Greetings from Pershing Square, Los Angeles

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Timeline:

• 1866.  Block 15 set aside as a town square.  No funds provided for improvements
• 1870.  Renamed Los Angeles Park, which was fenced in with trees planted around the perimeter.
• 1910.  $80,000 renovation.  Architect John Parkinson's design creates a symmetrical plan with walkways and ornamental plantings.
• 1918. Renamed Pershing Square, in honor of John Pershing, commander of U.S. forces in what later became known as World War I.
• 1930s and 1940s.  Gathering place for the marginalized. 
• Early 1950s.  Renovation includes subterranean parking garage (access at lower right in postcard) and a walking path around the perimeter of a fenced-in lawn area.
• 1990s.  Another redesign, which KCET shrugs off as not worth describing.

Related reading:
Here's the Timeline For the Big Redesign of LA's Oldest and Most Hated Park.  (Curbed Los Angeles, 9/2/2015)

Pershing Square is Los Angeles's oldest park, dating from 1866 (with name changes and redesigns since), but an unfortunate Post-Modern renovation in the early 1990s has also made it LA's most hated.

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