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City Playground open

Seven playgrounds and four tot lots opened June 16, 1965, in Butler. From left, Jimmy Diamond Jr., 3, of Eau Claire Street; Mary Lou Crawford, 6, of First Street; Barb Burke, playground leader of Institute Hill Tot Lot; and Sandy Stutz, 4½, of First St., build sand castles as the children did more than 50 years earlier at the first city playground located north of the Wayne Street Viaduct at what was then the YMCA athletic field.

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