Beneath the Ballpark
99% Invisible
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The City of Los Angeles in the 1950s
Los Angeles felt more like a collection of neighborhoods than a cohesive city. There are very, very few pieces of what I call civic glue in Los Angeles in the 1950s. Very few municipal institutions that everyone in the city can identify with and rally around. And a few city leaders thought if the people of Los Angeles needed something to rally around, let's give them a baseball team. But they only made it as far as St Louis, which is actually on the Mississippi, so it barely counts.
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