Back in the 1980's this was an amazing park, one that I visited almost daily, seeing I grew up two blocks away from it.
Greenfield park used to have a nice swimming pool park, one with a 20ft deep diving well and four diving boards and a awesome big pool. Yes, the pool was upgraded, but nothing like it used to be.
Downstairs in the main building, tickets were sold for 50 cents and they sold ice creams and other treats. Yes, times have changed, but now this building is just kept empty. I visit the park every summer.
The main pond was once the center of attention. Paddle boats were once rented out here and the pond always had dozens of people fishing in it at any given time. Now, I never see any activities taken place at the pond during my visits. The pond used to be thoroughly maintained by the park employees and they used to remove all the floating debris with special boats and machines, all of this has seemed to stop.
When I visit this park it's quite depressing to see, because I remember how great this park was as a little boy. This place totally sucks now if your coming here as an six year old up till an adult. If you are younger, you'll just use the playground, so it's okay.
Back behind the main pool area and past the main building is a trail that leads to two small ponds. There used to be huge gold fish in those ponds, some as much as 15-20 pounds. I no longer see them. The smaller pond on the left used to be filled through a ground spring, which flowed down the rock bedding and filled those ponds. Now that underground spring is blocked. It was there for hundreds, if not, thousands of years, what happened?
I once drank from it and my golly, gee, it was good, clean and ohhh so refreshing. About 100 feet away was a swing set with 4 swings and some bars to do exercises. Those were removed.
If you grew up in the area and came here in the 80's and early 90's you know that this park is nothing like it used to be. I'm sure it was probably even better in the 60's and 70's.
These days, kids can't even feed the ducks bread. It's illegal to do so. Times have changed, some for the better and some not. read more