The Observer Newspaper is a general interest newspaper reporting on Santa Monica and adjoining communities, such as Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, West L.A. and Venice. We are currently in our 13th year of Printing the Observer. Newspaper.

Coach Douglas, 75, training runners for the U.S. Olympic team, as he has every for years for a generation. “We have several Olympic Prospects this year,” says Douglas. “ We could use some more sponsors, though.” The Santa Monica Track Club was formed in 1972 by Joe Douglas as a post-collegiate track club. By the 1980s, the team came to be a major player in worldwide Track and Field competition, with team members setting numerous World and National records. The membership list reads like a Who’s Who of Olympic athletes and the SMTC logo became a recognizable icon on the uniforms of those elite athletes.