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Title: Evictions clear way for stadium
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Several Chávez Ravine residents fought eviction, including Aurora Vargas, who vowed that, "they'll have to carry me [out]." L.A. County Sheriffs forcibly removed Vargas from her home. In this photo Mrs. Manuel Arechiga (mother of Aurora Vargas) and her two dogs are led away, as reporter Clete Roberts attempts to do an interview. Bulldozers then knocked over the few remaining dwellings; four months later, ground-breaking for Dodger Stadium began. Photo dated: May 8, 1959.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043339
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Clete Roberts.
CARL0000048956
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15256
Subject: Roberts, Clete
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office
Eviction--California--Los Angeles
Television journalists--California--Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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