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Up from Nanny Goat Park

Caption: "Up from Nanny Goat Park--The kids who used to inhabit Brownsville's garbage-strewn lots and fought gang wars with bottles, bricks, and weapons found in a junk heap called Nanny Goat Park, now have a $1,500,000 clubhouse with a modern gymnasium and $150,000 swimming pool." Image includes five boys who appear to be playing stickball.

IMAGE DATE1953
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