05/19/2013 - Jose De Diego Community Academy (the school's playground), Wicker Park, 1313 N Claremont Ave (off of Western)

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link to panorama: http://pnr.ma/aYkDjy

I've seen this one from the road for years, and it looked appealing enough... and I found it interesting.

After our weekly pancake slaughter at The Fullerton, we watered up (it was/is a hot one today) and took a short drive to just north of Roberto Clemente High School (at Western & Division). 

This park was completely deserted, so much so that in the panorama above you can see a white plastic bag floating along to which Máximo commented, "Daddy look, a tumbleweed!"

GCVV in the shadow of that weird-looking, Gilliam-esque building on Division

George Carlos - ★★★★★,"the colors [of the two playgrounds] that I like, green and red, and I got to fight [in a pretend gun battle]."

Máximo - ★★★ 1/2, "Because it was deserted."

He's right, the heat combined with the absence of life made it a desolate sort of experience, but we made the best of it and had a battle.

The RED (east) side.

The GREEN (west) side.

All in all, this park is in pretty good condition, and has some steep slides.  It's just out of the way and not heavily populated.

The slides were hot as hell too, that kept total enjoyment at bay.

G liked climbing this one.

http://www.josedediego.org/home-page