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The rear of the facility faces the park.
 

City of Tampa David M. Barksdale Center for Active Adults at Macfarlane Park (formerly the Senior Center)

David Barksdale, a Tampa native, was from from Seminole Heights in Tampa.

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He began his long association with Tampa's recreation department in 1942 while in high school, sweeping courts at Sligh Avenue Park for $1 a week. That same year he graduated from Hillsborough High School and joined the Navy. He served on the battleship USS Maryland during World War II.

After the war he attended the University of Tampa on the G.I. Bill. While studying for his physical education major, he returned to the city recreation department, working as an umpire at the North Boulevard Recreation Center.

He met his future wife Frances, who was the center's playground director.

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Barksdale graduated from the University of Tampa in 1950 and married in 1952. By 1955 he worked his up to director of the recreation department. He oversaw constructi