Woman 63, stands in ruins of home to defy Dodgers and Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
May 9, 1959 1959-05-09
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Dept of Special Collections/UCLA Library, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, 405 Hilgard Ave, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575; http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/ Published in: Los Angeles, Calif
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Photograph caption: Upper left, Mrs. Glen Walters, previously evicted from her home in Chavez ravine near downtown Los Angeles, is handcuffed but still shouting at police as they bodily evict a neighbor Saturday. The ravine, mostly filled with small very old houses, is the site of the proposed Los Angeles Dodgers baseball park. Houses there were condemned and acquired by the city Photograph caption: Below, some of the Chavez Ravine evictees search the rubble of their former home Saturday at the site of the proposed baseball stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The house was demolished by a bulldozer after its occupants and furnishings were removed Friday by deputy sheriffs. Upper left background is a tent in which some of them spent the night in protest against the eviction. Men at left are reporters. (AP wirephoto)
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century Eviction--California--Los Angeles Roybal, Edward Ross, 1916- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) Arechiga family
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