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June 19, 2008
I was with my friend Marco one late Thursday afternoon just cruising about when hunger struck, causing me to detour at the McDonald’s drive-thru around the El Dorado Shopping Center. Now, specially nowadays with the emergence of fancy, well-lit and ridiculously safe shopping malls lately, in comparison the El Dorado Shopping Center seems pretty shady, [...]
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September 11, 2007
The Dorado Shopping Mall (known in Spanish at Supercentro El Dorado) was the first of its kind in the country when it first opened in the late 70’s. From what my elders have told me, the whole Dorado district was a first for the country; constructed around the first avenue that would connect the entire [...]
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