Los Angeles Recreation and Park Commission
supervisory committee organized 1904
The City of Los Angeles park and playground departments, also referred to as commissions or committees, were the two municipal government agencies which managed parks and recreational facilities in Los Angeles, California, before the current Department of Recreation and Parks was chartered in 1947. The Park Department was founded with the first Los Angeles city charter in 1889. The Playground Department was founded in 1904 and was renamed the Department of Playground and Recreation in the 1925 charter.
History
The Los Angeles Department of Parks was organized in 1889. The Los Angeles Playground Commission was organized by the city council in 1904 as an unpaid five-person commission; the commissioners had authority to hire a superintendent and staff. Arabella Page Rodman served as president from the time of its organization. By 1908, they had created two playgrounds, at Violet Street Park and Echo Park, and a Spanish Renaissance-style recreation center intended "offer something of what the social settlement or YMCA building furnishes." Planned for 1910 were playgrounds at Hazard Playground and Slauson Avenue Playground. By 1914 Downey Playground and Exposition Park Athletic Field had been established. A municipal bathhouse and a "Mexican settlement" bathhouse were established in 1915. Mrs.
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