They have Walking Dead shirts!!!
I just made this...
Posted on 04/28/2017 6:15:53 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Back to the Crabtree Mall. It was the best thing going back in the early 1980s. The main anchors were Ann & Hope, Lechmere and Zayre's with a nice food court that included the ubiquitous Orange Julius, Mrs Field's cookies, Auntie Jenn's Pretzels and some Chinese fast food joint in which you could get a heaping plate of rice and meat with Chinese women standing outside of it offering free samples of stuff on toothpicks. What was not to like?
Another anchor was Sears & Roebuck which was quite the store and they had dungarees, lawn mowers, washing machines and a huge section full of Craftsman tools as well as a huge furniture area and a bunch of TVs all tuned to the same station with some of them showing the picture constantly scrolling and in need of a v-hold adjustment. Remember the knob in the back of the TV in which you had to turn to keep the picture from scrolling? The Sears was so huge that they had escalators going to three levels.
The exterior corridor of the mall housed Pier 1 Imports, La-z-boy, Service Merchandise, Waldenbooks, Tape World, Brookstones, Pizza Hut, Ace Hardware, Jewelry store, Hickory Farms, Denny's, a video game arcade, Hallmark Cards, Spencer's Gifts, some candle store, CVS, Radio Shack, a multi-plex cinema showing movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and a bowling alley for bowling.
Never did well until they tore 1/2 of it out of there and rebuilt it to what it is today.
I used to LOVE Galyans when that opened, before Dicks bought it out.
Yes, no bus service from the hood and in a wealthy part of the metropolitan area.
I miss the Wish Book.
I used to love the Cabelas catalog too.
Now they’ve downsized their catalogs to specialty interests and only a small number of pages.
What’s a guy supposed to read while on the ...???
“Oldsmobiles? “
I hear they’re in early this year.
A lot of shopping areas have gone to many outside stores in one location to avoid “teens” who hang around and cause trouble.
Big hair!
I never was a mall shopper, used to go before Christmas and that was it for me but my daughters loved them. My daughters will not go to a mall now at all, they say they do not feel safe. I have gone to a mall maybe twice in the last year and it was empty. No one anywhere but the food court, it was creepy.
I remember when the mall was a kind of center of the universe. Sad to say but I think in time the mall will go the way of the drive-in movie.
I guarantee you they had no bus connections that America’s indigenous urban peoples could use to get there.
They have Walking Dead shirts!!!
I just made this...
Yep, that and the huge, awesome posters advertising new albums.
For that matter, album artwork pretty much died.
Whatever is on a CD, you can barely see it and *if* there’s a lyric sheet, you need a microscope to read it.
Gone are the days when Jethro Tull issued “Stand Up”, a “pop-up” gatefold, with Ian and the crew in 3D.
They’ve started selling vinyl again and it’s obscenely over-priced but I’m one of those audio-geeks who believe vinyl sounds better.
I still have my TEAC direct drive and a linear tracker, the brand of which I can’t recall without getting up to look.
I also have ION turntables that USB plug into your computer.
My Alienware M19 has Cerwin Vega external speakers.
:D
Ironically, digital music [bleh] is driving CDs into obscurity, now.
Dear old Pop called it "the throne." LOL. I always thought that was right term. The one spot a man overlooks his realm. These days, the reading room material is usually FR on the iPad.
Just to show how much things have changed.
Cat Stevens 1970
Well I think it’s fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want,
Cause you can get anything.
I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can’t get off.
Oh, I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you’ve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
‘Til there’s no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4DCxAi020
Birth name; Steven Demetre Georgiou
Also known as; Steve Adams
Born 21 July 1948 (age 68)
Marylebone, London, England
Years active
1965–80 (as Cat Stevens)
1995–present (as Yusuf Islam or Yusuf)
>I actually have not been in a mall in over 20 years.
Black Lives Matters is the death of malls. They come in huge packs to commit crimes and attack people or just fight among themselves. No one with money wants to go to a mall these days.
My sister and husband, who still live in my home town, ( we use to go to the City Mall), say they don’t go there anymore because it’s too dangerous.
I was so very disappointed went Cat Stevens when all jihad on us. His songs were so good, and he through it all away for Islam.
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