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How Los Angeles destroyed a community and built a ballpark on top of it.
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Before Dodger Stadium, LA had Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop - three neighborhoods that made up a thriving, predominantly Mexican American community in an area known as Chavez Ravine.
But in the late 1940s, the city marked that area as “blighted,” setting the stage for a decade-long battle by residents to preserve the community against threats of eviction. Ultimately, the city forced out residents with little to no compensation, clearing the way for the future baseball stadium.
The result is a complicated legacy, a story that's often missing from the history of Los Angeles, and for some, hard questions about what it means to be a fan of the LA Dodgers. Through interviews with several former residents of the area, this episode of Missing Chapter explores the story of the neighborhoods cleared to make way for the future chosen by the city.
Note: The headline on this video has been updated.
Previous headline: Dodger Stadium’s violent origin story
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For more on Chavez Ravine’s history, check out the oral history and archival project, An Unfinished Story: www.chavezravinela.com/home
Buried Under the Blue:
www.buriedundertheblue.com/
Eric Nusbaum’s book, Stealing Home:
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Eric Avila’s article, “Revisiting the Chavez Ravine”: link.springer.com/chapter/10....
Don Normark’s photo book:
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Code Switch’s article on Chavez Ravine: www.npr.org/sections/codeswit...
99 Percent Invisible’s podcast: 99percentinvisible.org/episod...
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@Vox 3 года назад

Have an idea for a story we should investigate for Missing Chapter? Tell us! bit.ly/2RhjxMy

@zwqaslol7626 3 года назад

Lol

@noobatthetower8747 3 года назад

Plz investigate on why stone

@dunarayb 3 года назад

Ethnic reassignment in Jerusalem and Hebron, Palestine 1976-2021

@yandhisfinest 3 года назад

Asian stuff

@sarssars-hm2ox 3 года назад

Yeah when the rail roads and slaves where being built. Thoses where only black and china people what happen to all the indians or Mexicans. That's a big gap that never made since in school or any movie or book. Never mentioned a brown colored person. Or has it?

@N8Burn 3 года назад

The most upsetting thing about this is the size of the parking. Imagine giving up your livelihood for a parking space.

@theJMBgamer 3 года назад

That parking lot is big enough to fit 10 copies of the actual stadium. It goes to show that the stadium really had no chance of reinvigorating the "blighted" local community, since most people going to see a game would commute from the suburbs to this giant parking lot, without ever stepping foot near any of the local shops or restaurants.

@HelgaCavoli 3 года назад

American dream. For white.

@mattpytlak 3 года назад

Look up Kelo v. New London. They destroyed a neighborhood to build an office park except the financing never came through and now it’s just a dirt lot.

@dodger7111 3 года назад

Yes, a parking lot is needed to prevent massive traffic. A stadium in the middle of LA would be a nightmare. No one would want to live that close to it anyway.

@piast99 3 года назад

@@dodger7111 How the parking lot prevents the traffic? Parked cars have to be driven to and from it, haven't they? If there was no parking everyone would have to use subway, train, whatever, and the car traffic would not increase.

@OfficialDisneyFan421 3 года назад

I’m thankful that as a high school student in LA county, my history teacher made sure ALL of his students learned and were aware of this tragedy.

@itsdiegonovelozo7937 3 года назад

sounds like a great teacher

@goochfitness26 3 года назад

Amazing teacher

@babymitch9897 3 года назад

Same

@barak-rocky-giles2081 3 года назад

I'm mad that mine didn't (also an LA native)...

@markhemsworth2670 3 года назад

Yet history repeated itself again in 2020 with a new stadium

@jaker721 3 года назад

So, the people of the Chavez Ravine did everything they were "supposed" to do in a capitalist society. Own property, businesses, start a family, etc. Their reward? Forced eviction.

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

Indeed. There are many such stories in American history. Neighbourhoods that did well for themselves destroyed by more powerful business interests, and usually they were inhabited by people of colour. Greenwood Tulsa springs to mind

@D_isco_D_ancer 3 года назад

That "capitalist" society only works for whites.

@OnasaD 2 года назад

“If it’s not white, it’s not right” -The Government Clearly the government ran by why whites did everything in their power to stop other racial ethnicity’s from thriving and making Caucasian people look bad

@kevsan7482 2 года назад

It’s only the American dream as long as you’re white, if you’re not white it’s hard to grab the American dream

@67marlins81 2 года назад

@@D_isco_D_ancer That's the dumbest statement on the post. You obviously know nothing about laws regulating starting a business- a perfect example of reverse discrimination that evidently you've unbelievably never heard of.

@Mr47qwertyuiop 3 года назад

That grandma was so dissapointed in her grandsons final words lol! She thinks hes soft. All the abuse she went through and he still out here simpin for the Dodger's.

@erikarmendariz19 3 года назад

And she should say it

@gaggita9922 3 года назад

She's the one that was made to move not him. Now whos the soft one.

