WBAN has the Original Los Angeles photo that was featured in the Los Angeles Times. It is copyrighted so we will not display it on this story. Here is a link to the photo on another website. We will not post it because it has copyright issues…Sue TL Fox
In 1984, as Los Angeles prepared to host the Summer Olympics and combat sports enjoyed a surge in mainstream visibility, local newspapers frequently highlighted everyday athletes and fitness trends across Southern California. Among the snapshots preserved from that era is a syndicated press photograph capturing two women, Laurie Hargous and Tammi Rothschild, training for boxing at The Questar Gym in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. Distributed on standard 10-by-8-inch wire stock, the image reflects the kind of human-interest feature commonly published in major daily newspapers like the Los Angeles Times during the mid-1980s.
Despite the enduring physical record of the photograph, very little public biographical or athletic information remains accessible online regarding either woman. Neither Laurie Hargous nor Tammi Rothschild appears in official professional boxing registries such as BoxRec, nor do their names surface in open-web digitized indexes of the Los Angeles Times under those exact spellings. This absence suggests that the two women were likely amateur athletes, local gym regulars, or models and actresses participating in a workout feature rather than sanctioned professional fighters. Furthermore, minor spelling variations common in 1980s wire-service captions—such as “Tammy” for “Tammi” or “Lori” for “Laurie”—can complicate automated text searches decades later.
For researchers or family members hoping to locate the exact Los Angeles Times page where the photo or accompanying story originally ran, subscription newspaper databases remain the most reliable avenue. Searching the 1984 Los Angeles Times archive on platforms like Newspapers.com or ProQuest Historical Newspapers—which is often accessible free of charge through local public library systems—allows users to scan original page layouts and photo captions. Because optical character recognition software occasionally misreads faded newsprint, filtering specifically by the year 1984 and searching for the distinctive surname “Hargous” or the location “Questar Gym” offers the highest chance of uncovering the original clipping.
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