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Particular-Bonus6571 t1_iwr36e4 wrote

Because all the millennials who grew up here remember when it was 95% cow pasture.

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ThatChildNextDoor OP t1_iwrbq9v wrote

I mean the brandermill area past Woodlake was just that in the early 2000s.

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Particular-Bonus6571 t1_iwrgqgl wrote

Sure, but no one really goes out of their way to go to Brandermill if they don’t have to. There were no movie theaters in Richmond pre-Movieland, and all the city-folk occasionally went out to Short Pump to catch a movie, seeing the cows and the weird store with the airplane on top on the way. That pretty picture very quickly turned into the sprawlscape that it is today.

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