Trolley Park — Attraction in Long Beach

This tiny patch of greenery was actually laid out in the 1880s when Long Beach actually had a trolley. It was a piece of green grass in a time when only a handful of homes existed and NO apartment complexes were the norm, but open fields and a quiet, peaceful breath of lazy fresh air relaxed human necessity.

A tiny patch of green for the usual dalliances and loafers could come and greet each other, nowadays, constant traffic and air pollution is the constant. Hardly any asphalt jungle, until the 1920s arrived. The park then disappeared and showed back up by the 1950s. Disappeared once again and reappeared by 1982 and has been a constant unassuming attraction ever since, for residential passerbys and their best friends...

Of all the things to call this patch of grass, a park is not one of them. Call it: A dog run An oversight in roadway construction A mistake A way to ease right-turning traffic A lawn-mowing practice spot Your mom

But don’t call it a park, your kids can’t play there, and you sure...

Lady laying/attempting to sleep on bench claimed " this was her property, not a park" I asked if it was also her trashcan to which she replied yes it was but if I had some trash I could use it. And told us again that it was land from her...