Woodley Park (Los Angeles)

Recreation

• Picnic areas
• Archery club and archer training grounds, some who have become world and Olympic champions in the late 1990s and early 2000s

Cricket

Main article: Leo Magnus Cricket Complex

Woodley Park has five cricket grounds in the Leo Magnus Cricket Complex, and draws many of the best cricket players in the Los Angeles area.

On many weekends, Woodley Park hosts a number of games of cricket being played by expats of Britain and Commonwealth counties, and British influenced countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Caribbean.

The 1995 and 2002 U.S. national cricket championships were held at the park.

Events

Events in Woodley Park can/have included:

• Classic car shows.

• Bagpiping troupe weekly practice, in the late 1980s.

• Boy Scout Jamboree for the western Los Angeles County Boy Scout Council in 1999

• In approximately the mid 1970s Bonnie Raitt did free anti nuclear power plant concerts. ;Crime Woodley Park was a scene of major drug dealing in the mid-1980s, a drug "supermarket" that was one of the most notorious areas in the San Fernando Valley for open drug sales. Increased police patrols, undercover operations, and surveillance by civilian volunteers curtailed the scene.

• A stabbing death occurred in 1986

• the murder of a homeless man kicked to death by two dozen men after an argument in 1988, and shootings at two public events in mid-1992, including at a reggae festival and, fatally, at an African-American college Greek organization event.

Dog park

Approximately 1.5 acres of the park were set aside in the late 1980s as a dog park area. The city did not allocate funds until the 1990s for the construction of a fence needed for safer use by dogs and people.

References

References

1. Peterson, Lauren. (August 5, 2000). "Straight Arrow: Montenegro, a World Champion Archer, Does His Best in Passing Sport to the Younger Generation". Los Angeles Times.
2. Becker, Tom. (December 13, 1997). "Archery Tournament Lines Up Toys for Tots". Los Angeles Times.
3. Lazarus, Michael. (July 6, 1995). "Cricketers' Proving Grounds : Recreation: Woodley Park zone matches help in selection of U.S. team.". Los Angeles Times.
4. Broadbent, Lucy. (June 2011). "Something Wicket This Way Comes: To the many things for which Compton is known, add a competitive cricket team". LA Times Magazine.
5. Berger, Leslie. (April 23, 1989). "Classic Cars Draw a Much Bigger Crowd Than Mother Earth". Los Angeles Times.
6. Wharton, Dave. (January 4, 1987). "Peck of Pipers Practicing for Perfection Perk Up Sundays in Park". Los Angeles Times.
7. Diggs, Agnes. (May 23, 1999). "Jamboree Attracts 6,400 Boy Scouts". Los Angeles Times.
8. Braxton, Greg. (February 8, 1985). "Woodley Avenue 'Supermarket' : Police Say Drug Sales at Notorious Van Nuys Park Cut Significantly". Los Angeles Times.
9. (November 8, 1986). "Van Nuys Man Held in Woodley Park Slaying". Los Angeles Times.
10. (December 7, 1988). "Local News in Brief : Tonga Native Gets 3 Years in Kicking Death". Los Angeles Times.
11. Chu, Henry. (April 6, 1992). "1 Killed, 4 Hurt in Gunfight at Fraternity Picnic". Los Angeles Times.
12. (July 15, 1989). "Growling to Greet Dog Park Proposal". Los Angeles Times.
13. Schwada, John. (September 27, 1990). "Park Goes (for Good) to Dogs". Los Angeles Times.