As Dodger Stadium Turns 60, Looking Back at the ‘Lost Town’ It Displaced

The Exiles Offers a Window Into the Past and Future of Los Angeles

Sixty years ago this spring, when Dodger Stadium opened at Chavez Ravine overlooking downtown, it signaled the end of one Los Angeles and the beginning of another. The story of the city of L.A.’s removal of the Mexican American homeowners in Chavez Ravine is well documented. But the story of the last days of the nearby Bunker Hill neighborhood is less well known—and opens a window onto the city and the stadium’s past and future.

There wasn’t much to “downtown” in April 1962: just City Hall, the L.A. Times building, some …