Alfred Kelly; Elysian Park Recluse for Half a Century

Alfred (Al) Kelly, 87, a recluse who lived in Elysian Park near Dodger Stadium for nearly half a century. A 1988 article about his spare existence revealed that he got by each day by pedaling his worn bicycle to Griffith Park, where he picked up lost golf balls and resold them. He also sold aluminum cans for food money and lived mainly on the park’s hillsides, sleeping on a patch of carpet that he covered with blankets and a plastic tarp during inclement weather. In Elysian Park on April 20, it was learned last week.