LINCOLN PARK UPDATES
Last update 10/21/2007

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2/6/02
Added Golden Web Award.
9/30/99
 
New page.
2/29/00
5/27/07
Updated all info.
 11/21/99
 9/18/04
Updated page.
12/19/99
11/12/06
Updated page.
11/21/99
5/27/07
Updated page.
 9/30/99
8/11/01
New photo of rear of main entrance.
3/20/00
 
New page.
 9/30/99
10/1/01
Added boxing link.
12/2/99
 9/18/04
Sponsors for our various programs.
5/12/02
6/25/06
Updated Summer Day Camp for 2006
6/01
5/27/07
Updated for 2007
6/01
10/21/07
New page!
10/21/07
HAZARD PARK
Formally Hazard Playground
Updated 2/11/03
Even though not in Lincoln Heights, Hazard Park with its unique history and next door to Lincoln Park. About a ten minute walk over Valley Blvd., the railroad tracks, and through the USC Health Sciences Campus. While Lincoln Park was available in the early years of the 20th century, there were no planned and supervised recreation activities in the parks. Children were forced to find their play on public streets and vacant lots that were hardly suited for organized games. These conditions triggered a civic movement to officially establish a Playground Commission and Department. Their plan was "for the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency and to provide wholesome and constructive play and recreation for youth, in supervised playgrounds, as an alternative to play in the city streets." In 1904 the City created the first municipal Playground Department in the United States. What followed was the establishment of several playgrounds between 1905-1911, Hazard Park being one, a Lincoln Park partner.

If you have old photos of Hazard Park please email me.
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