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Beneath the Ballpark
99% Invisible
Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles - The New Dodgers
In 1953, a new Los Angeles mayor named Norris Polson took office with an ideological objection to the project. He branded public housing as a communist plot or a socialist conspiracy. The city ended up buying the land from the federal housing authority and left it undeveloped for years while it figured out how to put the property to public use. And that's where the Dodgers come back into the picture. Walter O'Malley was convinced that Chavez Ravine was the perfect place to build his perfect stadium.
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