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Article: WHAT'S HOT: Happy birthday, dear El Dorado Nature Center
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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NATURE CENTER AT 40: We don't go back quite so far that we
remember bean fields to the east of Studebaker Road, but we hardly
paid attention to the east of Studebaker when we were growing up in
the '60s, just a couple of blocks from that road that was where the
world ended and endless fields of whatever began.
We had the typically wild imagination. We were a rugged American
GI weary of battling the forces of Hitler and Hirohito, we were
Dodgers Maury Wills and Ron Fairly, but it took a crazier
imagination than we had to dream that El Dorado Park, already in its
incipient stages, would turn out to be more than the flatlands and
saplings that marked its beginnings.
And we certainly never ...