On August 29, 1970, Mexican American journalist Rubén Salazar was killed while covering the Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles. A gas projectile shot by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy ended Salazar’s life inside a local bar, the Silver Dollar Café, where he took a break from the demonstration occurring outside. In death, Salazar became a martyr of the Chicano Movement. And, as this chapter argues, the bar similarly experienced a mythical recasting in Chicanx activist consciousness and cultural production. This chapter traces two such afterlives of the Silver Dollar: first, in the photographic work of Raul Ruiz; and second, through the historical detective novel by Maria Nieto, Pig behind the Bear. I show how each respective text sets in motion a type of site-specific transformative witnessing and call to action that reverberates through time. Specifically, I analyze how this is done through the perspective of women viewing the incident of August 29 outside and inside the bar. I see this focalization as a blueprint in the establishment of the Silver Dollar Café as an ongoing political and cultural site of enduring Chicanx social change.