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	Chávez Ravine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the population of Los Angeles expanding and Chavez Ravine viewed as a prime, underutilized location, the city, on the urging of city Housing Authority director Frank Wilkinson, voted to use federal funds to erect an apartment complex to address the severe post-World War II housing shortage.
		During the failed housing project attempt, the city began to label the area as "blighted" and thus viewed Chavez Ravine as ripe for redevelopment.
		With Chavez Ravine slated to become the site of the new Dodger Stadium, the remaining members of the Chavez Ravine community were forced to relocate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chavez_Ravine (369 words)

	Independent Lens . CHAVEZ RAVINE . The History of Chavez Ravine \| PBS
		Named for Julian Chavez, one of the first Los Angeles County Supervisors in the 1800s, Chavez Ravine was a self-sufficient and tight-knit community, a rare example of small town life within a large urban metropolis.
		The story of Chavez Ravine is intertwined with the social and political climate of the 1950s, or the “Red Scare” era.
		While supporters of the federal public housing plan for Chavez Ravine viewed it as an idealistic opportunity to provide improved services for poor Angelenos, opponents of the plan—including corporate business interests that wanted the land for their own use—employed the widespread anti-communist paranoia of the day to characterize such public housing projects as socialist plots.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/chavezravine/cr.html (867 words)

	Breaking Ground
		"Chavez Ravine" confronts and explodes the myth that the original residents of the area lost their homes to make way for the building of Dodger Stadium.
		In 1950, the Los Angeles Housing Authority informed the residents of Chavez Ravine that their land would be purchased and used for public housing.
		Unseen by anyone else, the displaced residents of Chavez Ravine appear to the Mexican pitcher, and they begin to tell him about their homes, buried beneath the bases and the outfield of the stadium.
	www.laalternativepress.com /v02n03/features/glenn.php (2511 words)

	Chavez Ravine : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		For "Chavez Ravine" is a concept album about the eponymous area near Los Angeles that was torn down in the 1950’s by developers to make way for the Dodgers Stadium.
		Chavez Ravine comes on like a soundtrack, although there is no movie (bet there's a documentary to follow).
		In Chavez Ravine, an album he's been working on for about three years, Cooder researched the disappearance of an area of Los Angeles, and long-standing Mexican community, that was erased to make way for what would become Dodgers Stadium.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/B0009353IW/Chavez-Ravine.html (803 words)

	Ry Cooder: Chavez Ravine (2005): Reviews
		Chavez Ravine is easily the most ambitious thing in Cooder's catalog, and it just may be the grand opus of his career.
		With Chavez Ravine he has performed another ethnomusicological miracle, opening a can of worms while drawing us deep into the musical heart of a lost community.
		Chavez Ravine drags occasionally, the result of too many serious narratives, but the stories that do work are jaw-droppingly simple and painfully familiar.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/cooderry/chavezravine (839 words)

	U-Press Telegram - MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Chavez Ravine creative projects, along with a musical performed by the Latino comedy group Culture Clash at the Mark Taper Forum in 2003, reveal a self-sufficient shantytown built on 300 acres a stone's throw from downtown and the Pasadena Freeway, a rare example of small-town life within a large urban metropolis.
		The Chavez Ravine eviction, beginning in July 1950 when residents of the canyon received letters from the city telling them that they would have to sell their homes in order to make way for the proposed Elysian Park Heights, got scant media coverage at the time.
		Although some say Chavez Ravine represents the dawn of Latino political awareness in Los Angeles, East L.A. singer Willie Garcia, who sings throughout the album, said most evictions were carried out in the dead of night with police standing by and reporters kept at bay.
	u.presstelegram.com /Stories/0,1413,218%257E24215%257E2950683,00.html (1226 words)

	Independent Lens . CHAVEZ RAVINE . Talkback \| PBS
		The story of the Chavez Ravine families is sad one and there was much greed similar to what continues to many low income communities of color today.
		The documentary Chavez Ravine stated that Los Angeles did not have Major league Baseball until the Dodger arrived in Los Angeles; that was a wrong statement since the Dodgers came from a stadium where they only could fit about 13,0000 people in Brooklyn.
		Chavez Ravine failed to point out that the Dodgers (O’Malley) had purchased the Los Angeles Angels in 1957 and promised the other Pacific Coast teams owners that he would keep the Angels in Los Angeles.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/chavezravine/talkback.html (3495 words)

	Chavez Ravine - Culture Clash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Culture Clash, the Latino comedy group that wrote and performed Chavez Ravine, looks to be having a wonderful time telling a forgotten bit of Los Angeles history at the Mark Taper Forum.
		When the Los Angeles Dodgers were still the Brooklyn Dodgers, and before most Angelinos were even born, Chavez Ravine was a canyon with small villages of Mexican immigrants dotting its hillsides.
		Their sentimentality ignored the fact that the area was rat infested, a fire trap, and that the schools were below the standards of the rest of the district.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater5/ChavezRavine.htm (715 words)

	Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chavez y Chavez (1851-1924) was a cowboy from New Mexico who rode with Billy the Kid
		Chavez (band), an indie rock band active in the New York club scene in the mid to late 90's
		Domingo Chavez, a fictional character in Tom Clancy's books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chavez (243 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Sounds of LA's lost souls echo down the years
		Chavez Ravine and the community that once kept goats and chickens on the hills of the ravine was bulldozed at the end of the 1950s, its people long-forgotten.
		The tussle over Chavez Ravine came at the height of McCarthyism, he says, and the red scare was used as a tactic to halt the public housing plan.
		The irony of the Seattle-based coffee giant reminding the world of the plight of Chavez Ravine and of urban blight are not lost on Cooder.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1509905,00.html (1117 words)

	Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!
		The drama of Chavez Ravine begins with what photo-essayist Don Normark called "a poor man's Shangri-La" the villages of La Loma, Bishop and Palo Verde, home to some 1,100 mainly poor, mainly Mexican American families.
		In the end, the spoils went to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who acquired Chavez Ravine and built their stadium atop the bulldozed villages.
		But for Ron Lopez, a professor of history and Mexican American studies at Oakland's Laney College, who is writing a book on Chavez Ravine called "The Politics of Displacement," the fundamental lesson is that civic leaders and bureaucrats with big plans need to respect the human face of a city as they find it.
	www.artistsnetwork.org /news9/news434.html (935 words)

	: : . Sublime . : :
		It is his first since "Get Rhythm" in 1987 which isn't a soundtrack, or an attempt to pass on his enthusiasm for the forgotten corners of a map far removed from the concerns of the modern music business.
		Repulsed by the rats of Chavez Ravine, he dreamed of replacing the shanty town with good housing for the poor.
		It is the imaginary music for what Chavez Ravine has become in Cooder's imagination.
	www.sublimemagazine.com /rycooder.htm (1616 words)

	BallparkTour.com - Dodger Stadium
		On a May 2, 1957 helicopter tour, O’Malley was shown the land in Chavez Ravine, one mile north of downtown and potential freeway access from all directions.
		The ballclub drew 2,755,184 in their first season in Chavez Ravine, and in 1978 the Dodgers became the first team ever to draw 3 million fans in a single season.
		Chavez Ravine was a difficult site because of a network of washes, gullies and gulches that were interlaced with hills and twisting roads.
	www.ballparktour.com /Dodger_Stadium.html (1990 words)

	Ry Cooder : Chavez Ravine - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Three years in the making, Chavez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder, is his first "solo" offering since 1987's Get Rhythm.
		It documents in mythical style the disappeared Los Angeles neighborhood of Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American district that fought over by real etate developers, urban planning activists and city government.
		Chavez Ravine is sad and beautiful, funny, quirky and funky; it's got dirt under its nails and keeps listeners engaged from the jump with history and its colorful ghosts.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3216071,00.html (704 words)

	DIG Internet Radio - Chavez Ravine
		Chavez Ravine tells the story of a long lost Mexican village in the foothills of Los Angeles, not far from City Hall, that fell victim to developers in the late 1940's and early 1950's and whose fate was tied up in the politics of the McCarthy era.
		In his book, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story (which inspired the music here and a documentary in which it is featured), Don Normark's remarkable photographs from the late 40's capture a vibrant village that must have been a marvellous place to visit and an even better one in which to live.
		Chavez Ravine is held together by the thread of its story but all the songs can stand alone.
	www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s1424959.htm (1114 words)

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	Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
		The Chavez Ravine Arboretum is on the west side of Stadium Way near the Grace E. Simon Lodge.
		The Chavez Ravine Arboretum in Elysian Park was founded in 1893 by the Los Angeles Horticultural Society.
		The Chavez Ravine Arboretum was declared a Historic Cultural Monument in 1967.
	www.laparks.org /dos/horticulture/chavez.htm (373 words)

	DIG Internet Radio - Album Preview: Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine
		The album is a tribute to the longgone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chavez Ravine.
		Occasionally there would be photographs in the paper of some poor Mexican family from the ravine watching some bulldozer tear up their little house while being harassed by the LAPD or lectured to by some city politician.
		Normark's remarkable photographs were published in the book Chavez Ravine 1949: A Los Angles Story and an exhibition of the photographs will be staged at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in coming months.
	www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s1386496.htm (951 words)

	Lokal TV Kiel - Fernsehen aus Ihrer Region->Chavez Ravine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chavez Ravine war ein Dorf in der Stadt der Engel, idyllisch gelegen in einem kleinen Tal wenige Kilometer vom Zentrum von L.A. - ein Paradies für die mexikanischen Einwanderer, wie es Ry Cooder im Opener "Poor Man's Shangri-La" besingt.
		Die Hintergrundstory zu Chavez Ravine ist bekannt, was bleibt ist meine Faszination und tiefe Ehrfurcht vor diesen tollen Musikern, die ihre Seele nach außen tragen.
		Bei Chavez Ravin ist er auf seinen bisher sagenhaftesten Goldschatz in Sachen Musik gestoßen.
	www.lokaltv-kiel.de /preis-B0009353IW.html (773 words)

