User:Keizers

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)

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


 * Template:History of Retail in Southern California
 * Experiential commerce

Department stores:
 * The Broadway
 * Buffums, section on flagship store
 * Bullock's, section on flagship store
 * City of Paris (Los Angeles), the 1st L.A. dept. store
 * Coulter's
 * Dearden's
 * Desmond's (department store)
 * Dorian's Tijuana and across Mexico
 * Famous Department Store of L.A.
 * Fifth Street Store a.k.a. Walker’s, Milliron’s
 * Haggarty's - large-format clothing store
 * Harris & Frank - large-format clothing store
 * Iver's Glendale
 * Jacoby Bros. - a leading dept. store in early L.A.
 * Mandel's shoe stores
 * Marston's (department store), San Diego
 * May Company Building (Broadway, Los Angeles)
 * May Company Building (Mission Valley, San Diego)
 * May Company Building (Wilshire, Los Angeles)
 * Mullen & Bluett - large-format clothing store
 * Myer Siegel - large-format clothing store
 * Nash's, Pasadena
 * Phelps-Terkel
 * Rankin's Santa Ana
 * Reich and Lièvre
 * Robert's department store (Long Beach + 8 branches)
 * J. W. Robinson's
 * Silverwoods - large-format clothing store
 * Swelldom - large-format clothing store
 * Ville de Paris (department store)
 * Walker Scott department store

Shopping centers:
 * Anaheim Plaza
 * Broadway-Crenshaw Plaza - history, update
 * Broadway & 87th Street shopping center - first multi-supermarket center in L.A.
 * El Monte Shopping Center - former mall
 * Esplanade Mall (Oxnard, California)
 * Golden Mall, Burbank
 * Indian Hill Mall (defunct), Pomona
 * La Habra Fashion Square - former mall
 * La Jolla Village Square - former mall
 * La Mirada Mall - former mall
 * One Paseo, Rancho Santa Fe, S.D. Co.
 * Orange County Plaza - first large open-air plaza in OC, now a strip mall
 * Panorama City Shopping Center - first center with 4 dept. stores
 * Peninsula Center, Palos Verdes
 * Pomona Mall (defunct)
 * Promenade on the Peninsula, Palos Verdes
 * Shopping centers in Santa Fe Springs, California (3 former malls)
 * Town & Country Market - across from Farmer's Market, Fairfax District, L.A.
 * Valley Plaza - former open air mall
 * Westfield Mission Valley - added a lot to history section

Shopping districts and streets:
 * 7th Street (Los Angeles) - Los Angeles' upscale shopping street 1915-1950s
 * Broadway (Los Angeles) - incorporate theater district article, block by block table
 * Main Street (Santa Monica, California)

Atlanta-related

 * Arts in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
 * Street art in Atlanta
 * Music of Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then vastly expanded - Atlanta is the capital of one genre, hip-hop, and this had gone unacknowledged (hmmmm, wonder why)
 * Media in Atlanta
 * Sports in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
 * Museums in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
 * Nicknames of Atlanta
 * Film industry in Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Intown Atlanta

History of Atlanta

 * Atlanta freeway revolts (507 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
 * Gentrification of Atlanta
 * Racial segregation in Atlanta (1186 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
 * Template:Atlanta timeline
 * Atlanta Empowerment Zone