@syndiccalls9965 3 года назад

@@gaggita9922 Ahhhhh Shaddap

@hpsmash77 2 года назад

fkin simps

@charlieseafood 2 года назад

Typical Dodgers fan smdh

@chelseal8448 3 года назад

Missing Chapter is maybe my favorite Vox series

@laMoria 3 года назад

It's also the most distressing one ...

@robbieaulia6462 3 года назад

I guess you like depressing stories

@marlone6497 3 года назад

Mine is Vox Borders, Atlas and Darkroom

@grugamersriseup7299 3 года назад

Mine is def borders sad they cancelled it though

@DaGreat7 3 года назад

@@grugamersriseup7299 WHAT! They actually cancelled it? When ?😭

@alexanderherrera5569 3 года назад

As an urban and regional planning student, ive learned about so many stories just like this one and the story of Chavez Ravine being one of the most well known case study of injustice done by a city. Unfortunately this still happens, and the fact that you mentioned the SoFi stadium at the end has earned much respect from me. Ever since the plans for the stadium in Inglewood became official, waves of gentrification hit local communities due to real estate investors, house flippers and foreign investors. Now we have a new case study of injustices being rained down on those already struggling. Sadly, the pandemic fueled the pace in which gentrification was already moving rapidly. Another great video Vox.

@snowstrobe 3 года назад

Happens a lot when the Olympics comes to town.

@Rextraordinaire 3 года назад

@@snowstrobe Yup, this story will unfortunately repeat itself over the next few years as LA begins preparations to host in 2028. Chicago saved itself and its' residents a lot of trouble in not winning the bid to host the games in 2016

@rndmkngsfn 3 года назад

But Sofi and Dodger Stadium aren’t exactly the same. I agree, the gentrification around the new stadium is bad will take advantage of the community, but the stadium itself didn’t tear down anyone’s housing. It was built on the site of a horse track. The way the video puts it implies that its problems of displacement are almost on the same level as dodger stadium.

@luodeligesi7238 3 года назад

@@rndmkngsfn yeah, this video is very disingenuous in the way it implies that SoFi was built on land forcibly taken away from people like Dodgers Stadium, when in reality it was built on a mix of empty land and an old racetrack.

@secularmonk5176 3 года назад

5:47 Interesting juxtaposition of arguments ... affordable housing requires high density rental units; low density homeownership is the suburban model that social critics like the writers at Vox usually claim is capitalism exacerbating economic inequity 6:07 "We were homeowners, and we had affordable housing" ... at low density ... apparently, defending low-density homeownership is OK if the residents' skin is dark enough? 6:54 I concur that low-balling a minority community because they lack political power, THAT is wrong. But the principle of eminent domain, and the argument for using it to increase population density with the goal of more affordable housing ... that is valid 7:50 And then, Vox pivots again, to claim opposition to high density housing is elitist ... if the opponents are white, apparently 10:24 "violently evicted" ... laying hands on those who resist government edict is a CENTRAL role of the police ... I don't see violence, I see a procedurally sound police action (with unjust origins) 12:07 I'm encouraged that at least this modicum of nuance may indicate that the fever is breaking on late 2010s identity politics absolutism ... I can only hope

@maddiesanabria5047 3 года назад

Thank you for covering this. My step family lived in Chavez Ravine and we attend the reunion picnic every year (except 2020 it was cancelled). Every year more of the original residents are dying of old age and it's so important for us to carry on their stories.

@packerfanbd1995 3 года назад

This is just tragic. Thank you for bringing this story to light.

@NYLFR 3 года назад

It’s ironic because the stadium where Dodgers had played (Ebbets Field) was replaced by government subsidized housing

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman In NYC? I dunno. Affordable housing there is desperately needed. Most cities desperately need _affordable_ housing, because it's more profitable to build high end housing.

@chanceDdog2009 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman would you be willing to give up your home at a loss to build a stadium ?

@minorcek 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman so the answer in no, you wouldnt like it because it is wrong

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman Stadium jobs are usually going to be majority part time and low wage.

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman ...Look. I can see the government using eminent domain for needed projects. But in this case, they used eminent domain _on the behalf of a private business._ So, the rich have the right to deprive you of your personal property, that being your home, for a pittance or nothing at all, in order for themselves to make money. Is that the country you want to live in? Because you do.

@emndz9995 3 года назад

This is truly sad, the more you know, the more you wish you didn’t know

@23StudiosSports 3 года назад

Ignorance is bliss

@HopeRock425 3 года назад

Not really I am happy that I know this because otherwise it would be burried and forgotten.

@HopeRock425 3 года назад

@@23StudiosSports I'd disagree.

