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I write a lot about the history of Los Angeles, my hometown, and about Mexico City, also
on Spanish Wikipedia. I used to write and edit a lot about Atlanta and its history... there's a lot 'under the hood' in that city.
I also write about a few other random things... and a couple articles on Dutch wikipedia.
Pictures I uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Topics about which I was amazed there wasn't already a Wikipedia article
...and for which I created an article
Topics I was amazed what improvement was needed
I helped clean these up:
Articles created
Southern California & Retail
links to Southern California retail history:
Navigation template:
/info/en/?search=Template:History_of_Retail_in_Southern_California
L.A.'s Central Business District 1880s-1890s, nearly entirely demolished and replaced with the Civic Center:
/info/en/?search=Central_Business_District,_Los_Angeles_(1880s-1890s)
Some early Jewish merchants, all from Löbau, West Prussia (near today's Gdańsk)
/info/en/?search=Harris_%26_Frank#Leopold_Harris
Broadway, L.A.'s main shopping district 1900-1950s (cinemas, 1920s- ):
Broadway (street) department store list (with sq. ft.)
/info/en/?search=Broadway_(Los_Angeles)#Table_of_department_stores_on_Broadway_and_7th_streets
Broadway revitalization/gentrification
/info/en/?search=Broadway_(Los_Angeles)#Preservation_and_renovation_efforts
Seventh Street, the upscale shopping street 1915-1950s
/info/en/?search=7th_Street_(Los_Angeles)
Hollywood Blvd., L.A.'s glamorous inner-suburban shopping district before Beverly Hills 1910s-1930s
/info/en/?search=Hollywood_Boulevard#Regional_shopping_district
Downtown Palm Springs retail history
/info/en/?search=La_Plaza_(Palm_Springs)#Downtown_Palm_Springs_shopping_district
Some of the first retailers in L.A. 1850s-1880s
Bullock's Downtown
History of downtown LA (&LB) flagships & their chains
Bullock's - yet to be written
/info/en/?search=The_Broadway#Origins
/info/en/?search=J._W._Robinson%27s#History
/info/en/?search=May_Company_California#History
/info/en/?search=Barker_Bros.
/info/en/?search=Buffums#Flagship
/info/en/?search=Harris_%26_Frank
Store lists:
/info/en/?search=Bullock%27s#Store_list
/info/en/?search=The_Broadway#Store_list
/info/en/?search=J._W._Robinson%27s#Store_list
/info/en/?search=May_Company_California#Store_list
/info/en/?search=Buffums#Branches
Department stores:
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Shopping centers:
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Anaheim Plaza
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Broadway-Crenshaw Plaza - history, update
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Broadway & 87th Street shopping center - first multi-supermarket center in L.A.
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El Monte Shopping Center - former mall
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Esplanade Mall (Oxnard, California)
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Golden Mall, Burbank
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Indian Hill Mall (defunct), Pomona
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La Habra Fashion Square - former mall
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La Jolla Village Square - former mall
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La Mirada Mall - former mall
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One Paseo, Rancho Santa Fe, S.D. Co.
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Orange County Plaza - first large open-air plaza in OC, now a strip mall
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Panorama City Shopping Center - first center with 4 dept. stores
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Peninsula Center, Palos Verdes
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Pomona Mall (defunct)
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Promenade on the Peninsula, Palos Verdes
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Shopping centers in Santa Fe Springs, California (3 former malls)
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Town & Country Market - across from Farmer's Market, Fairfax District, L.A.
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Valley Plaza - former open air mall
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Westfield Mission Valley - added a lot to history section
Shopping districts and streets:
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Atlanta-related
History of Atlanta
Buildings
Historic districts
Miscellaneous
Neighborhoods extant and extinct
...plus some districts/areas and a couple small towns around Atlanta
Stats indicate views/mo. as of 2013-02-17
Streets
Parks and trails
People
I have created pages for a few architects who were active in "old" Atlanta (roughly 1880s-1920s)
Sculptures
Templates
Cuba
Mexico
Mexico City
Skyscrapers
Streets
Freeways
Neighborhoods
Shopping centers
Tijuana
Netherlands
Georgia (country)
Los Angeles history
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Victorian Downtown Los Angeles - about the central business district of the 1880s and 1890s and the history of the area through the mid-1950s when it was virtually all demolished to make way for the Civic Center
Retail (outside Southern California)
Retail concepts
Southern Africa
Saint Petersburg & Russia
San Diego (non-retail)
Washington, D.C.
Mixed-use developments
Food halls
Other stuff
Merged
Articles given major overhauls and contributions
Atlanta
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Atlanta (major additions, cleanup, and structuring) major achievements
- moving away from text which appears to be a Chamber of Commerce-type brochure: replacing continuous lauding of virtues with neutral POV
- identifying what makes the city unique and characteristic (e.g. city is a capital of hip hop) - not just "checking the boxes" on what would go into a traditional encyclopedia (e.g. fine art, ballet, opera)
- ensuring sub-articles like History have good content and good summary sections at the top; transferring these summaries to the main
Atlanta article, i.e. making the article/subarticle system work
History of Atlanta
Other Atlanta