DECATUR — Brandya Brown has been watching the neighborhood kids flock to the newly renovated Garfield Park.
Newly renovated Garfield Park has the same pavilion but added new playground equipment and basketball courts.
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Robert Calmese shoots hoops on the new Garfield Park basketball courts.
A new pavilion was added to the Garfield Park allowing more families to enjoy the area.
The Garfield Park pavilion has an ideal view of the new playground.
Eli Delatte, 5, tests out the electronic ball wall in the newly renovated Garfield Park.
PHOTOS: Decatur parks through the years
1936: Shown is part of the crowd of WPA employees who gathered around a radio in Central Park on a Saturday afternoon to hear a broadcast by Harry L. Hopkins, national administrator.
1969: A Decatur motorist is about to run over a "sleeping policeman" in Fairview Park. The "Sleeping policeman" is a raised bump in the road meant to slow down drivers on the winding park roads.
1992: The Fairview Park Caboose, burned and vandalized, was cut up for scrap. Decatur Park District employee Lynn Cooper throws a piece into a dumpster. Sol Tick & Co. did the work.
1992: It wasn't exact ideal weather for stringing lights when Darcie Leffler and Susie Schuman, executive vice president of the Downtown Decatur Council, decked the park with its annual Christmas lighting display.
1968: Dan Nelson, 9, of Decatur rides through Fairview Park, staying within the bounds painted by the Decatur Park District workers recently as a protected area for joggers, walkers and bicycle riders.
1961: The Civil War monument in Decatur's Central Park is shown.
1988: Dee Musgrave waves from sleigh during a trip around Decatur's Central Park.
1985: On a recent day in Decatur's Fairview Park, dad, Greg Jones of 202 N. College St., was hitting flies to sons Ryan, 5, resident Cubs fan, and Eric, 9, a Cardinals fan.
1985: In Decatur's Fairview Park, dad Greg Jones of 202 N. College St. was hitting balls to sons Ryan, 5, resident Cubs fan, and Eric, 9, a Cardinals fan, of course.
1989: Cameron Barnett, 3 1/2, perched on the shoulders of his dad, Dave, studies an exhibit Saturday at the Downtown Decatur Art Fair in Central Park. The fair, featuring everything from oil paintings to pottery to jewelry, continues today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
1936: New buses of the Decatur City Lines, which will replace the I.P. & L. Corp. transportation system were displayed to downtown shoppers at Central Park.
1936: New buses of the Decatur City Lines, which will replace the I.P. & L. Corp. transportation system were displayed to downtown shoppers at Central Park.
1931: This aerial view of downtown Decatur shows the Citizen's Building and Central Park.
1984: This aerial view of downtown Decatur shows Central Park in the foreground and Sears to the left.
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Donnette Beckett
"Together Decatur" Columnist and Food/Drink Reporter