@jhoang861 3 года назад

@@HopeRock425 i totally agree with you. Never disregard history. ✌️

@ShawnLH88 3 года назад

That’s what happens when you learn about white america

@juanjosecardenasramirez9844 3 года назад

The american government really said “things are going TOO well for the mexicans”

@artavishawkins6100 3 года назад

The blacks too bro

@redditstop1653 3 года назад

@@artavishawkins6100 black wall street

@samrawitkenfe2876 2 года назад

like the video said, the American gov didn’t go to Chavez Ravine with the intention to go like "oh I’m gonna ruin the Mexicans established communities” The American gov, like the video said, wanted to build their plans without the intention of ever considering how it would affect other people, and didn’t care enough to discontinue with their plans. As a result, Chavez Ravine was hurt severely

@jb-eq6no 2 года назад

@@samrawitkenfe2876 yeah there are people who think that they set out to hurt the community (they did anyway) but the goal was making the stadium and making that part of the city full of buildings, the neighborhoods that got destroyed were collateral damage

@arvindhmani06 2 года назад

@@samrawitkenfe2876 Maybe so, but it's impossible to imagine an entire community in LA that would be affected like this if it was mainly white people living in it

@davidcamacho2467 3 года назад

I have family members who will not go for the Dodgers because of what happened at Chávez Ravine and go for the Angels instead. I’m a Dodger fan myself but I think it is important for Chicano excellence that this story and others like it be told

@4v64 3 года назад

@Aaron Friedman Chicano is a term used to describe a Mexican-American

@MiguelGG03 3 года назад

Totally agree, but might wanna tell your family that when Chavez Ravine first opened in 1962 it was the home for both the Dodgers and Angels. Looks like the Angels didn’t care much about the history at the Ravine neither. Just saying.

@theDavidChannel1 3 года назад

@@MiguelGG03 good point lol

@MiguelGG03 3 года назад

@Ramen Lover Oh I know it was temporary. Still doesn’t change the fact that both clubs ignored the issues at the Ravine. Angels could have refused and used the coliseum for those 4-5 years.

@joeyclemenza7339 3 года назад

As a strong and proud Chicano and dodger fan myself... this is a VERY hard part of Dodger history i've had to reconcile with. However, I think the end of the video says it perfectly... the Chicana/o community have managed to take back this team in the name of pride. It was even poetic justice that a Mexican like Julio Urias notch the final out of the 2020 World Series, bringing the title back to LA. I grew up with Dodger Stadium being something like a shrine to me... but also to this day, treat it as a memorial for those Mexican-Americans it displaced. I think it's important that all Chicana/o fans of the Dodgers know the history of this stadium as well.

@thefifthhour45 3 года назад

That's an outrageously sized car park.

@DaveWraptastic 3 года назад

It's America, nobody uses public transportation for anything.

@RainierKine 3 года назад

Welcome to America!

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

Middle class people in the US actually seem to fear public transit for racist/classist reasons. I used that slash because the racism is probably there, but the vast majority of American people won't admit it. The classism is more apparent; they'll assert poor people will get on public transit and come rob their house. I picture someone trying to get a lawnmower, toolbox, and TV onto a trolley... on camera...

@lick3227 3 года назад

Americans have phobias of public transport essentially

@cheddaz86 3 года назад

Q: How many cars could you get one one homeplot? A: 💵💵💵

@amandadane868 3 года назад

It’s painfully ironic because the Dodgers used to be a Brooklyn baseball team before they were moved to LA in the 1950s. My uncle (who grew up in Brooklyn at the time) told me that decision wasn’t popular with local residents.

@andrewr3362 3 года назад

Yep Ebbets Field. Nothing but Apartments buildings now.

@americayeagermeister 3 года назад

Oh it never is popular with the locals when their team relocates

@DPowered2 3 года назад

plus it was a part of ruining many minority lives

@mattpytlak 3 года назад

Bernie Sanders says the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn was a huge turning point in his life.

@robberonbrent 3 года назад

Woooow very insightful comment

@martinc.720 3 года назад

“This is America, the land of the free. Just go be free somewhere else.” 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@martinc.720 3 года назад

@@googlewhyforwardfaqforward4076 Exactly. Even then.

@gcgcgcg 3 года назад

Liberty and justice for all... "Hey, get out of your home now so we can destroy it on front of you. This is where home plate is gonna be"

@pokemasterx4244 3 года назад

@@googlewhyforwardfaqforward4076 white people aren't free wym

@Jedii906 3 года назад

Some random white person dies we don’t start pro testing

@Jedii906 3 года назад

@@googlewhyforwardfaqforward4076 cause we don’t need to

@MathieuVuitton37 3 года назад

Missing Chapter is rivaling Borders to be the best series created by Vox. Amazing work

@NickolasRoedel 3 года назад

Ouch, I miss Borders :(

@josephnormyle28 3 года назад

Dark room is also a top series.

@wesleyrm76 3 года назад

I love Ear Worm.

2 года назад

Atlas is also very good.

