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Thats "JOSE" with his catch. The water turns green with algea in the summer.
This must be before 1943, cause thats when they added the cement sides.
Kissena Park occupies 282 acres in Queens, linking Cunningham Park with Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The City of New York
acquired the land in pieces beginning in 1904. Park developers named it in 1908 after Kissena Lake. The name Kissena, probably
given by horticulturist Samuel Bowne Parsons, comes from a Midwestern Indian tribe, the Chippewas, and means cool water. In
the 1870s Parsons had established a tree nursery there. Today, nearly 100 varieties of trees from Europe and Asia remain in
the parks historic tree grove. In addition to Kissena Lake, the park includes facilities for golf, baseball, tennis, hiking,
and soccer.
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