Woodley Park is a recreation area managed by the

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and located along Woodley Avenue between Victory and Burbank Boulevards in the

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. The area is located within the large Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in the central

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. The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant is adjacent to the park and surrounded by The Japanese Garden, a large

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open to the public. Woodley park picnic area

Recreation

* Picnic areas *

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

Cricket

Woodley Park has five

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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

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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: *

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shows. *

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troupe weekly practice, in the late 1980s. * Boy Scout Jamboree for the western

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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

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 of the park were set aside in the late 1980s as a

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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

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