As Dan recalled to me, some time in the early 2000's the Athletic Department was undergoing a huge move into a new building.  During this process hundreds of reels of archived film were tossed into dumpsters - they were done with it.  Dan took it upon himself to retrieve as much as he could, and then stored it at his home for many years prior to his death.  His plan was to make it his retirement hobby to digitize and archive as much of this hoard as possible.  He didn't live to fulfill that dream.

Years later, the Bailey Family entrusted their garage full of films to me and I promised that I would do whatever I could to someday digitize and make them available to the Long Beach State athletic community.  What I didn't realize though, was the significance of how expensive it would be to even begin