Another Big Park

Monday, March 07, 2005, at 05:12AM

By Eric Richardson

This weekend I was introduced for the first time to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills. For a big city, Los Angeles keeps surprising me with these massive parks that you don't really understand the scale of until you're there. Griffith Park is amazing, and I've been there many times, but I had only driven by Kenneth Hahn SRA before Saturday. The site was home to the Olympic Village for the 1932 games, and then did some time as an oil field before the state bought the hilltop in 1983 and made it into a really nice looking park. There are pictures in my flickr gallery.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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