Buildings

 * List of Atlanta historic properties
 * 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue (I.M. Pei building & proposed mixed-use)
 * Aerotropolis Atlanta - Hapeville
 * Amsterdam Walk - VaHi
 * Ansley Mall
 * Armour Yard - train yard and future transit hub?
 * Atlanta Cabana Motel - Midtown (demolished)
 * Atlanta fire station 19 - oldest in city; VaHi
 * Atlanta Hotel - antebellum
 * Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal (planned)
 * Atlanta Rolling Mill - was near Oakland Cemetery
 * Atlanta Zero Mile Post
 * Atlantic Steel - now Atlantic Station
 * Avalon (Alpharetta, Georgia)
 * Beath-Dickey House - Inman Park Victorian - first one renovated, 1969
 * Briarcliff (mansion) - Candler son mansion
 * Briarcliff Hotel - VaHi
 * Briarcliff Plaza - Poncey-Highland
 * Callan Castle (Atlanta) - Asa Candler mansion #1
 * Callanwolde Fine Arts Center - Candler son mansion
 * Candler Mansion
 * Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose - extinct dept. store
 * Clifton Corridor - new transit project
 * The Colonnades - 1910s VaHi condos
 * Confederate Soldiers' Home - Grant Park (demolished)


 * Crossroads Shopping Center (Stewart-Lakewood Center)
 * DeGive's Opera House (demolished)
 * Druid Hills Baptist Church - Poncey-Highland
 * General Pipe and Foundry Company - Inman Park (demolished/converted)
 * Goat Farm Arts Center
 * Goodwin House (Brookhaven, Georgia)
 * Green B. Adair Mansion‎ - VaHi
 * Hammonds House Museum - West End
 * Holland House (Atlanta) (b. 1842 or 1848) - In the early 1900s, it was the oldest house in the city
 * Hotel Aragon
 * Huff House (b. 1854-5) - as of 1954 the oldest house in the city
 * Jeremiah S. Gilbert House
 * J.M. High Company - extinct dept. store
 * Kimballville Farm - Morningside
 * Kriegshaber House - Inman Park
 * Krog Street Market (1159 views/90 days as of 5/2/13)
 * Lanier University - "KKK university" in Morningside
 * Lemuel P. Grant Mansion - antebellum
 * Leyden House - antebellum mansion razed in 1913
 * Majestic Hotel (Atlanta)
 * Masonic Temple (Atlanta) (demolished)
 * Meadow Nook - antebellum house in East Lake
 * The Metropolitan (Atlanta condominium building) - ex-3rd Natl Bank Bldg
 * Miller's Rexall Drugs
 * Murder Kroger (article deleted)
 * Norcross Building


 * Northeast Plaza - Buford Hwy
 * Olympia Building (bldg w/Coca-Cola sign at Five Points)
 * Pappenheimer Mansion - later an infamous abortion hospital, then razed
 * Paramount Theater (Atlanta) - razed 1960
 * Peachtree Arcade
 * Peachtree-Pine shelter - Midtown
 * Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)
 * Ponce City Market - O4W (ex-Sears building)
 * Ponce de Leon amusement park - was on site of Ponce City Market
 * Ponce de Leon Springs (Atlanta) - was on site of Ponce City Market
 * Rainbow Terrace - (Lucy Candler's mansion, Druid Hills)
 * Republic Block - demolished 1873 commercial block @SE cor Pryor & Decatur
 * Rhodes Center - Midtown shopping, ½ demolished
 * M. Rich Building
 * Rio Shopping Center - 1988 kitsch/pop-art Mall by Arquitectonica, razed a decade later
 * Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center
 * State Bar of Georgia Building
 * Telephone Factory Lofts (Western Electric bldg), Poncey-Highland
 * Trout House - antebellum hotel
 * Union Station (1853)
 * Union Stationi (1871)
 * U.S. Post Office and Customs House (Atlanta) (City Hall 1911-1930)
 * Washington Hall (hotel) - antebellum
 * William-Oliver Building - 5 Points gem
 * W. W. Orr Building - SoNo gem

Historic districts

 * Emory Grove Historic District
 * Fox Theatre Historic District
 * Hotel Row
 * Howell Interlocking Historic District
 * Knox Apts. (et al.) Historic District
 * Means Street Historic District
 * Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District
 * Southern Railway North Avenue Yards Historic District
 * Sunset Avenue Historic District

