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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 13 May 2015, p. 22

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e2 -WAI t kl t tut murmur -wistummt Mat. ll mi, U ° g th ° 1 ‘ City of Waterloo Museum celebrates 125th anniversary ofWaterloo Park 8v Boa VRMNM’ 5‘73" , ; ‘ o _ fl ;- , w”. w j ;_‘ gorgeous pavilion that was the cen. (llfff’ll‘fl’i‘i‘fl 7 V, l j x \ ‘1 X2: . a , _ 1 g I“. s " r, g tre of the summer dance season. ' .5 '3 i , t, r . .\ Q |_ ‘“ ”“ , ~_‘t. 7_ ‘7" 3,; and would have been a romantic aterloo Park is often . “ '- ' 3 f t . ' , ‘ x \ \\\ 7‘ . t s_ ' setting with all the windows open Wtalled "the tewel" of the ‘ ' A ‘ ‘ ."s~ ‘\ ’ \‘ , \“\_ \ . '. to the warm breezes, t m ol Waterloo‘s park a -. . ‘ I, 1 " ‘ “'1 - “That’s just one of the features s\slt‘ttl her anse ot the signifitanee ' ' . I t P that is no longer with us," said Van it s had in dmeloptng the commit ._ ",’ ' r s ‘- dean'nk. “It was a beautiful strue. tltl\ s sense ol sell [“ j ‘ t t. ’ J g , ture that had the city's greenhouse But the teuel metaphor is also JJ ' ,' . ' ”3““ ' I -' l 'V , ofi'the backoftt. an apt one to {lt'\t rthe all ot the dif~ "- '1' ' '- st; r - / V H â€" : "’lhere was also a hig hike trtrt'k lt‘tt‘ltl lat ets the park has had over ' ,_ I X 3 '. there, and motorhtlte races that ‘ tts l.‘ s teats some the land) l by r 9 N ’1‘ _ happenedthere " taint txas at quot-d to new tn the t, - § There was even a hit ot lovers K tll -ge ttt ‘l\aterloo to r reate Ils first in? k ’ " lane at the park With some Visitors :ttttl ./ ‘ ' ’ ‘ ,_ , to the exhibit hmttng about its («is ‘slatt‘s ml those (llllt‘lt‘lll tat ets _ :1 ‘ ' ‘s’ -' N ' tenct’ ate or: tl,\[lltl‘s at a nets ( 1H ot ‘ ' ‘ That wasn't the only nocturnal ‘t'tatt lltlll \lllst'liltt exhthtt talled ' l t ’ 3 life. Apparently, Waterloo Park was 't‘t :'l’llt ht l‘tttl letwl ol thet |l\ that , ~ L ._ home to hears, Cougars and a birds l-'llttttlllt1:l‘é'tlN‘ttl Jo E ‘ ‘: ‘ of prey avian But herause ol sortie ht!“ :t \atttlenllttttl the t us ol - f r nighttime iatidalisttr tits oll‘it ials mansions n anagez ot museum . ‘ 7: “fl ;' ,3“ ‘ had to put the Lllmsh on keeping l‘!1(}l|lllll‘ll ttllll‘t ttons said the . t s‘ , , those types ot mid animals tor fear ml to: ts llt‘lt‘lllrlllttll ot taxourtte ' . ‘ 3 ‘ I , ‘ a _ the) might get loosen! lllt‘fll} llvt nu ttlr‘s tron: people in the r out _ Q I ,‘ E lhat's \sh) the only tigers ut the tl‘llllll‘. as mun h as tt looks at the ' a ,1; park for the longest time were pail s tong hrstor\ ‘ “' i, : members ol the baseball team that l thtnlt a lug part of what this . 1" > ‘ . . ‘- onee featured infielders Hobby t'\lllllll ts going to he for a lot of a ' «27.de ' 2' ‘5: Batter and Milt St‘hmidt, who people ts a mentor) ('Klllllllt" said ' ‘ 5‘ , I _,.; would go on to lorin the famous ‘taiirlenllrinlt "Yes, we do have arti- v a I, .. .