Stein's Grove - Forest Park

This postcard is from sometime in the early twentieth century. It is labeled as the Stein's Grove addition in Miller Park. This was known to us as Forest Park. It was south of the Miller Park's big lagoon, west of Springfield Road and east of Morris Avenue. There were llamas and camels in the park. When the Bloomington Fire Department retired their horses for motorized engines, Roland Behrends (who later became BFD chief) was responsible to take the horses to pasture at Forest Park.