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Today in Photographs: May 8, 1959

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 12 a.m.
By Steven Mikulan
Today in Photographs: May 8, 1959
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L.A. County sheriff's deputies remove Aurora Vargas from her Chavez Ravine home. Vargas and her family were among the last hold-outs in the barrio resisting a city eviction order paving the way for Dodger Stadium construction.

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