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Chavez Ravine
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Before the Dodgers
Lost L.A.
Where Is Chavez Ravine, Exactly?
Post date:Dodger Stadium might have replaced the community known as Chavez Ravine, but the actual canyon still exists -- albeit anonymously.
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Dodger Stadium
Lost L.A.
They Moved Mountains to Build Dodger Stadium
Post date:Construction workers moved 8 million cubic yards of earth and rock, refashioning the rugged terrain once known as the Stone Quarry Hills into a modern sports palace fit for October baseball.
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parks
Lost L.A.
The Origins of Elysian Park
Post date:Elysian Park, one of L.A.'s oldest parks, exists today because its rugged land was considered worthless.
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Chavez Ravine
Lost L.A.
Chavez Ravine: Community to Controversial Real Estate
Post date:The site of Dodger Stadium was once home to the thriving Mexican-American community of Chavez Ravine.
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History
Lost L.A.
Los Angeles' 1943 War on the Zoot Suit
Post date:In June 1943, L.A. witnessed sailors coursing through the city streets in their Navy uniforms, carrying sticks and targeting anyone wearing a zoot suit.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Reading Poetry from L.A. to the Bay
Post date:For all the talk of rivalry and disdain between San Francisco and Los Angeles the two cities have far more in common than they do differences.
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green justice
History & Society
Green Justice Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom
Post date:With over 1,000 official cultural and historical landmarks in the City of Los Angeles, only about 100 relate to people of color, women, and Native Americans.
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AEG
SoCal Focus
L.A.'s Sports Business Gets Complicated
Post date:The Dodgers are back. The AEG and the NFL aren't talking. And the fans are waiting.
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Highland Park
Departures
Property Rights
Post date:Thanks to the lingering aftereffects of the New Deal and the post-WWII boom, development in Los Angeles was in full swing in the 1960s. A tidal wave of development would begin to rumble through the sleepy neighborhood.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Arrival Story: Noelle Reyes & Danell Hughes
Post date:My cousin, Danell Hughes, and I have explored every area of the city, we're familiar with everything. I think that's one of the reasons we're bonded so tight. We have four sets of grandparents between the two of us that opened the store [Mi Vida, locat...
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China
Departures
The First Wave: Canton to L.A.
Post date:The first wave of migration from China stretches from the age of the Californios to the creation of a new Los Angeles Chinatown in the 1930's.
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Chavez Ravine
Commentary
Pitch
Post date:The end is near. That's what my senses told me Sunday at Chavez Ravine.The Santa Ana winds retreated to hibernation. Many of the seats on the west side of the stadium were in the shade. No sizzling sunburns on this day.