Chavez Ravine Research Paper
Chavez Ravine
INTRODUCTION
Have you ever been forced or bribed out of your own home? Did you ever feel so powerless? Many people in Los Angeles have felt that. When what I am about to tell you was explained to me, I thought it had happened in about 1910, but then I was astonished to hear that it was more recently, in the 1950’s.
Chavez Ravine was a small community in one of the busiest places in Los Angeles, it was in Downtown Los Angeles. Many people might now it now as Dodgers Stadium. That’s right, where professional now play baseball and hit home runs, was where many people grew up and formed part of their lives. It was a long, and ugly process, but what peoples homes was, then became Dodgers Stadium. Was it necessary to move …show more content…
I came across an article in Los Angeles Times, from October 2007. The name of the article is 50 Years Ago:Brooklyn To Los Angeles; The Play of the Land, by Steve Springer. It not only mentioned the plan of Chavez Ravine becoming Elysian Park, a housing project for low income families, but it also mentioned the person behind the planning of bringing major league baseball. Rosalind Wyman, a Los Angeles Council woman used the idea of bringing major league baseball in order to attract votes for City Council. This article made politics seem so uncouncious of the their surroundings, it seemed as if they didn’t care weather people had a place to live or not. It also showed me that Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers coach, was not aware of the situation in Chavez Ravine, and did not even plan on moving to Los Angeles, at least not by choice. “He put a lot of time and energy and money into it,” Peter O’Malley (Walter O’Malleys son) mentioned, “He gave it his best shot, but finally, I think he realized it was up. It was over. It wasn’t going to happen in
INTRODUCTION
Have you ever been forced or bribed out of your own home? Did you ever feel so powerless? Many people in Los Angeles have felt that. When what I am about to tell you was explained to me, I thought it had happened in about 1910, but then I was astonished to hear that it was more recently, in the 1950’s.
Chavez Ravine was a small community in one of the busiest places in Los Angeles, it was in Downtown Los Angeles. Many people might now it now as Dodgers Stadium. That’s right, where professional now play baseball and hit home runs, was where many people grew up and formed part of their lives. It was a long, and ugly process, but what peoples homes was, then became Dodgers Stadium. Was it necessary to move …show more content…
I came across an article in Los Angeles Times, from October 2007. The name of the article is 50 Years Ago:Brooklyn To Los Angeles; The Play of the Land, by Steve Springer. It not only mentioned the plan of Chavez Ravine becoming Elysian Park, a housing project for low income families, but it also mentioned the person behind the planning of bringing major league baseball. Rosalind Wyman, a Los Angeles Council woman used the idea of bringing major league baseball in order to attract votes for City Council. This article made politics seem so uncouncious of the their surroundings, it seemed as if they didn’t care weather people had a place to live or not. It also showed me that Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers coach, was not aware of the situation in Chavez Ravine, and did not even plan on moving to Los Angeles, at least not by choice. “He put a lot of time and energy and money into it,” Peter O’Malley (Walter O’Malleys son) mentioned, “He gave it his best shot, but finally, I think he realized it was up. It was over. It wasn’t going to happen in