chicano park

The San Diego and Coronado Ferry was replaced by a bridge constructed between February 1967-August 3, 1969



John Logan (1826 –1886) was an American soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and was later elected to the Senate. The southern part of San Diego City was named in his honor. The neighborhood was changed by 1910 with the influx of refugees of the Mexican Revolution and ironically the neighborhood was renamed Barrio Logan. Also from the early 1920s until the early 1990s Logan Heights was home to the largest black community in San Diego with he oldest church built by the black community is the big Pink Church which was built in 1912.

The City Council had promised to build a park to compensate for the loss of over 5,000 homes and businesses removed for the construction of the freeway and bridge, as well as for the aesthetic degradation created by the overhead freeways supported by a forest of gray concrete piers. In June 1969, the park was officially approved and a site was designated, but no action was taken to implement the decision.

On April 22, 1970, a community member,Mario Solis, noticed bulldozers next to the area designated for the park. When he inquired about the nature of the work being undertaken, he was shocked to discover that, rather than a park, the crew was preparing to build a parking lot next to a building that would be converted into a California Highway Patrol station.

He organized a massive protest which involved a 12 day takeover of the park and human chains around the bulldozers. Eventually the city recognized it's original promise an deemed the area Chicano Park.

The 72 murals that were painted remain today. One of the most iconic was one that said "varrios yes (neighborhoods yes)", and "yonkes, no (junkyards no)". The word "yonkes" is chicano slang, and I don't even know if they know what it means in Mexico City. Naturally many people have assumed it was a Chicano spelling of "Yankees".


The word "chicano" comes from "mechicano", which is a dialectal variant of mexicano .

Sadly a truck just crashed from the bridge killing four people in a booth in Chicano Park.

Speed? shifting cargo such as hanging meat? Too tight a curve? Insufficient guard rails? Lack of pavement grooving?

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Speed? shifting cargo such as hanging meat? Too tight a curve? Insufficient guard rails? Lack of pavement grooving?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRGKa2yDfxY
drunk?

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drunk?

Looks like it, but insufficient guard rails too I think.

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drunk?

As drunk as a sailor.