Originally Centinela Park, the historic location was renamed in 1997 to honor Edward Vincent Jr., the first African-American mayor of the city.

[2] The development of the nearby larger Baldwin Hills State Recreation Area in 1983 was said to relieve some of the local demand on Centinela Park amenities.

Some sort of recreational layout may have existed by 1895: “Thanksgiving day the lnglewood Baseball club played the Brickyard Nine on the diamond at Centinela.”[12] The chimney of the closed brick kiln was ultimately demolished by the Keystone Film Company as part of a movie shoot in 1910.

J. Warren Lane, who had worked the old orchard as a horticulturist (introducing the wasp needed to pollinate Smyrna figs), was appointed a park commissioner in 1925.

Fossil remains of Pleistocene animals uncovered in the gravel wash have brought the conclusion that the springs were a prehistoric watering place.

[22][24] Contemporary listings of the amphitheater as a potential filming location describe a "large cement stage with exit tunnels on both sides.

A WPA laborer named Albert Dyer was arrested, tried and convicted for the triple slaying and executed by hanging at San Quentin prison on September 16, 1938.

[27] The fossils mentioned in the American Guide entry for Centinela Park were excavated by the USC Department of Geology in collaboration with the city of Inglewood in 1940.