Posted: July 7th, 2008

Fifty years ago this week, Los Angeles voters narrowly OK’d a ballot measure approving the city’s gift of land near Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers’ Walter O’Malley to build his stadium. Read the rest of this post at L.A. Observed.

The Times published detailed results of the Chavez Ravine ballot initiative that showed just how close the vote was. Read the rest of this post by Keith Thursby on the L.A. Times Daily Mirror blog.

Mrs. Aurora Archega, whose family had resided in Chavez Ravine for 36 years, refused to leave her home, and was carried out by the police with all of her belongings on May 9, 1959.

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