@isaacninan5053 3 года назад

Missing Chapter has got to be the best series on Vox. It would be cool if yall could eventually do an episode on something international too

@thedenskan3440 3 года назад

Supposedly, that would be Borders. I miss that series.

@harrymullin 3 года назад

@@thedenskan3440 Johnny Harris left Vox, so sadly Borders is not coming back. You can check out his channel for some cool stories like this about both the US and other countries.

@thedenskan3440 3 года назад

@@harrymullin Funny enough, I'm watching his newest video. I know Borders shall rest now and I have come to terms with that. Rest sweet prince.

@jakmanxyom 3 года назад

@@thedenskan3440 No, Borders is too general; Darkroom series seems more appropriate for "dark international history", methinks.

@thedenskan3440 3 года назад

@@jakmanxyom I do recognize that, Borders was more of a general story on how borders defined currwnt events. It nonetheless got me hooked on geography and haven't been the same since.

@jazzyj6640 3 года назад

only greed and evilness will drive someone to literally throw people out of their homes and then steal the land from them. So freaking hurtful

@jnyerere 3 года назад

Me watching this video like "Yup. That's how they are. That's what they do." This is not an LA story. This is an America story. And as evident with SoFi, they haven't missed a step.

@ambrosia417 2 года назад

Very true. All major metro areas have this story -- NYC, DC, Miami, to name a few. It's painful to bear witness years later.

@Loveismyteacher 2 года назад

Preach

@dario110011 2 года назад

@@ambrosia417 Miami too? What's the history of this area?

@ambrosia417 2 года назад

@@dario110011 This doc on Amazon: The Black Miami

@slopez6258 2 года назад

All true except Sofi was built over Hollywood Park Racetrack 🤷🏽‍♂️

@QuantumNoir 2 года назад

I live in Tucson, Arizona. Back in the day, a big chunk of downtown was bulldozed in a similar fashion as Dodgers stadium. It was a historic and thriving Mexican American community which was turned into one of the currently most out of date convention centers in the country.

@iceebluu3572 3 года назад

That's why Fernando Valenzuela is so iconic, Mexicans wanted nothing to do with the team until 1981 when Fernandomania happened

@YourBunsKid 3 года назад

Yeah if it wasn’t for him, the Dodgers fan base could’ve been made up of barely any Mexicans. I’m glad FernandoMania came because Mexicans know how to celebrate at sports

@douglaslowe5 2 года назад

It's ironic..Mexicans justifiably boycotted for years what is now lovingly called Doyer Stadium.

@ActsDriven 2 года назад

Not true. My parents were born in Mexico and I grew up going to Dodgers games in the early 60's. This video makes this a racial thing - it's not. When someone gets wealthy at the expense of others (this videos point), it's about greed.

@douglaslowe5 2 года назад

@@ActsDriven I'm curious if your parents were in LA in the late 40s and 50s? My dad was and he hated The Dodgers ( even though the residents were displaced with or without them) Most people today aren't even aware of the history Arechiva Gulch.

@gravscool 3 года назад

“latinx” bro what

@Rysander1 3 года назад

Funny how it's just more white people telling people how to talk. They don't even realize the irony of their colonization.

@GerMar90 Год назад

They had me until I heard that term. These youngsters trying to fight ethnocide by using the very terms the liberal whites give us.

@annettedflores 3 года назад

My mother’s Dolores Leon,she’s telling a story that we’ve been told all our lives. My father/brother went on to fight for our country but my grandfather who owned homes,bars on or near CR died young and never fully recovered from this! We are his legacy.

@Adam-dd5fx 3 года назад

He never fully recovered from death?

@jicao 3 года назад

Stop lying you aren’t even subscribed to this Chanel how could she be your mother

@joesandoval3741 3 года назад

You stink,that isn’t your mother

@gopher6532 3 года назад

@@RollerBladingSuxs how tf do you know

@gopher6532 3 года назад

@@joesandoval3741 how tf do you know

@carlaeyyy649 3 года назад

I've said this before, historically everytime I see a thriving minority community, somehow someway it gets destroyed. The pattern is astonishing

@sofakingonmynuts1438 3 года назад

Cant have society being to successful, you will lose control

@applesyrupgaming 3 года назад

yes, and during the 2020 riots, minority owned businesses were looted.

@laneythelame 3 года назад

Minority means it's easier to take advantage of these communities so im actually not astonished, it isnt right but makes perfect sense

@mooskanate 2 года назад

@@applesyrupgaming In Beverly Hills and Santa Monica?

@mooskanate 2 года назад

@Carlaeyyy Chavez Ravine was not a thriving minority community, unless you have a different definition of thriving.

@mnf2139 3 года назад

Citizens Against Social Housing = CASH Does this feel familiar?

@MysticKenji2 3 года назад

it's like something out of a novel

@TheMrProboscis 3 года назад

And then they blamed everything on socialism when it had nothing to do with it. Sounds about right.

