NOT COME TO THE
GAMES, BUT BECAUSE CUBA WASGOING TO BE THE NEXT HOST, HESENT THE NUMBER TWO GUY IN THEHIERARCHY WHO TURNED OUT TO BE A
COLONEL FERNANDEZ WHO IS NOW ATTHE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ANDTHE CUBAN GOVERNMENT BUT HADBEEN THE COMMANDER OF THE CUBAN
FORCES AT THE BAY OF PIGS.SO IT WAS A HIGHLY CONTROVERSIALCHARACTER WITHIN THECUBAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND WE
WERE WORRIED ABOUT THE SECURITYOF THE SITUATION.AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAD ASTANDARD HOOSIER 5:00 O'CLOCK
AUGUST THUNDERSTORM COME UP.EVERYBODY IS UNDER THE STANDSWAITING FOR THE WATER TO GOAWAY.
AND THERE'S A TREMENDOUS BOOMOUTSIDE AND WE THOUGHT OH, MYGOD AND BRENT MUSBURGER WAS ONNATIONAL TV SAYING THERE'S BEEN
AN EXPLOSION AT THE BASEBALLFINALS AND OF COURSE, IT WAS AGAME BETWEEN THE CUBANS AND THEU.S. FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO IT
WAS GREAT BASEBALL.BUT IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC AND ITTURNED OUT TO BE A TOTALNONEVENT.
>> FORTUNATE IT ALL WORKED OUTAND THE GAMES WERE HOSTED IN AGREAT WAY.20 SECONDS, BUT IN YOUR VIEW
LOOKING AT 30 YEARS NOW, THEIMPACT IN YOUR VIEW THAT THEGAMES HAD ON THE DEVELOPMENT OFINDIANAPOLIS.
>> IT DID TWO THINGS, FIRST OFALL, IT HELPED ADVANCE OURVISIBILITY INTERNATIONALLY ASWELL AS NATIONALLY.
BUT IMPORTANTLY, I THINK ITUPLIFTED THE CITY'S CAN-DOMENTALITY TO SPUR A LOT OF OTHERTHINGS THAT HAVE COME MANY OF
WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITHSPORTS, BUT OTHER COLLABORATIVEVENTURES THAT HAVE MADEINDIANAPOLIS A GREAT CITY IT IS
TODAY.>> WE ALL REMEMBER THEPAN-AMERICAN GAMES AND A GREATEVENT FOR OUR CITY.