InLakePlacid, home of the 1980 WinterOlympics, for example, the designers of the Villageplanned to use it as anopenprison as soon as the Games were over.
Boeheim was in his fourth season as head coach of the Orange and on the fast track to stardom with 95 wins on his brief resume when the Hoyas came to town Feb. 13, the eve of the opening ceremonies for the LakePlacidWinterOlympics.
They used incandescent lamps to display stats, the same technology Daktronics relied on for the next 25 years, through an exclusive contract to provide the scoreboards for the 1980 WinterOlympics in LakePlacid, New York, large displays for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and an electronic voting system for the U.N.
One of the most visible belonged to the late songstress Kate Smith ("When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain"), whose 1930s and '40s radio show helped--along with the 1932 Winter Olympics--put LakePlacid on the map.