Barrio Logan
Mexican-American neighborhood beneath a bridge overpass, its concrete pylons covered in over a hundred murals born from a twelve-day protest.
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This guide to Barrio Logan in San Diego opens on April 22, 1970, when neighbors, students, and grandmothers occupied the land under the new Coronado Bridge on-ramps for twelve days to stop bulldozers from turning a promised park into a highway patrol station. You'll hear about painter Salvador Torres, whose own family lost their home to the bridge approach, and the idea he stood up and proposed at a community meeting the day after the standoff. The guide follows three more years of arguing with the city before anyone touched a single concrete pillar with a brush.
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