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Chicano Park Celebrates 46 Years |


By Ana Gomez Salcido (Photograph by Mario A. Cortez)
After a series of struggles in the Barrio Logan community, the proposed construction of a California Highway Patrol station in 1970 was the last straw for neighborhood residents and eventually lead to the construction of Chicano Park, which celebrated its 46
th Anniversary this past Saturday.
“We felt we were getting dumped on again,” said community activist and Barrio Logan community leader, Rachel Ortiz. Ortiz had marched with Cesar Chavez in the years leading up to the creation of Chicano Park.
The struggles faced by the community of Barrio Logan trace back to the waterfront access taken away during World War II, the 1950s when city officials rezoned the area to allow commercial and industrial activity literally next to homes with families, and the splitting of the neighborhood in the 1960s by the construction of the I-5 and the Coronado Bridge. ....

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