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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

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

  • 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

  • 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