Miscellaneous

 * Black mecca (1720 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
 * Invest Atlanta
 * List of inductees to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
 * List of tallest broadcasting towers in Atlanta
 * Living Walls (conference) (312 views/mo. 2013-02-17)
 * Trolleybuses in Atlanta
 * Utoy Cemetery, oldest in Atlanta

Neighborhoods extant and extinct
...plus some districts/areas and a couple small towns around Atlanta Stats indicate views/mo. as of 2013-02-17


 * Atkins Park (399 vpm)
 * Atlanta mixed-income communities (276 vpm)
 * Beaver Slide - slum
 * Bellwood (Atlanta)
 * Benteen Park
 * Chosewood Park
 * Copenhill
 * Darktown
 * Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta (1871 vpm)
 * Dixie Hills, Atlanta
 * Easton, Georgia
 * English Avenue and Vine City (4169 vpm)
 * Green Line (Atlanta development corridor)
 * The Gulch (Atlanta) (423 vpm)
 * High Point (Atlanta)


 * Jenningstown
 * Johnsontown (Atlanta)
 * Joyland (Atlanta)
 * Just Us (Atlanta)
 * Lakewood Heights (Atlanta)
 * Lenox Park (DeKalb County, Georgia)
 * Lightning (Atlanta)
 * history section of Lindbergh (Atlanta)
 * Lindridge/Martin Manor
 * Luckie Marietta (315 vpm)
 * Macedonia Park
 * Marietta Street Artery
 * Murrell's Row
 * Oakland (Atlanta)


 * Peoplestown (325 vpm)
 * Piedmont Heights (Atlanta)
 * Serenbe
 * Shermantown (Atlanta)
 * Sherwood Forest (Atlanta)
 * South Atlanta (559 vpm)
 * Starrsville, Georgia
 * State Square - antebellum Atlanta's main square (257 vpm)
 * SWATS (280 vpm)
 * Tanyard Bottom
 * Tributary, Georgia
 * U-Rescue Villa
 * University Park-Emory Highlands-Emory Estates Historic District
 * Venetian Hills, Atlanta

Streets

 * Edgewood Avenue
 * Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)
 * Ponce de Leon Avenue (revamp)
 * Tenth Street (Atlanta)

Parks and trails

 * Central Park (Atlanta)
 * Cheshire Farm Trail
 * Georgia International Plaza
 * Historic Fourth Ward Park
 * John Howell Memorial Park
 * Orme Park
 * Proctor Street Greenway
 * Renaissance Park (Atlanta)
 * Rodney Cook, Sr. Park

People
I have created pages for a few architects who were active in "old" Atlanta (roughly 1880s-1920s)
 * George W. Adair, Jr.
 * Cameron L. Alexander - civil rights leader
 * Edwin P. Ansley - developer of Ansley Park and the Hotel Ansley
 * A. Ten Eyck Brown - architect
 * Max Corput - architect
 * Willis F. Denny - architect
 * Thomas G. Healey - developer et al.
 * Enrico Leide
 * Lucy Beall Candler Owens Heinz Leide
 * G. Lloyd Preacher - architect
 * Damon Russell
 * Francis Palmer Smith (architect)
 * Mable Thomas - civil rights leader
 * Richard Copeland Todd - pioneer

Sculptures

 * The Bridge
 * The Flair
 * Homage to King

Templates

 * Template:Atlanta timeline
 * Template:Historic Districts in Metro Atlanta‎
 * Template:Former Atlanta neighborhoods
 * Template:Druid Hills
 * Template:Old Fourth Ward
 * Template:Virginia Highland
 * Template:World city population tables
 * Template:U.S. city population tables