‘ ‘ )s. Kraut line of the Boston tar Is that stipport the ditfert-nt '. , ' ‘ . O " Bruins. themes that we are showtng here. m ' - ' ’- » 3‘; A. ‘ The park grew out of the great ltltl a lot of it ts memon based and V 3‘ 4‘ t ' - -. V ‘ ‘ ' 5:3}; - #1.. , . parks tradition started in [nitdorts ltottt photographs .4"? ’ .2 5‘9”: 5. , ’. _ â€" ‘ ~ “'3”; A g . é, Hyde Park and New York( itV's ('en . ‘ . . . . . .. he tried to rapture the park at _ ‘;;’~‘._.;KI'§~;'_". "h- ,- ‘. if . f .. I ‘ a» ‘7; ‘ , a: .13sz tral Parks hut tool on a life of its tltllerettt stages of its Itli- right up to --» ‘ ' - ‘ l '14; h ‘) "s ' ‘ own refit-i ted by the Interests ol more or less the present day and Thts Is a picture of the original entran<e to Waterloo Park, and it speaks to how formal park wsrtors were at one lrx .II t itr/eris some ol the thanges that hate time. dressed in their Sunday best as it became the hub of mmmunity lite .mtthnawn “ [hrs was ahotit hating a H.“ t alien plat r“ large greenspar e to the intddle of to: roam ol the usitors U ml] lug? lhat ll had a 7le foot slide that Silver lake. hut nohodx wrll go near home to man lung hands espet ial the r l[\‘ for the residents to entrn ’ lt‘rtll tnio tr ‘llo sou tetnetnhet would dangeroush shoot young It now," said \‘itttilenllrinlt Will] a l\ the Waterloo llattil headed In said \andenllrinlt ‘lt was part ol when t‘xtll‘tlt‘llt l‘ \.inilertllritth daredevtls out into the middle of laugh. before the Il't't hes and Professor ( harles l lhlele that that whole patlts ltltt\t‘tttt'lll that sattl part of the ton ol the t‘\lllllll ll most-red Nilver lake? threats of hotulrsrtt ptit an end to would pull thousands ol people out was taking plate ‘ has lteett the people ts ho hate [ltd you know that \rlsi-r lake the txrpltlarpastitni- to the show attompanietl hv fire lhose stttppets ot lllslttr\ and tsattill'lt'tl Ill sltltt‘ tt opened at the ‘~\tis out e a popular sisimmitig 'lht're are too mam, goose works lhere is exert \Itlt'tt of the other inernortes are on displto at start ol \l.r\ to share lllt'lt ter ollei area or that pit nit s were so popii droppings, i-ti tum vshi-re at one prolessor being drt\i'n around in a the museum ishit h \\|ll hale spe ‘lttlt‘s lat that thet II\ had toptit itt sper ial time it was all I leaned up and whitetadlllai as he enters the stag ital i'\li‘tl(lt‘tl hours anatIahIe tor llltl v. on knots tlt rt Waterloo ordrttattt es tn order to lit them all groomed as a heat It " mg area at the height ol the mart h slttllllll‘l xteuing lot a lttll ltsitttg ol l‘arit was otue lllt l‘tthl‘lllll‘ ol the ttt’ Waterliml‘arlt uasototth popu tttghartdspopularrtx hours ol opt‘tattott \tsrt tledglmg sport ot trtototr \t lt rat too used to he able to smut lll lar With the plt lllt has it “as also “alerloo Park also oiu e had a wuss \\.llt‘lltt'tt a tttilst‘llttt Al I ENTION BUSINESSES!!! a t a N _ ,‘fig’fi' a)“, 'r""“"‘ ‘ : - flan-"ott-t: “, "“ 4 ~ ll . l - -’ ,' , q thPHESSION - A- Mm I- t‘ ~ ‘1... 7. ;_ r.“ . l , ,- t s. 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