Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine - a photo on Flickriver

Chavez Ravine is now the home of Dodger Stadium, which was built for the L.A. baseball team in 1962. In order to clear the land, the city evicted the mostly Mexican residents and buried their once bucolic community under a sea of asphalt, creating the stadium, with parking for 50,000 cars, and not a single place for children to play.

Chavez Ravine was a bucolic Latino community through the 1950s, until the City of Los Angeles forcibly evicted the residents with promises of affordable housing. The City authorized the sale of Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers for a stadium 50 years ago on October 7, 1957. The Dodgers promised to spend $500,000 on a recreation facility in the area but have never done so. Los Desterrados, the people who lost their homes and way of life at Chavez Ravine, still meet regularly to commemorate the community there. Judy Baca and SPARC's Great Wall of Los Angeles commemorate these events. Culture Clash revived the forgotten history of Chavez Ravine in their play of that name, as Ry Cooder did in his CD. Read the L.A. Times coverage of the 50th anniversary.

Taken in: United States / California / Los Angeles / Central City East

Taken on: July 25, 2007

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