To make way for Dodger Stadium, a thriving Mexican American community was uprooted
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He tells his story through a richly-reported portrayal of the last displaced family, the Arechiga family, whose patriarch and matriarch were born in Mexico and built their house in L.A. by hand. Across three generations, the family helped settle the neighborhood and achieved a version of the American Dream: They owned multiple properties, had kids who married and had kids of their own, and helped form a robust neighborhood with churches, a school and hard-fought city services like a bus line.
First, the land was eyed for a public housing development, and most of the Arechigas’ neighbors were forced to leave under eminent domain laws that allowed property to be seized, with paltry compensation, so long as it was for a public good. Ultimately, the housing plans were scuttled amid an upswell of anti-communist sentiment, but with much of the land cleared, then-Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley spotted an opportunity.
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