Zilker Metropolitan Park turns 100 this year, and quite a few things have changed since 1917 when philanthropist Andrew Jackson Zilker donated the park's land to the City of Austin. To commemorate the park's centennial, we've picked out some historical photos of Zilker from the last hundred years and tried to match them as closely as possible to the present day.
The main field at Zilker, pictured here sometime in the 1910s, looks remarkably similar to the present day view. We spoke with . . .