Overton Park

Overton Park

Sunday Afternoon Rides Through Park Were In Automobiles And Not Carriages By the 1900s.

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The caption from this 1950s/1960s postcard reads:
OVERTON PARK. 335-acre wooded park in the center of Memphis, Tennessee. Here are located the Memphis Zoo, featuring a free children’s circus daily (except Monday) during the summer months; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; a 9-hole golf course; playground area, and picnic grounds.

Click photo to enlarge. Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn

Brooks Museum of Art

Doughboy Memorial Statue

Japanese Gardens

The Overton Park Shell

Memphis College of Art

Memphis Zoo

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Submitted by: Bill Gray : 23 Jan 2009, 17:23

There was a lake in Overton Park that was populated by a larhe number of ducks and geese. They occasionally had fishing rodeos there (1950's). It was a wonderful place to spend a "free" Sunday afternoon for hundreds of "once a week" dads.

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