[SamAdams76]

The mall in my area is having a resurgence - the Danbury Fair Mall in Connecticut.

That is the mall I go to walk in on rainy days because I try to walk at least 5 miles every day.

Over the past few years, it has added many stores as well as a huge entertainment center with billiards tables, ping pong, video games, skee ball, etc.

Crowds are coming back. I guess it's all about the location. Danbury (in Fairfield County) is a rather upscale area. The mall in nearby Bridgeport is mostly dead because it's in a run down ghetto.

When I came of age in the 1970s and 1980s, the mall was the place to be (see below for a mall vintage 1982). In certain areas, it does seem to be on the comeback.

[Jane Long]

Sam....this is wonderful!! Sounds like our teens were very similar.

We had lunch, today, in the TX Hill Country, at a place that was playing all of the old 70s/80s songs!

Our malls are no go zones, unfortunately.

However....where my sweet aunt lives (and, we visit OFTEN), there are two BIG malls that are like a throwback to the 80s!!

I take her shopping there (there’s a Dillards, which she loves), and, I meet my cousin, there, and we walk the mall ... just like we did, in our teens 😂

I can’t tell you the location, as it is super secret 🤫. Still safe, and, still a great day of shopping, lunching, walking, etc.

PS ... I walk about 4-5 miles, daily, as well.

[dfwgator]

[Deplorable American1776]

The mall in my area is having a resurgence - the Danbury Fair Mall in Connecticut

Westfarms Mall is doing good,too.

[Bob434]

[[When I came of age in the 1970s and 1980s, the mall was the place to be]]

Same- the mall had everything practically, a theater, food courts- cool stores with oddball merch, nutrition stores, several shoe spots- it was just the place to go and hang out, have lunch or dinner, snacks, and catch a movie-

our local mall though is now a sorry remnant of what it used to be-

[Secret Agent Man]

These old pics confirm what I say. Mostly white people, malls were safe and fine.

You found a rare pic of a black family couple walking together, more common then, but now...