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.
Agreed, I had the same disappointment when my favorite Christian artist, Jennifer Knapp reemerged after 4+ only to declare herself a Lesbian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9gxLZG_Rw
And that explains why Calvinism doesn’t work
And that explains why Calvinism doesn’t work
I hadn’t thought about that aspect but it does make sense.
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Harvey, Illinois. Shithole extraordinaire. Dixie Square Mall was open only 12 years and before it closed, some 10 people had been murdered in or near the mall. Even after the new police station for the city was built in one of the malls outlots.
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Memphis once had a decent mall. The Mall of Memphis. It was great to go to for several years. Then the feral thugs showed up and the long decline ensued. There were several murders there giving it the nickname The Mall of Murder. It shut down a couple of years after the first few killings. It’s completely gone and a new building is going up in its place. I wish the owners more luck than the last owners of the space.
BTW, there is a neat website, deadmalls.com. It’s an interesting site.
Are you talking about Ala Moana Shopping Center or the one on the Kam Highway out near Aiea Heights?
You can still do that here in Oregon...
We go up 290 maybe once or twice a year ( not an extraordinary excursion by any means, but that's another story ... ) to go to the Rainforest Cafe with the GK's. Not sure how long this phase will last, but they love it.
I like Rainforest. It taps in to my inner child.
With me, that’s not very inner.
Well, at least he didn’t sing about it.
Do you always sit next to the tigers :-?
Elephants or apes
Well, in my case, it takes me longer to pee than to poop, I’m a champ at that. But either way, reading isn’t on the agenda.
“And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming”
Mmmm. I can only say that these options don’t apply at the Woodfield Mall Rainforest Cafe.
The only time I ever saw a movie in the building where the movie was filmed was when I was a teen and saw Valley girl in the mall where it was filmed.
Hickey is closed now no?
Those open air malls serve a purpose
Easier to hvac and no loitering
Providence and the Avenue
The Colony in Jax Miss
That big one in Destin
Waterside in Naples FL
I rarely go to malls any more, but I did visit the nearest one afternoon maybe a year ago.
I entered at one end through an anchor store, and once inside the mall proper, I noticed the noise level was far above normal, and it increased exponentially as I neared the center of the mall.
It turned out the store I wanted to use had closed, and that day was the grand opening of a new clothing store. Later research revealed that the new store was one that concentrated on “ghetto chic”.
They were playing something resembling music at ear splitting volume, and there was a group of “dancers” jumping around in front of the store, like something out of National Geographic. The reverberation from the “music” made it sound like a continuous screech that was actually painful.
Realizing that my trip was a waste, I retreated to the food court. What I found was that a large group of “teens” had assembled and was raising a ruckus of their own. I chose my table carefully with particular emphasis on an easy exit route in case that became necessary.
I used to go there regularly, but now I stay away if at all possible, and would NEVER go there after dark.
Big changes - lots of empty slots and lots of yawning clerks.
my mom bought a gun in Woolworths in the 70’s.
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