The Downtown Mall turns 50 this year. As a transplant to Charlottesville, the Mall has felt so intimately woven into the fabric of this beloved town that it’s hard to imagine a time before its existence. The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s exhibition “Then & Now: Charlottesville in the 1970s” allows visitors to time travel back to that transformational decade through newspaper articles, photos (with baby trees), and painted portraits of local pioneers.
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Visiting the “Then & Now: Charlottesville in the 1970s” exhibition in the VAULT Virginia first-floor gallery…