@d.b.4671 3 года назад

And to top it all off, the city went on to fund the stadium with public money. I'd love to hear what the people at CASH thought of that.

@theamateurobserver 2 года назад

Cash sounds like trump

@kscott6378 3 года назад

This is so sad. Thank you for sharing this story. It sounds similar to the story of Central Park in New York being made.

@pokemasterx4244 3 года назад

Yeah you're right, although that one was a lot simpler

@peripateticmind8461 3 года назад

I'm so grateful for this series. It outrages me that all these tragedies were probably not considered important or "big" enough to make it into our textbooks, but their ramifications are still so important to this day :(

@mindhunter91 3 года назад

There's so much in this world I don't know. Thanks to the internet for making me realise that.

@CTEagleCeltic 3 года назад

Shame... NY Central Park has the same history... Tulsa’s is even worse.

@iainronald4217 3 года назад

It's so interesting growing up and realizing that all the "big, dangerous slums" and "bad parts of town" we were warned about are minority communities viewed through the tinted glasses of systemic racism. One of my favourite things is to go in these areas, socialize, learn from the people, eat at their restaurants.

@rubenaj9716 3 года назад

F*O*R** M*O*R*E** G*U*I*D*A*N*C*E** W*H*A*T*S*A*P*P**** **+1**2**6**9**8**1**5**6**4**5**5

@brianarbenz7206 3 года назад

Same with me, Iain. I have gone to my hometown's black sections to be a visitor, shopper, restaurant customer. Other whites don't get it.

@iainronald4217 3 года назад

@@brianarbenz7206 the small town I’m originally from became a hub for immigration, our Filipino population went from 0.4% to 34% in under a decade. So, naturally, I knew quite a lot of Filipino people, was invited to their family events. Wherever I move, the first area I feel comfortable is the Filipino area. In my city, just this year, I found a kickass Jamaican place too, I love eating there!

@brianarbenz7206 3 года назад

@@iainronald4217 I'm in Louisville, Ky., where until about the 1980s, the African-American community was largely all the non-white portion of our city. I worked as a news reporter for a mainstream newspaper, then a progressive paper and fell in love with the Black neighborhoods I learned about on my beats. I was hanging out in them long before the Breona Taylor killing was the focus. Since the '80s, Louisville has become very multi-racial and multi-lingual. Louisville, like the nation as a whole, has lost job opportunities, affordable housing and the meth and heroin are everywhere, but the diversity has been wonderful.

@brianarbenz7206 3 года назад

@@rubenaj9716 I think your cat has been walking on your keyboard.

@GordonWrigley 3 года назад

"Dodgers are here to stay, they are LAs team" they used to be NYC's team until the billionaire owner got a better offer.

@metrofilmer8894 3 года назад

The Yankees are definitely NY’s team now though

@actormanic 3 года назад

No, they were Brooklyn's team, not NYC's. NYC's teams were the Yankees and the Giants. The Giants moved to San Francisco the same year the Dodgers moved to LA. The Mets were created to replace the Giants. Nobody has ever replaced the Dodgers in NY.

@actormanic 3 года назад

@@metrofilmer8894 And the Yankees were NY's team then too. The Dodgers were Brooklyn's team.

@erikarmendariz19 3 года назад

@@actormanic I feel like the point is that all of that doesn't matter lol. Like this "identity" that baseball teams carry isn't real. People are attaching identity to a thing that is loyal to nothing except the whims of capitalism.

@GTAVictor9128 3 года назад

As a European, it would be so weird if European football clubs could just casually relocate to another city. For us, it's something unfathomable since the city is part of the club's identity and history.

@mazo691 3 года назад

Thank you so much for collecting these voices, images, and perspectives on Chavez Ravine.

@_mishimoshi_ 3 года назад

I remember reading a photography book I found in my class in hs about people who lived in these neighborhoods. Broke my heart, but wasn't really surprised learning about what happened.

@doyledean2763 3 года назад

Great video. I grew up near there and was a Dodger fan. I was told that only one family lived in Chavez Ravine and they became massively rich by selling the land to the Dodgers. I never knew this story.

@HVACSoldier 3 года назад

@Doyle Dean That’s what the politicians want you to believe.

@caclax11 Год назад

@@HVACSoldier touché

@dirrrrrrr 3 года назад

They did a similar thing to the Los Angeles Convention center in the 70s my dad said that he and his mother lived around the convention center and they were forced to move out of the space

@moderncricketer 3 года назад

Terrific series, keep up the excellent work! Would love to see more international focused episodes as well!

@OasisMusicOfficial 3 года назад

As a second generation Latin American in LA, the Dodger stadium is incredibly iconic. However, the story is still really depressing

@eddiecruz1532 3 года назад

Inglewood resident here and I am afraid this is what the future of Inglewood holds.

