This photo shows a group of children running around in a playground on Stillman Street in the North End. In the photo, it appears the majority of this playground was simply wide open cement, however, if you take a look at the second photo shown below, you’ll notice there were several sets of swings in the back corner – making this a popular destination for children in the neighborhood.
The park today (known as as Cutillo Park) is still heavily utilized! It now includes several shaded areas, additional playsets and basketball hoops.
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The Stillman playground used to be an MDC skating rink. I learned how to ice skate there when I was 5 or 6 years old. I’m talking 1965-66.
I thought Mike Nazzaro was responsible for this Skating Rink.
The Manager there was a guy named Frank. he lived on Cooper st. later on down the road, I worked for him at the MDC rink on Commercial st.