“Many malls are dying because they are becoming nothing but places for teens to hang out and cause trouble.”
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Thru most the 80s-early 90s malls were usually pretty safe as teen hangouts and there usually weren’t many big/violent fights. Kids were there to just hangout, meetup, window shop and some performers even made promo mini-concert appearances, e.g. “Tiffany”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78
“Thru most the 80s-early 90s malls were usually pretty safe as teen hangouts and there usually werent many big/violent fights......”
I remember that. We would go to the mall, play video games, buy record albums, look/buy books at the book store. Hangout. Now it’s these feral kids, we know what kind that are making it unsafe.