Joel Castillo of Ventura County pauses to shoot photos during a visit to Chicano Park. Behind him is a mural titled “Colossus,” by Mario Torero, Mano Lima and Laurie Manzano. To the right is a mural titled “Indian Dancer,” and a second named “Tree of Life.” (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Visitors Erika Lopez and Joel Castillo pause to view a detail from the mural titled “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” in Chicano Park. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
A jogger passes by Chicano Park, where dozens of murals are painted on stanchions below the Coronado Bridge/Interstate 5 interchange. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Visitors to Chicano Park view dozens of murals painted on the concrete stanchions leading to and from the Coronado Bridge. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The murals are a showcase and a snapshot of Chicano art from the neighborhood activism of the late 1960s and early ‘70s. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
