Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Parks and Recreation Department Austin (PARD) - Austin (Tex.). Department of Parks and Recreation
Photographs documenting Austin Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection
Photographs documenting the Doris Miller Auditorium from the Austin Files collection. Rosewood Recreation Center and the Doris Miller Auditorium, is a 31,500 square feet facility with a gymnasium. The purpose of the facility is to provide all groups in the City of Austin with community recreation and leisure programs. The Center and gymnasium offer year round classes, workshops, special events, tournaments, performances, demonstrations.
Photographs documenting Givens Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection
Photographs documenting Hancock Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection
Photographs documenting the Montopolis Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection
Media documenting the Pan American Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection. The Oswaldo A.B. Cantu/Pan American Recreation Center has been serving the community of East Austin since 1956 and offers a variety of year-round recreation and leisure programs for youth, teens, adults and seniors. Such activities include youth and adult sports, Youth Boxing, Totally Cool Totally Art teen program, After School programs, Day Camps, Spring Break and Summer Camps, and Community Special Events like the Hillside Summer Concert Series, Annual Halloween Carnival, Community Thanksgiving Dinner, and Cookies with Santa. The Oswaldo A.B. Cantu/Pan Am Recreation Center also offers a variety of contract classes such as our Adult Capoeira Class, Ballet Folklorico, Tae-Kwon-Do, and more. The 4,000-square-foot Hillside Theater mural at the Oswaldo A.B. Cantu/Pan American Recreation Center is one of many murals Raúl Valdez created in the 1970s. The story told in the mural spans different eras, including the Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, the Chicano civil rights movement, and contemporary life. In 2011, the city spent $52,000 restoring the mural. At the time, Valdez told the Austin American-Statesman, “It belongs to the people of East Austin. It’s a representation of what the people who lived there wanted to see.”
Photographs documenting Rosewood Recreation Center from the Austin Files collection
