William B Simons Recreation Center
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Simons Recreation Center
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Simons Playground: plans, elevations, and details, 1955 April 19
Item — Drawer N9: Series 9, Folder: 1.1
Identifier: 9
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
Of the 70+ parks within the Fairmount Park system, there is a disparate amount of material available in this collection. Major watershed parks (such as Fairmount Park and Wissahickon Park) are not covered in this collection, nor are significant indepedent parks such as FDR Park and Bartram's Garden. This collection is concentrated on neighborhood parks, particularly smaller parks and squares. Some parks are undocumented, or have only one or two related items, while other parks...
Dates:
1955 April 19
Simons Recreation Center: history - articles, clippings, excerpts, n.d.
File — Drawer 4-5
Dates:
n.d.
Simons Youth Access and Teen Center, 1957-1975
File — Drawer 5.3
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs of the park grounds and facilities, building exterior, people ice skating, a basketball game, the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the ice rink, and an ice hockey clinic taught by members of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Dates:
1957-1975