Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I’d leave the downtown courthouse, drive up toward Dodger Stadium, where my dad’s friend Luis Padilla used to live in Chavez Ravine before everyone got kicked out when they built Dodger Stadium."

"I did what Luis Padilla taught me and Manny in his boxing club, up by old Chavez Ravine."

"behind us, at Chavez Ravine."

"They have a few beers, leave one car there, and wait until the first half of the first inning is over before they make the last fifteen‐minute push up the Chavez Ravine hill, because the truth is, neither one of them is that crazy about baseball."

"They walked northeast and down a long sweet incline to where Griffith Park Boulevard and Los Feliz and Fletcher Drive met to form a strange frontier between the neighborhoods of Atwater, Glendale, the “Los Feliz District” and “the Valley”— not the San Fernando Valley but that three‐block strip between the hills that sheltered Chavez Ravine and railroad tracks that snaked along, parallel to the hills, into the depths of downtown."

"Chavez Ravine, where a generations‐old Mexican-American neighborhood was torn down, its residents forcibly removed, beaten, and left uncompensated to make room for a baseball stadium with ample parking and the Dodger Dog."