@tanyacastaneda6264 2 года назад

I am a LA Dodger's fan but I will admit this is great journalism and great presentation. One thing I would change about this is the historian saying "LatinX." It's Latino/a!

@carlosrincon1551 2 года назад

Thank you!!

@joeyclemenza7339 3 года назад

Julio Urias, the man who notched the final out of the 2020 world series... is not only a Mexican player revered by the country of Mexico, but by Chicana/os all across the nation. Our love for the Dodgers is so very touchy and complex... that yeah, Chavez Ravine holds a dark past, but also encapsulates beloved memories in time and across multiple generations. It's just a really hard past to come to terms with.

@erikarmendariz19 3 года назад

Mexican identity is violent; Mexico is also a colonial-capitalist state. Only in the shadow US imperialism can Mexico seem like it has some activist potential.

@seankiesling2054 5 месяцев назад

Now he's a criminal

@howdy111 3 года назад

Vox never really disappoints in presentation, narration. Can understand the work behind this. And these are the contents that we needed. On how past is demolished to build the future. Well done.

@tecpaocelotl 3 года назад

I'm glad you brought this story.

@jorgedoe2227 3 года назад

I’ve talked about this multiple times and was called a liar, thank you for bringing it to light.

@JimGamingTV 3 года назад

you should just rename, “Missing Chapter,” to “America Being More Racist Than We Were Originally Taught”

@hwwh8145 2 года назад

@@ASS_ault you've conveniently ignored the segregation, red-lining and literal clauses that stated only whites could own homes and land.... And they just so happened to do it again in a non-white area. It amazes me how racists can skip over basic facts/history.

@siderilegreshileyi57 2 года назад

All of their missing chapter videos I mean all of them is about the missing part of American racist history and it's legacy! It's not about missing history other than racism in their videos. 🤔

@projectc.j.j3310 2 года назад

Not really…. This was the 60s. If this surprises u Probably nothing about history

@jieliang 2 года назад

@@ASS_ault you think only white people can be racist?

@ifanismail6564 3 года назад

Public housing as "communistic"... I can't even...

@Empr4evr 2 года назад

The truly sad part is the attitude toward public houing has barely changed, and its detractors would use many of the same arguments and talking points today.

@williamwrede9192 3 года назад

Never ever ever EVER stop this series :) please..

@alvanosm 3 года назад

Never knew anything about this. Was very interesting! Thanks for the work VOX.

@Logh0s 3 года назад

Missing Chapter and Borders will always be my favorite series...

@toddkobelljr.2004 3 года назад

Kid: They are southern California's team Me, a Padres fan: WHO'S TEAM?

@silversan9743 3 года назад

It is just so strange that a team just moves 2.800 miles like it is no big deal in the US. All the old Fans heve no way to come in the stadion again as if the team didn`t care about fans as long as money would flow.

@lukefruits1066 2 года назад

I mean, it's true....

@toddkobelljr.2004 2 года назад

@Ramen Lover trust me, I try to avoid it like the plague.

@Sweet.Delirium 3 года назад

That's f*cked up 😠😔

@Grantonioful 3 года назад

Love this series! Keep it up :)

@JulianGuevaraphoto 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing this

@jagenv 2 года назад

"Who bares the cost for change?" that was deep

@96cespinoza 3 года назад

This is similar to most neighborhoods that got torn down when the interstates came to be

@kaylawilliams7606 3 года назад

thank you for sharing this story!

@nivlacgaming9211 3 года назад

Very informative, thank you!

@melreslor2114 3 года назад

Don Normark’s photographs are a telling story of the area pre-Dodger Stadium. Chávez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story is Normark’s history and art book released in 1999. Normark was a photography student around 20 years old at the time and took photos of the residents and property, getting to meet many of the people there. My country library had a copy of the book, so I read through the book several years ago.

@ansonpanton6984 3 года назад

My high school history teacher taught us all about this. Shout out to Mr Manghera 🤘🏾🤘🏾

@adriancooper78 3 года назад

Wow!!! Shaking my head in disbelief. Wow!!!! What an injustice!!

@nope2075 3 года назад

Wow. I had no idea. Thank you for sharing.

@ryanleethomas 3 года назад

Reminds me a lot of the Duranguito neighborhood in El Paso, Texas. There was a push for a ballpark four years ago, which was built nearby, but this neighborhood is also targeted continually for spurring development.

@laneythelame 3 года назад

Sad that we can probably all find an example of this happening in our own areas

@bluelotusnanebi 3 года назад

That was just absolutely heartbreaking I’m hopeful that Dodgers will eventually face its stadium history, and will make sure that the history of the district is known. Might name parts of the stadium after historic streets or something, there are many ways. It won’t solve it, but it will be a great gesture.

