Summary: Editor's Note: In celebration of the city’s upcoming Tricentennial, NolaVie and New Orleans Historical bring you the series Who Did it Better: New Orleans Then and Now . In it, we look at offbeat aspects of the city’s history and their parallels in the present. Today we go to City Park , in a segment we call A Walk in the Park. Celebration in the Oaks draws 165,000 visitors to City Park each holiday season. This year, it celebrates its 31 st anniversary. Beginning the weekend after Thanksgiving