A lot of space in this mall...
Have they changed?
I actually have not been in a mall in over 20 years.
Shopping malls were a family destination back then. Now, they are a hunting ground for feral gangs and a place for muslims to operate their crappy cell phone accessory business kiosks.
There is a mall near me with a food stand in the Food Court — the stand is called “Texas BBQ”.
They serve: Eggs rolls, Pork Lo Main, General Tsao’s Chicken, and Sweet and Sour Chicken. You know: typical Texas stuff.
But I don’t go to malls very often — most of them have too many young Amish hoodlums.
Ahh, the local malls... THE place to pick up chicks if you were a yute back then.
...until they decided to run the bus lines in from the inner city...
I would love to take a time machine back to a 1980s mall and just take in the scene.
In the 80’s you could buy a handgun in the sporting goods store.
Did they have Dippin’ Dots? (The ice cream of the future.)
I looked up on Google streetview and saw that the one featured in “Back to the Future” is still around, minus the JC Penney, of course.
Oahu is about the only place that still has a vibrant mall I have visited in decades.
I was visiting family in Fresno last summer and for the heck of it stopped at a mall there. My God. It looked like I landed in Kinshasa.
I have fond memories of a few malls from the 1980s when I was a kid. My parents used to take me at a young age and as I got older we did the “meet up here at X o’clock” thing. I learned some life lessons about shopping, money, society and the rest. Some of my favorites were Waldenbooks and B. Dalton, any comic book store, Kay-Bee Toys and the music stores. I remember buying 45 rpm singles until the tide turned to cassettes.
Plus at Christmas time it had a magical feel, when the big name department stores would decorate to the nines and the malls would do their bit in the center areas.
I think I was in a mall maybe five or six years ago because of poor planning on my part at Christmas. It was my first visit to a mall in years and it was a miserable experience because very little of the above remained.
The fact is I don’t buy that much anymore, Amazon and other online stores are often superior in price and convenience for much of what I do need, and society has coarsened and devolved. That’s why malls are now a fondly remembered “thing of the past” for me.
The mall nearest me still seems to be holding up pretty well. It has a couple of design features that, I think, discourages the ferals and other crowd problems. There are no theaters and there is no food court. All food outlets are dispersed throughout the mall and they all have their own seating areas.
“Service Merchandise”
Now there’s a blast from the past.
That mall is dying.I go there regularly because it's a great place for "mall walkers" when the weather's bad.Except for Christmas time and the odd rainy Saturday the place is deserted.There are empty store parcels everywhere.
No problems with punks/gangs that I've heard of...I suspect that the problem is internet shopping.
All retail is aimed at welfare culture. That’s where the money is; the redistributed money. The mall near us is almost entirely black — they bus them in from the city.
The only refuge from the underclass are places with no bus service. If you have a car, you can get away from the rabble.
Wow...Lechmere...memories.In the 60’s I was a huge music fan,some of what I liked was hard to find.I’d hop on the Green Line,pay my dime,and got off at Lechmere Station.In the record Department I’d ask at that counter for the album I wanted and 90% of the time they had it.Their “typical” albums were $2.90 back then.