Cuba

 * Candyman (reggaeton singer)
 * CMQ (Cuba) radio and tv network before the Revolution
 * Coppelia (ice cream parlor)
 * cleanup and expansion of Template:Cuba topics
 * Embassy of Russia in Havana
 * El Encanto department store (Spanish)
 * Orestes Ferrara, independence hero and editor of El Heraldo de Cuba
 * Fuente de la India fountain
 * Osmani García, Cuban reggaetón singer (2275 views/mo as of 2013-02-17)
 * Haitian Cuban
 * Havana Psychiatric Hospital - infamous conditions both before and after the Revolution
 * Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital - Cuba's premier hospital and the one that Michael Moore showed in Sicko
 * El Heraldo de Cuba an important national newspaper in the early 20th century
 * Italian Cuban, translated from Spanish
 * Template:Media in Cuba
 * Napoleon Museum (Havana)
 * Paseo del Prado, Havana
 * RHC-Cadena Azul
 * Aleksandr Rochegov, architect of the Russian Embassy in Havana

Mexico

 * Baja Med cuisine
 * Club Premier (loyalty program) and its part-owner Canadian company AIMIA
 * Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE, radical teachers' union)
 * E-commerce in Mexico
 * Gossip Girl: Acapulco (tv show)
 * Javier Sánchez (architect)
 * Koreans in Mexico (article renaming and expansion)
 * Los Ángeles Azules band
 * Torre KOI in Monterrey, which is planned to be the tallest building in Mexico 2015-2018

Mexico City

 * Acuario Inbursa
 * Condesa pocket park
 * Ecobici, a bike sharing system
 * Edificio México, art deco building in the Condesa
 * Eduardo García (Mexican chef)
 * Ernesto Buenrostro, art deco architect in the Condesa
 * Ex Temple of Corpus Christi
 * Francesco Saverio Cavallari
 * Francisco J. Serrano (architect, list of works)
 * Insurgentes 300
 * Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez
 * Jardín Ramón López Velarde
 * José Luis Cuevas (architect)
 * Los Ángeles Azules
 * Mercado de Medellín
 * Mercado Roma
 * Museo Archivo de la Fotografía
 * New Mexico City international airport
 * Parque Lira
 * Parques Polanco mixed-use development
 * Street vendors in Mexico City

Skyscrapers

 * Punto Chapultepec
 * Torre BBVA Bancomer
 * Torre Diana
 * Torre Mitikah, will be tallest building in city from 2015

Streets

 * Avenida Bucareli
 * Avenida Presidente Masaryk (overhaul)

Freeways

 * Arco Norte
 * Autopista Chamapa-La Venta
 * Autopista Peñón-Texcoco
 * Avenida Río San Joaquín
 * Circuito Exterior Mexiquense
 * Circuito Interior
 * Supervía Poniente

Neighborhoods

 * Arcos Bosques
 * Bosques de las Lomas
 * Condesa (overhaul and combination of multiple overlapping articles)
 * Interlomas edge city
 * Jewish neighborhoods in Mexico City
 * Lomas de Chapultepec (overhaul)
 * Mixcoac former independent municipality
 * Nuevo Polanco mixed-use development
 * Pequeño Seúl (Little Seoul)
 * San Jerónimo Lídice
 * San Lorenzo Xochimanca
 * San Miguel Chapultepec
 * Tecamachalco, State of Mexico

Shopping centers

 * Centro Santa Fe
 * Metrópoli Patriotismo
 * Paseo Interlomas shopping mall
 * Plaza Carso mixed-use development
 * Toreo Parque Central

Tijuana

 * Baja Med cuisine
 * Corredor Tijuana-Rosarito 2000 (freeway in NW Baja California)
 * Dorian's a former Tijuana-based department store
 * Downtown Tijuana
 * Javier Plascencia (chef)
 * Otay Mesa East Port of Entry
 * Plaza Río Tijuana
 * Plaza Viva Tijuana
 * revamp of articles on boroughs (Zona Río, lists of boroughs)

Netherlands

 * Albert Cuyp Market - translate Dutch version and curate
 * Alexander Klöpping - internet journalist - translated Dutch article to English
 * GETZ Entertainment Centre, Amsterdam
 * Jan Mesdag translated article about singer
 * NDSM
 * Nieuw Binckhorst, mixed-use development in The Hague
 * Overhoeks new neighborhood in Amsterdam

