Oak Park Mall (1982)

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[jmacusa]

I lived on Chestnut St. between Quincy and Oakwood Ave.

[jmacusa]

Wow. Didn’t know they had one up there.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Also known as “mall hair.”

[csvset]

The SunValley Shopping Center in Concord, Ca. was a big deal when it opened in ‘67.

SunValley Shopping Center

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[P.O.E.]

I lived on Devon, not far from the North Arlington border.

I miss the local butcher shops (meat pies, pasties, bridies, etc.) Is the Argyle still there, I wonder - best fish & chips this side of the pond. Went to a Burns’ Supper there one year - what a hoot.

IIRC, there was a great bar towards the middle of town with a shuffleboard table.

[jmacusa]

Nah. All the Scot bakeries are gone. The only thing in English in Kearny anymore are the street signs. Was the bar you're talking about on Kearny Ave. across from the library?

[P.O.E.]

I think so. I used to car pool to work with a group of Scots & Irishmen, so we usually made several stops on the way home.

[jmacusa]

Oh man, now I’m going to go nuts trying to think of the name of that bar.

[G Larry]

Shopping?

Malls were for hanging out and girl watching!

[cuban leaf]

Yeah, the “Tape world” thing caught my eye too, especially being a hi-fi salesman between 1976 and 1983.

there was a SNL skit where they visit a tape store in a dying mall. The joke was that the store only specialized in the “sticky kind”, and not the magnetic kind.