@johnnycage1057 2 года назад

Face what. It was the LA politics that’s to blame not the Dodgers organization

@jamestopic2880 3 года назад

The story is very sad, but I really liked the video itself. Especially the news articles

@nnmartin94 3 года назад

I just cannot IMAGINE the government going to a white neighborhood and giving them half the cost of their property to move out. The Karens would merge into a super-karen and ask to see the manager of the planet before that could happen. This stuff only happens to the disenfranchised.

@projectc.j.j3310 2 года назад

How tf do I think any cities start😂 small settlements then skyscrapers and gov buildings forcing people to move further. Literally happened to everyone

@jackieflores9270 2 года назад

oh man the 710 freeway history. they made it all the way up to south Pasadena, burrowing through low income neighborhoods, but as soon as they got to the whites in S.P, full stop to construction. worst part was that they made through the wealthy black neighborhood, but could not get even close to the white

@CurtisDensmore1 2 года назад

It happens.

@sor3999 3 года назад

Why blame the Dodgers over this when it was the housing project that enacted eminent domain in the first place.

@jefflewis4 3 года назад

Because the Dodgers are a convenient scapegoat, they are still here. All but a few of the original 1,800 families had been gone for years before the Dodgers got involved.

@jefflewis4 3 года назад

@@yokes1497 I'm not sure why you need an reply, in general we are not in disagreement. However the LA referendum was passed in 1958 for the purposes of giving the land to the Dodgers. At the time of the referendum there were still about 20 families living in Chavez Ravine The city did evict those last 20 families for the expresss purpose of forcing them out to build Dodger stadium. So to say the Dodgers had nothing to do with it is not correct. Though it is true the Dodgers role was minor as (like I said) most of the 1,800 families were gone years before the Dodgers got involved.

@loelco8162 2 года назад

@@yokes1497 Spin it the Way that makes you feel good The Truth Always Hurts

@trenauldo 2 года назад

Does anyone here not wonder if the Dodgers’ owner at the time had any clue about how the city of LA came into possession of the land it offered to the organization? I can’t believe it was unknown to O’Malley that LA had recently displaced those families from that land, and I say that because the practice of rustling people off of land was a whole lot more accepted in the ‘50s. There’s no way that the Dodger organization doesn’t bear some blame for that. That’s like buying a stolen car from a fence, and then claiming you didn’t know it was stolen when you get busted for grand theft.

@joshmontes3439 2 года назад

@@jefflewis4 I feel like the city is on the hook for this but the Dodgers should’ve compensated the few remaining families. If they never then it’s not too late to compensate the families that are still alive.

@pkflyers 3 года назад

I lived in So Cal all my life and didn't know about this. Always thought it was an empty mountain range at the time. Sadly, i'm not surprised it wasnt

@trumpetperson11 3 года назад

Eminent Domain is a blight on society, and its truly astonishing that it is still legal. Its like these lawmakers never learned about conflict of interest. 'Lets have our people figure out how little we can pay you to avoid suit'. Lets completely disregard the cost of moving, job relocation, and other hardship, not to mention always low balled property value.

@_yungjay 3 года назад

I didnt know anything about this an hr ago. Now....Ill never forget

@dxmnnndanny2092 3 года назад

Sounds like to me the Los Angeles Dodgers owe some compensation and reparations to Mexicans.

@ariswerdlow1411 3 года назад

the team is so popular among Mexicans. The compensation is years of great Mexican players and Mexicans for the most part have forget about it.

@dxmnnndanny2092 3 года назад

@@ariswerdlow1411 Dolores and myself amongst millions of other Mexicans feel differently.

@machineandshaman 3 года назад

No. No, they don’t.

@hiphoprbloverjon9180 3 года назад

@@dxmnnndanny2092 Lol too bad there's millions of Mexicans in LA that outweigh all of that including myself.

@dxmnnndanny2092 3 года назад

@@hiphoprbloverjon9180 sure Jon

@4071816 3 года назад

It might sound un-related, but stories like Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to LA is one of the reasons why European football fans hated their american owners

@theredraven 2 года назад

I doubt most European football fans even know the first thing about how the Dodgers ended up in LA.

@LucidLucifer13 3 года назад

Think you could tag your different vox series to make em easier to browse? Awesome ep BTW!

@gabrieltodino5970 3 года назад

Bread and Circus... Thanks for bring it up!!

@raymakbutwithmoustache6413 3 года назад

Such a quality channel

@whatzmyusrname 3 года назад

Woah, you tricked me for a second. 🎩👌🏻

@atribecalledjudah5436 3 года назад

I’m an Angels fan myself. Many Mexican families are fans of the Dodgers, and are the true heartbeat of the stadium because it sits on ancestral land. Like Tupac said, it wouldn’t be LA without them. My wife is Mexican and I know she will be disgusted when she sees this. The truth always comes to light and Karma will remain undefeated.

