It was opened in 1925 and named for Alvin S. Moody, a local Democratic politician.
A public swimming pool was installed in 1953 and the baseball diamonds were added from the 1940s through 1977.
[1] Sculptor Luis A. Jimenez’s fiberglass installation “The Vaquero” was erected in 1978.
The protests turned to riot and led to more than forty arrests, a dozen hospitalizations, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage to businesses and police vehicles.
In 2013, construction of the expanded METRORail red line began, with operations beginning on December 21, 2013.