Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles is known for being one of the biggest and oldest MLB baseball parks in the country, having hosted 10 World Series and served as a grand entertainment venue for music icons like the Beatles and Elton John. But before its construction in 1962, the area was home to thousands of residents, many of whom were of Mexican, Chinese and Italian descent. Nearly 1,800 of those families were displaced to build the stadium.
More Chavez Ravine residents were evicted in 1959 'amid screaming, crying and cursing' as bulldozers cleared the site where their homes used to stand, newspaper clippings from the time show. The Dodgers debuted in their new stadium in April 1962. Aurora Vargas, Melissa Arechiga’s aunt, was among those evicted residents.
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