Grew up during mall culture as a male, great days, Jeff Bezoz wiped it out, with all the dead malls out there.
Flame away.
Posted on 03/07/2025 1:41:56 PM PST by DallasBiff
Sky 4 flies over the former Century III Mall as demolition continues
The demolition began last year and is expected to finish sometime in 2026.
The mall has been closed since 2019. JCPenney, the last remaining store, closed its doors in 2020..
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Grew up during mall culture as a male, great days, Jeff Bezoz wiped it out, with all the dead malls out there.
Flame away.
I’ve seen the Dead Malls site, and there seem to be quite a few such malls around the country.
I remember Landover Mall, in the Washington, DC area, opening in the 1970s. I remember my father said, that the mall would face difficulties. It’s probably verboten to say why he concluded that, but I recall him observing there were too many of certain types of people. He said they would not be good customers of the stores there, plus he said they would scare off good customers.
Eventually that mall was torn down, after a long decline in which major retailers abandoned the place.
Amazon did wreck many malls. I sure do miss the two now-closed ones near me. Amazon wrecked many small independent businesses, too.
On the other hand, here’s a rather dull story I’ve told before:
A couple of years ago I found myself in need of a simple tie clasp. I like to shop local, so I went to four different local variety stores looking for one. Three didn’t have any. One had a solid silver clasp for something like $90.
So I went to Amazon. There were hundreds of different tie clasps to choose from, all reasonably priced. I bought one there.
Whaddaya gonna do?
We still have a busy mall in Franklin TN.
Sometimes, Father knows best!
We can admit it, now that we’re adults.
It was already dying before Bezos created Amazon.
We still have five or six large and thriving malls near us in the Silicon Valley area. I rarely go there, though.
Nice picture. Brings back memories, particularly of Orange Juilius with a raw egg in the drink. Those were the days!
Yeah. And now there's the internet. A different kind of ocean.
We’ve got one near Greenville, SC. Still pretty busy on weekends.
We live about 1 mile South of Green’s Point (”Gun’s Point” to locals), what used to be the 3rd largest mall in the country. A Fitness Conection and a uniform shop are the only stores there now.
Since the early 80’s, we’d go to the “Gallery”, downtown Philly. We had good times there.
Haven’t been back since the 90’s.
The King of Prussia (KOP) Mall in PA is still nice but the foot traffic is not there like it used to be...
Malls died because of changing demographics in many areas. People didn’t feel safe with groups of thugs and gangs hanging around.
I think Bezos keeps “teens” on staff to destroy malls, and walgreens, and shoe stores, and waffle house, and Popeys, and KFC, and Walmart and....
Hickory Hollow is dead as is Bellvue and Rivergate is not doing well. Harding Mall died years ago. Cool Springs and Green Hills malls are doing well because they don’t have many of a certain type of youths there. Fountain Square never had a chance.
Hickory Hollow became a gang hang out. Antioch is awful. Lived on Murfreesboro near the airport for 4 years.
Yeah, Cool Springs doesn’t get “those” kinds of youths.
I don’t go there anyway. No need.
I remember Harding mall dying. 100 Oaks is now mostly offices.
IF you have a white face at Antioch High School, you are in the minority. My house is out in the country near Lebanon. One of my daughter’s friends is from Antioch and was alarmed that the back door was left open and unlocked with just an unlocked glass storm door. My daughter explained that we have never had anyone bother the place.
Not all malls are dead,palm beach gardens mall is nice and had a Santa around Christmas time when I went to that mall.
First on in about 12 to 15 years.stoped going because of crime where I lived, movie theaters too. To much crime inside and in the parking lots,went to boot barn and work wear stores.
There are people who walk into places like Hickory Hollow and think "how can I wreck this?"
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