The neighborhoods we pass every day hold stories worth knowing. Behind the storefronts on Macdonald Avenue and along the Richmond shoreline are three generations of families who watched this city change — and stayed.
Point Richmond, in particular, feels like a place time treated gently. Its historic district — brick storefronts, a handful of blocks you can walk in ten minutes, the kind of corner bar that has outlasted three different economies — sits just far enough from the freeway to feel like its own small town, even though it has been part of Richmond since before the city’s shipyards existed.
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