Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989. Construction of Dodger Stadium, built for $23 million, the first privately financed Major League Baseball stadium since Yankee Stadium was built in the 1920s. According to the Herald-Examiner's Morton Moss, Chávez Ravine had turned into a "vast monument of multi-colored steel concrete and terraced asphalt surrounding a barbered acreage of scalloped greenery." Dated March 11, 1962.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
O'Malley, Walter,--1903-1979 Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) Baseball team owners--United States Baseball--California--Los Angeles Baseball fields--California--Los Angeles Cranes, derricks, etc.--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Building construction--California--Los Angeles Baseballs--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Stadiums--California--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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