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I write a lot about the history of Los Angeles, my hometown, and about Mexico City, alsoon 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
...and for which I created an article
I helped clean these up:
links to Southern California retail history:
Navigation template:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:History_of_Retail_in_Southern_California
L.A.'s Central Business District 1880s-1890s, nearly entirely demolished and replaced with the Civic Center:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Business_District,_Los_Angeles_(1880s-1890s)
Some early Jewish merchants, all from Löbau, West Prussia (near today's Gdańsk)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_%26_Frank#Leopold_Harris
Broadway, L.A.'s main shopping district 1900-1950s (cinemas, 1920s- ):
Broadway (street) department store list (with sq. ft.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Los_Angeles)#Table_of_department_stores_on_Broadway_and_7th_streets
Broadway revitalization/gentrificationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Los_Angeles)#Preservation_and_renovation_efforts
Seventh Street, the upscale shopping street 1915-1950shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Street_(Los_Angeles)
Hollywood Blvd., L.A.'s glamorous inner-suburban shopping district before Beverly Hills 1910s-1930shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Boulevard#Regional_shopping_district
Downtown Palm Springs retail historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plaza_(Palm_Springs)#Downtown_Palm_Springs_shopping_district
Some of the first retailers in L.A. 1850s-1880sBullock's Downtown
History of downtown LA (&LB) flagships & their chainsBullock's - yet to be writtenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway#Originshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Robinson%27s#Historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Company_California#Historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_Bros.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffums#Flagshiphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_%26_Frank
Store lists:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullock%27s#Store_listhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway#Store_listhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Robinson%27s#Store_listhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Company_California#Store_listhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffums#Branches
...plus some districts/areas and a couple small towns around AtlantaStats indicate views/mo. as of 2013-02-17
I have created pages for a few architects who were active in "old" Atlanta (roughly 1880s-1920s)
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