Health & Fitness
Photo Exhibit: Chavez Ravine Before Dodger Stadium
The Muckenthaler in Fullerton will exhibit Don Normark's photographs of the people of Chavez Ravine several years before the bulldozers arrived.
The dispossessed families of Chavez Ravine suffered personal losses as a result of the chain of events that led to the creation of Dodger Stadium. The nation as a whole suffered when the City of Los Angeles decided not to allow the Los Angeles Housing Authority to build public housing in Chavez Ravine: public housing became brushed in the public mind with the red taint of Communism.
Don Normark photographed the people of Chavez Ravine before the Los Angeles Housing Authority confiscated their homes through its power of eminent domain. Normark’s haunting photographs may be seen at the Muckenthaler in Fullerton. April 12 is the Opening Reception.
City government allowed Chavez Ravine to languish as an almost abandoned slum until the mid 1950s, which City Councilman Kenneth Hahn gave the Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley a helicopter tour.
