User:Keizers

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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

  • The
    Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880s-1890s)
  • Food hall
  • FOCSA Building - tallest building in Cuba (858 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Asa G. Candler, Jr. - the alcoholic, eccentric, tycoon son of Coca-Cola's Asa Griggs Candler
    - had a zoo at his mansion (549 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Rand McNally Building - world's first all-steel-framed skyscraper (642 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Roma in the United States
    (gypsies) - an ethnic group numbering about 1,000,000 and no article! (7864 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Streetcars in Atlanta - there was partial info about current planned streetcars, but not the old extensive network (1010 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Trolleybuses in Atlanta - city once had the world's largest network of buses which used overhead wires for electric power - and this was not documented in Wikipedia! (182 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Atlanta Daily World - Atlanta's oldest black newspaper and the only long running black daily (493 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Deltalina - spokesperson on the Delta Air Lines safety videos (3657 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
  • Seismic code
  • Street vendors in Mexico City
  • Trouble with the Curve - the Clint Eastwood movie, which was already being filmed - still no article - except in French!
  • Walter Schroeder, Milwaukee insurance and hotel magnate - I heard his life story and about his ghost on NPR

Topics I was amazed what improvement was needed

I helped clean these up:

  • History of Atlanta - great coverage of the Civil War and Gone with the Wind premiere, but very little "black history" (the city is >50% black)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site
  • Market (place)

Articles created

Southern California & Retail

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/gentrification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Los_Angeles)#Preservation_and_renovation_efforts

Seventh Street, the upscale shopping street 1915-1950s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Street_(Los_Angeles)

Hollywood Blvd., L.A.'s glamorous inner-suburban shopping district before Beverly Hills 1910s-1930s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Boulevard#Regional_shopping_district

Downtown Palm Springs retail history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Robinson%27s#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Company_California#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_Bros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffums#Flagship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_%26_Frank

Store lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullock%27s#Store_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway#Store_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Robinson%27s#Store_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Company_California#Store_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
  • Punto Chapultepec
  • Torre BBVA Bancomer
  • Torre Diana
  • Torre Mitikah
    , will be tallest building in city from 2015
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)

See also: § Tijuana

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

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