Georgia (country)

 * Georgian Parliament Building (Kutaisi)

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 concepts

 * Experiential retail

Southern Africa

 * Fourways Mall, Johannesburg, as of 2020 largest mall in South Africa
 * List of shopping centres in Namibia
 * List of shopping centres in Zambia
 * Stuttafords, department store in South Africa

Saint Petersburg & Russia

 * DLT (department store)
 * Esders and Scheefhaals building
 * Karelian Cyrillic alphabet
 * Lyubov Uspenskaya

San Diego (non-retail)

 * historic buildings: El Pueblo Ribera, Coromar Motel, Heilman Villas, Hollander Court, Islenair, Babcock Court
 * San Diego County Administration Center
 * its architect Louis John Gill, who also designed the San Diego Zoo in 1916 and whose research inspired the 1933 California earthquake codes (the Field Act (for schools) and the Riley Act (for all buildings))
 * United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California)
 * historic districts: Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District, Chinatown, San Diego
 * East Otay Mesa
 * Otay Mesa East Port of Entry

Washington, D.C.

 * Downtown Washington, D.C.
 * F Street and 7th Street shopping districts - the once-great historic downtown shopping district of Washington, D.C.
 * Pike & Rose mixed-used development in North Bethesda, Maryland

Mixed-use developments

 * Green Lisi Town, Republic of Georgia
 * Nieuw Binckhorst, mixed-use development in The Hague
 * Mohammed bin Rashid City in Dubai

Food halls

 * Anaheim Packing House
 * Platea Madrid, a gourmet food hall
 * The Source (food hall), Denver
 * Union Market. Washington, D.C.

Other stuff

 * The Audience (band)
 * Billy Reid (fashion designer)
 * Birgit Kronström - Finnish actress and singer - curate auto-translate from Finnish
 * Block 21, a mixed use development in Austin, Texas
 * Brooklyn Film Festival
 * Clutch (magazine)
 * Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area
 * German language in Namibia
 * Hale's department store, Sacramento
 * Honduran airlines: CM Airlines, EasySky, Lanhsa Airlines
 * James Whelton, Irish programmer and co-founder of CoderDojo, computer clubs for kids
 * K Street (Sacramento)
 * Las Americas Premium Outlets
 * List of U.S. cities by Spanish-speaking population
 * List of U.S. cities by foreign-born population
 * Metástasis, Spanish-language remake of Breaking Bad.
 * Mennonite Heritage Center
 * Minhocão (São Paulo) - road closed to traffic on Sundays
 * Oppilia region in Ukraine
 * Orgullosamente Latino Award
 * Puerto Rico:
 * English in Puerto Rico (2031 views/mo as of 2013-02-17)
 * Residente
 * PWA Moderne architectural style
 * Ritmoson Latino
 * Spišská Sobota translation to English
 * Teleset, Colombian producer of i.a. the Spanish version of Breaking Bad
 * The ONE Group
 * Tierra Santa (theme park)
 * Vitameatavegamin (1334 views/mo as of 2013-02-17)
 * West of India Portuguese Railway

Merged
 * Shona sculpture with sculpture-related detail from [{Art of Zimbabwe]] to Sculpture of Zimbabwe

Articles given major overhauls and contributions

 * Market (place)
 * Shopping center and shopping mall - separated the articles, because a mall is one type of shopping center, there are many other kinds of shopping centers.

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

 * History of Atlanta (major additions, cleanup, and structuring; black side of history was mostly missing)
 * created and added the Template:Atlanta timeline
 * List of former Atlanta street names

Other Atlanta

 * merged "North Atlanta, Georgia" into Brookhaven, Georgia
 * Rich's (department store) - added photo gallery and info about original buildings
 * Virginia-Highland (1734 views/mo as of 2013-02-17)