October 15, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Kirk Gibson of the Los Angeles Dodgers limped to home plate, walking on two badly injured legs. Gibson moved in as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The home Dodgers trailed the Oakland Athletics 4-3, with two outs and Gibson the Dodgers' last hope. Athletics pitcher Dennis Eckersley throws a slider to Gibson, Gibson swings and hits the game, hitting two home runs. Legendary Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully poetically declares, “In a year of the improbable, the impossible happened. » The Dodgers win and the stadium, along with most of Los Angeles, is loud and wild with excitement. Some Los Angeles residents didn't party with the city, never cheer for the Dodgers, and will never return to Dodger Stadium. For these residents, Dodger Stadium will always be Chavez Ravine, and for them, the improbable, the impossible, already happened decades ago. Most Angelinos know that Dodger Stadium was once Chavez Ravine, a quiet, independent hillside neighborhood. Most would also agree that Dodger Stadium is an appropriate progression for an area known and designated as a slum. However, what most citizens do not realize is that the designation of Chavez Ravine as a slum only served to cover up the city's own modernization agenda through politics. The community's identity as a quiet hillside neighborhood was ultimately shattered following the Housing Act of 1949, as part of modern town planning and the wider political realm, in an era of intense anti-communist feeling. This article will demonstrate that these themes mentioned above are the reason why...... middle of article ......n, deputy director of the City of Los Angeles Housing Authority, was charged with redevelopment of Chavez Ravine. He envisioned public housing space for thousands of low-income units. The site of the redeveloped land was to be called Elysian Park Heights Public Housing (Fig. 1), here the first residents would be among the several hundred people evicted from their homes to make way for the public housing project. Frank Wilkinson himself states this in the documentary film Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles story. He claims: “We prepared certificates for each family (the certificate said) when the certificate was issued to you, and your family would be the first priority to make this happen. you can choose which part of the project you want to live in." This would be the beginning of the lies and broken promises made to the residents of the Chávez Ravine communities. .