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2 unusual facts about MacArthur Park


John Henry Bryant

As a member of the Park Commission, Bryant was in April 1890 part of a committee that went out canvassing or money "to give employment to idle men in Westlake Park, for three hours." The men were to be put to work on projects to improve the park.

The LSD Story

When detectives Joe Friday and Bill Gannon arrive at MacArthur Park, they find a boy with his head buried in the ground.



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Ed Reyes

In October 2002, and shortly after William Bratton became the City's top cop, Reyes brought the Los Angeles Police Department Police Chief to MacArthur Park to witness firsthand the drug deals, gang activity and shootings there.

Otis family

Otis began in 1918, when Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis bequeathed his MacArthur Park property to start the first public, independent professional school of art in Southern California.