Chavez Ravine is the name used to describe a community that compromised three neighborhoods. The area known for the last forty years as home to L.A. Dodgers. Named for *Julian Chavez who obtained the land in 1840. 

In the late thirties the City of Los Angeles was looking for an area that would be used to build public housing. 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.

It was all about land management, the city leaders felt that the land in our community was not being fully utilized. They wanted more housing on the land because the housing would generate more tax dollars for the municipality.
To most people, Chavez Ravine is synonymous with Dodger Stadium. To the people that lived here, it was home.

*He was a prominent civic leader in pueblo de Los Angeles during the last century.