There was no bull ring at the Bullring-myth number one among the so-called historians and docents at the Cornfields Park.

The story I got from old heads (1920's seniority dates...) was that there was a cattle watering station and they hired many local kids back before the turn of the 20th century to herd the cattle in and out of the rail cars to water them for the next stage of the trip-and the kids were using capes and lariats-hence the name "bullring".....

The Cornfields Park is not the Cornfields and was not named for a "corn field"--myth number two among latter day wannabee politically correct historians.

The Cornfield was up around the bend on the "old" main lines above the Bullring Shanty-(as opposed to the "Links" at the Bottom of the Bullring). The story I got on that was that it was the scene of a "cornfield" meet back in the 1880's when a train plowed into another on the old mainline up at the "Cornfield"-this is more part of today's Gold Line Yard. This was the end of the LA Terminal back then, before Taylor came in the 1920's.

Oh the stories I heard at the "Cornfield Park" from so-called "docents" about how the people at Olvera Street planted corn at the "cornfield", once? Maybe so, but that ain't got nothing to do with the name, it's a railroad term. And, it's not where the Park is located.

The main area of the developed "Cornfield Park" is actually in the "Links", with its "linkages" of dozens of puzzle switches, the ones in the scene of the trains in the movie Finnegan's Dream.......... That part backed up to the Old River Station and Freight house just north of Chinatown Station-where Sam's stand used to be.