@almightysosa3007 3 года назад

Going to be heartbreaking when some of these diehard dodgers fans find out about this, it’s a shame too because so much of their fan base is Hispanic

@iceebluu3572 3 года назад

@@almightysosa3007 most dodger fans know of the history already, thats why Fernandomania is so iconic to latino dodger fans

@Colonel_MaelRadec 3 года назад

Amazing missing chapter!!!!

@cesarhernandez7064 2 года назад

Same thing happened to Bunker Hills in downtown LA. It used to be wooden Victorian mansions. It was five feet tall an one of the residents still remembers where "The Castle" used to be located at.

@markmilitant 3 года назад

I got a similar story from the displacement of la familia Rosario in the Dominican Republic

@thundercake123. 3 года назад

Wow something I never thought of about western baseball expansion. Great video!

@Trx-ep7rg 2 года назад

Interesting. Recently I went to Dodger Stadium and the infrastructure to get there, being on a hill, was terrible. The last mile or two took about 20 minutes (bumper to bumper traffic) and the parking space was extremely disorganized yet humongous.

@blackboxsounds 3 года назад

Thank you for covering this. It means a lot to me. Please do Porvenir massacre 1918.

@OnasaD 2 года назад

Owning a house is the best way to build wealth in America, now imagine someone taking away that American dream just because your neighborhood doesn’t match their ethnicity, ever wondered why blacks and browns are always in the roughest parts of the city meanwhile Caucasian people live in massive houses in the suburbs?

@projectc.j.j3310 2 года назад

No not really😂 I grew up in Brooklyn

@aaronwilliams6989 5 месяцев назад

I will say that many poor white people exist, too.

@cesarsojo243 3 года назад

It's latino not latinx

@Tustin2121 3 года назад

I’ve heard some people who insist on trying to non-binary a gendered language use the term “Latine”, which is at least pronounceable in Spanish.

@cesarsojo243 3 года назад

@@Tustin2121 Latinx is a term made by those who don't understand how the Spanish language work. The term latin already exists, use that instead.

@RenaMarmolejo-ph9dv Месяц назад

My Mom is the lady in the video Lola. My son Joseph submitted this story to VOX because of his love for his Grandma. He heard about her plight and being forced to move as a child and decided her story needed to be told. My Mom is now 88 years old and doesn't remember a lot now a days but still talks about her life as a child in Chavez Ravine. My Mom was also honored by the City of Los Angeles and given an award for her community activism in our community of Bassett California. She is truly a special woman. 💗

@schootingstarr 3 года назад

haha the face of the old woman when her son explained that despite all that he remains a dodgers fan and will raise his son as one, too.

@gengiz80 3 года назад

Oh American capitalism you have so many skeletons in your closet

@damionhernandez7383 2 года назад

My grandfather was born and raised in those same homes and was moved out by those same people , i wish i had the knowledge that i have now after he has past and my family members are now trying to tell his story

@seattlerinis8249 3 года назад

Actually this is best short film about this story I've seen in a long time. Kicks the tar out of anything produced by the local PBS outlet KCET. Terrific graphics and interviews with the former residents. But you put La Loma on the WRONG place on the map.

@anthonyduran2209 Год назад

Great Documentary, very tragic what happened to those families.

@charlescummings2205 2 года назад

Yeah, they, the city, really need to apologize for doing that. It was a beautiful area. They could have built that stadium anywhere.

@NatashaMay10 3 года назад

Wow, i had no idea. I really appreciate this story Vox.

@SlaughterDog 3 года назад

It still baffles me as to how there hasn’t been any uprisings strong enough to remove those in power who are responsible for this kind of stuff

@zonaryorange8734 3 года назад

Cause this kind of stuff happened 60 years ago. Still in range of a lifetime, but those city officials aren’t in power anymore. The best thing would be to imagine their fury over the way things have changed and how the people in power aren’t always just white guys (still mostly, but not always)

@aaronwilliams6989 5 месяцев назад

@@zonaryorange8734IT STILL HAPPENS NOW!

@goochfitness26 3 года назад

This is heartbreaking💔

@donatello956 3 года назад

It's Latinos, not LatinX. I never knew the history of the Dodger Stadium. Very sad how all those people lost their homes.

@herpderpy9445 3 года назад

All this destruction and heartache in order to hold a team stolen from New York. What a trash legacy.

@rikeep 3 года назад

This story reminds me of the building of the I-10 through Treme in New Orleans, overnight changing a whole community, a real injustice.

@satiric_ 3 года назад

Sadly most large cities in the US have similar stories - it's not like there were freeway-shaped empty plots of land before the interstate system was built.

@ivanamper5323 3 года назад

This reminds me of a similar thing they did in new york where there was this neighborhood called san juan hill that mostly housed puerto rican immigrants but was destroyed to make way for the lincoln center of the performing arts. The neighborhood is the setting for the musical west side story and they also shot scenes in the actual neighborhood for the movie during the time when the neighborhood was being demolished which was in the 60s