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Fifty Years of Charlottesville's Mall | Richmond News
Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall turns 50, and the city is celebrating with a vibrant weekend of events, including tours, concerts, a lantern parade, and a disco dance party — all part of a new exhibit, “Then and Now: Charlottesville in the 1970s,” exploring how leaders and activists shaped the town. This pedestrian mall, one of the few from the 60s and 70s still thriving, was born amid the ruins of the historic Vinegar Hill neighborhood — a Black community erased by urban renewal. Its creation was a tense battle, ultimately decided by just two council members in 1974. Now, as the mall marks…
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