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.
During the early 1980s, I went there all the time. Before compact discs became the main format, I was buying cassettes all the time. As well as blank ones to tape off the radio.
Sometime in 1982, I picked up "Escape" by Journey in that store. I literally wore it out and eventually re-bought it on CD.
Forty years later, they are still playing the hell out of "Don't Stop Believing".