On many weekends, Woodley Park hosts a number of games of cricket being played by expats of Britain and Commonwealth counties, and British influenced countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Caribbean.[4]
In approximately the mid 1970s Bonnie Raitt did free anti nuclear power plant concerts.
Crime
Woodley Park was a scene of major drug dealing in the mid-1980s, a drug "supermarket" that was one of the most notorious areas in the San Fernando Valley for open drug sales. Increased police patrols, undercover operations, and surveillance by civilian volunteers curtailed the scene.[9]
the murder of a homeless man kicked to death by two dozen men after an argument in 1988,[11] and shootings at two public events in mid-1992, including at a reggae festival[12] and, fatally, at an African-American college Greek organization event.[13]
Dog park
Approximately 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of the park were set aside in the late 1980s as a dog park area.[14] The city did not allocate funds until the 1990s for the construction of a fence needed for safer use by dogs and people.[15]
