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Beneath the Ballpark

99% Invisible

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The City of Dreams, Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles

The community at Chavez Ravine was displaced in a contentious battle to reshape what the city would look like. Back then Los Angeles wasn't known as the sprawling world center it is today. In the year since the turn of the century, Los Angeles has grown from a sleepy pueblo to a vast, seeding metropolitan setting. It's an up and coming city, but not really completely there yet.

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