We had the Columbia Center Mall in the Tri-Cities, WA in 1969, and when I went to Tech School in Denver in early 1972, Cinderella City was already thriving.
“On the Road” with Charles Karuit, great family viewing before both were history
Oak Park Mall is still there, hanging on, but barely.
They’ve had a couple of shooting in or just outside the food court, you know the drill, somebody disrespected somebody else.
The mall where I used to shop, Bannister Mall, lasted 22 years, then it was shuttered and torn down. In its prime, it had wonderful little shops and restaurants, besides the big chain stores. Now, it is the “campus” for Cerner Corp.
Now we have big outside shopping areas, made to look like old-timey downtowns. Not the same and they’ll be gone when the tax credits run out.
Anybody here remember Eastland Mall in Charlotte, NC? I learned how to ice skate there! Many many fond memories of that place.
The hair was a bit fluffed or puffed, I don’t know how to describe, but you don’t see hair that way too much anymore.
Teen age fun.
But the mother ship was the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, center of the planet for the Valley Girls.
Just a few minutes ago I was going through some old books and found a receipt from the Two Guys (from Harrison) camera department. For flashbulbs.
Yup, I remember going to the mall on a regular basis. Then after hours in the winter, it was a great place to do donuts in the snow. Made us all better drivers really but the cops would run us off eventually.
Even before the lockdown it was in trouble...many stores,including Sears and JC Penny had closed. But now it's a ghost town.It seems that about half the stores are closed...including Lord & Taylor just recently. I cut through Nordstrom's to to the "walking trail" and it's *always* deserted...except for staff.
I just hope it lasts until the day I'm confined to a wheelchair...or walker...but I don't see how it can.
The difference is that a few judges decided that malls are PUBLIC PLACES and with that, they can no longer kick out undesireables.
That’s how much power judges have and that’s why it’s so important to have people like TRUMP nominating them.
My first job after college was Assistant Manager at Jeans West at Oak Park. I was never a huge fan of the mall - my heart was always at Metcalf South, RIP.
Take note of the fact Kuralt and CBS are doing a hit job on malls.
Great picture. Big hair, mullet, fanny pack, spandex, and pens in the shirt pocket. What a great snapshot of the time.
I shopped at malls in the early 70’s when I was in Jr High. But once I could drive, I rarely went to malls. In fact, the main reason I went to the mall was to people watch and get a starbucks, once starbucks started opening in them. I did spend money in the arcade.
I always thought mall prices were too high.
Come to think of it, my wife and I were big fans of Bombay. We got some furniture and stuff there.
What a difference between then and now. Well, it was forty years ago.
A classmate worked as a clerk at a Kodak store in our mall late 70’s while in HS, then manager, then district manager, then regional manager of 6 states. Let go from in late 90’s/early 2000 when cell phones and digital cameras took over. He told me at a reunion he thought he had a job for like..I mean who would of thought Kodak going out of business
Chris Rock had a hilarious standup bit about how every town had a white mall and a black mall. (I guess he’s racist!)
Drove up from Topeka often.
Wow. That could have been the Ocean County Mall here in NJ. Man. Look at that big hair. Those were the days.