	Chavez Ravine: 1949: A Los Angeles Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The wooded slopes of Elysian Park overlooked the ravine, and beyond were the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains.
		lt;pgt;For those who dont know the story, in a nutshell: The residents of Chavez Ravine, who were almost entirely Latino, were offered the promise that their community would be replaced by public housing as part of a renewal project of sorts.
		The final hold-outs at Chavez Ravine were bodily removed by deputies as the last remnants of the neighborhood were cleared to make way for a sports field and parking lot.
	www.historyamericas.com /Chavez_Ravine_1949_A_Los_Angeles_Story_0811825345.html (894 words)

	Chavez Ravine Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By means of the Mexican-American war, Los Angeles was taken from Mexico, as well as its park, the distant mountains, the rest of California, Texas, and everything in between.
		I didn't learn until years later that even then, by 1949, plans were under way to take Chávez Ravine from the American Mexicans who lived there, and that the neighborhoods I was setting out to photograph were scheduled for demolition.
		And the ravine was a finite place, small enough that I felt I might make a set of photographs that could encompass a portion of the life there, that could represent the place.
	www.chroniclebooks.com /Chronicle/excerpt/0811825345-e1.html (467 words)

	Chavez Ravine Interesting Facts
		Of the 10 contemporary characters in "Tale of 2 Cities," one is the ghost of a Mexican-American grandmother named Gabriela, who grew up in Chavez Ravine.
		Another is Miriam Klinger, who lies in a coma in Brooklyn, but once lived in Hollywood as the wife of a Communist scriptwriter.
		CHAVEZ RAVINE Written and Performed by; Culture Clash.
	members.tripod.com /chavez_ravine/T_facts.htm (284 words)

	Chavez Ravine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chavez Ravine is the name used to describe a community that compromised three neighborhoods.
		Named for Julian Chavez* who obtained the land in 1840.
		It was deemed by the city council at the time that the area they referred to as Chavez Ravine, otherwise known to the neighbors as Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop was a prime spot for this project.
	caot.lacitycollege.edu /112/FinalChavezRavine (181 words)

	On Point : Ry Cooder's "Chavez Ravine" - Ry Cooder's "Chavez Ravine"
		In the 1950s, Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine, home to 300 Mexican families, was leveled for a low-income housing project.
		Then came Dodgers Stadium in Chavez Ravine, and a dream was gone.
		William Garcia "Little Willie G.", contributor to "Chavez Ravine," frontman of the 60's R&B group from East Los Angeles "Thee Midnighters," and one of the leading innovators of the "East L.A. Sound".
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2005/07/20050722_b_main.asp (215 words)

	The forgotten story of Chavez Ravine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The tracks do many things at once: capture the feel of day-to-day life in Chavez Ravine, set the story in its broader context, condemn the notion of “progress” that wiped the community off the map, and pay tribute to a pioneering generation of Chicano musicians, who, like Chavez Ravine, have been forgotten.
		For Chavez Ravine, Cooder collaborated with Chicano musicians like William Garcia, leader of the 1950s and '60s R&B band Little Willie G and Thee Midnighters, Lalo Guerrero and Ersi Arvizu.
		Chavez Ravine is determined to bring those secrets about 50-year-old events into the light of day — and let us judge for ourselves.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2005/641/641p22.htm (714 words)

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	Chavez Ravine a CurtainUp Los Angeles review
		But in Culture Clash's Chavez Ravine, now performing at the Mark Taper Forum, it's not a simple confrontation of an oppressed ethnic group against the bureaucracy of an Old White Boys Club.
		It turns out that Chavez Ravine was named not for Cesar Chavez but for Julian Chavez who lived in the 1840s.
		It wass not until 1957 that Chavez Ravine was considered as the possible site for Dodger Stadium but by then only a few families remained in the ravine to resist the eminent domain orders.
	www.curtainup.com /chavezravine.html (855 words)

	Ry Cooder, Chavez Ravine...a record by Ry Cooder
		The story of Chavez Ravine is one of "eminent domain" (the right of the government to take private property for public use, with proper payment being made) and of "red-baiting" and "contracted hits" and lies, and cheating, and lots of other fine American stuff like baseball.
		A fairly complete, and quite entertaining, animated history of the Ravine can be found here and PBS has been broadcasting a documentary which features a soundtrack by Cooder.
		He collected his photos in a book entitled Chavez Ravine (published in 2003 by Chronicle Books) which shows the ramshackle yet joyful neighborhood, and the destruction of their way of life.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_cooder_ravine.html (975 words)

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