At least one of those was closed over forty years ago according to the caption.
And malls are dying, have been for the last few years. Quite a few of those pictures don’t directly relate to the current economy.
At least one of those was closed over forty years ago according to the caption.
That was the Dixie Square Mall in a south suburb of Chicago. They filmed the mall scene in The Blue Brothers there not long after it closed.
The Dixie Square Mall was where they filmed the Blues Brothers. It was empty then and they stocked it for the movie. We used to go there as kids back in the day. I'm so glad to be out of that cesspit.