Talk:Macdonald 80 Shopping Center

Notability
I put the PROD because I could not find any importance of this shopping center. It has nothing to do with the age or how far along the article is. If I missed something notable about the center, please correct me. Thank you. -- Scootzer99  01:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Aren't all shopping centers notable? Almost every mall in the Bay Area has an article from Bay Street to Northgate to Hilltop Mall to commercial districts like the Solano Stroll or Eastmont Mall or Southland Shopping Center or El Cerrito Plaza Shopping Center. They are just as important as high schools, middle schools, or elementary schools to local communities as are parks, they have long eclectic histories. People grow up with them. They take up large tracts of land and are regional, county or local landmarks and meeting places.Troyster87 (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I remember going to this place when I was a kid...it was basically a huge parking lot with a Montgomery Ward's on one end and a Toys r Us on the other. It would be a stretch to call this a mall, it was a pretty standard suburban shopping center, not unlike thousands of others. 66.92.14.198 (talk) 22:53, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * When you were a kid it was just two big box stores, it was demolished and rebuilt as a shopping center, with anchors, mid sized stores, and small shops, fast food, banks etc. Like El Cerrito Plaza Shopping Center (the way it is now anyways, as plaza was also demolished and rebuit).Troyster87 (talk) 09:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The problem is the article doesn'y hel;p spell out for those who know nothing about the subject why this shopping center is notable. Is it the largest mall in the area from 1950-1970? Is it one of the oldest surviving malls in Northern California, etc. Help the reader care about and understand the subject. -- Banj e b oi   03:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

So what do you think of it now?Troyster87 (talk) 02:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Getting there, I suggest adding some context about Richmond and how the area changed over time and what interplay that had or didn't have with the mall. Is it a farming community so this mega mall was a magnet and social center. The decay cited should be woven in with that narrative a bit. The history section jumps from the 1950s - the 1990s, something must have happened in there. You could also link to the history of consumerism for the US or California. -- Banj e  b oi   03:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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