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To: TBP; okie1; BluesDuke; All
Chavez Ravine is where Dodger Stadium is located.

Geographic names change over the years, as properties are developed and change character. Map makers keep up with those changes. "Chavez Ravine" was the former name of the property, not its widely accepted (except for some Mexican nationalists and some anti-Dodgers baseball fans) current name.

32 posted on 11/02/2011 10:52:38 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

“Chavez Ravine is where Dodger Stadium is located.
Geographic names change over the years, as properties are developed and change character. Map makers keep up with those changes. “Chavez Ravine” was the former name of the property, not its widely accepted (except for some Mexican nationalists and some anti-Dodgers baseball fans) current name.”

I am a white guy from Orange County, who watched games at the Coliseum, remember going to new Dodger Stadium at Chavez Ravine.

I’m no Mexican nationalist, and certainly not anti-Dodgers.

My wife’s Italian immigrant grandparents lived east of that area, around 1920 once they met in San Francisco and then moved to LA.

Now of course it isn’t a great area. There’s nothing political about calling it Chavez Ravine.

Chavez is named after a 19th century LA councilman, not Caesar Chavez.


38 posted on 11/02/2011 6:36:55 PM PDT by truth_seeker (is)
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