The Battle Over Chavez Ravine

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Vicente Montalvo's grandparents grew up and fell in love in Palo Verde, one of the neighborhoods that make up a community known as Chavez Ravine. In the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravine was the perfect site to build public housing. So the residents were forced to sell their homes under the city's use of eminent domain. But the election of a new mayor, would end up canceling those plans, and instead the land would become what many know today as Dodger Stadium.

This segment was originally aired in 2017.

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0:00.0	FUTURO MUTUR From Futura Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Nofosa. Today, the battle over Chavez
0:17.7	ravine in Los Angeles.
0:20.3	As baseball season is in full swing, we thought you would enjoy this episode which we first aired in 2017.
0:40.0	What you're hearing is from an electric game at Dodger Stadium in the 2018 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox.
0:44.6	The Dodgers went on to lose the World Series, but fans lived an unforgettable experience
0:49.6	watching the games from the stadium. But often when you're taking in the game.
0:52.5	But often when you're taking in the game, you're not thinking about the decades-old history of
0:57.7	the stadium, especially for example, an iconic one like Dodger Stadium. So for some deeper history on the home of the
1:05.8	Los Angeles Dodgers here's producer Janice Hamoca. So have you been to a game?
1:10.8	I was I've been to two games one when I was like nine in Chicago and then
1:16.5	one like 10 years ago at Yankee Stadium. Well as an Angelino I've been to Dodger Stadium
1:22.4	it's up on a hill it's surrounded by palm trees. As an Angelino, I've been to Dodger Stadium.
1:22.6	It's up on a hill, it's surrounded by palm trees, it has a ton of parking lots,
1:26.8	and it has one of the best views of downtown LA.
1:29.9	And the Dodgers have a ton of Latino fans, especially Mexican fans.
1:33.8	And a lot of it had to do with Fernando Mania.
1:35.8	Fernando Valenzuela has opened the 1981 season with a shotout.
1:41.0	So Fernando Valenzuela, the superstar rookie, he was a kid from Mexico, Sonora Mexico,
1:46.2	and he led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series in 1981.
1:50.4	Fernando was super intense. And the legend of Fernando becomes known to all the world,
1:56.0	Todo El Mundo.
1:58.0	My dad, like I said, came during the Fernando mania.
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