Posted on 05/10/2002 8:07:23 AM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Peter Blackbird has learned you can't argue with a dog. Messing with homeless people isn't such a smart idea either.
Still, braving the unknown is just part of the territory when your hobby is checking out dead and dying shopping centers.
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Maybe you could introduce her to Lazamataz. He seems to have the same interest.
Yeah, but the Dolphin Mall's death was a doozy since it happened so quickly. This wasn't one of those malls that take years and years to slowly die. The Dophin Mall opened just a year ago to much fanfare and then promptly dropped dead immediately.
Too late for the niece. I'm getting married in 11 days. :o)
Those are my favorite kind of movie theaters. BTW, why don't you set up shop at the Dolphin Mall? I hear that the owners are so desperate that they will give you free store rental.
Greengate is going to be renovated as a Magport.
(A very financially shrewd proposal!)
FWTC was on a downhill swing even back in the 80s, when my brother got jumped and beaten within an inch of his life with no provocation by 15 or 20 gangbangers at a Putt Putt golf course near the mall. (Sidenote: Some friends of mine helped me track down all but 4 of the punks, several of whom have since regained the ability to walk). FWTC has lost most of its anchor stores, and establishments such as nail salons, various permutations of the Dollar Store, and head shops are about all that's left these days.
Sears Roebuck, one of the few remaining "legitimate" retailers in the complex, tried to pull out a few years ago but were essentially blackmailed into staying with threats of discrimination lawsuits and activist pickets at their other stores by political leaders in the area. I recall that Sears finally beat feet just last year, as did Dillards.
No one I know goes there any more - its inconvenient to have to do your shopping with one hand on your pocketbook and the other on a can of pepper spray.
Yeah, if I weren't moving, me and my friends could get together, take over the empty stores and start the first Scamway Supercenter.
The fact is the market down here is not bid enough for two Sawgrass Mills, even if the Dolphin got respectable tenants like myself.
Hey, I need to get some Zip memory disks so this Sunday I'll be there and pick them up for just a few bucks each!
Ah! One of the best places to watch hot Latin chix in South Florida. Maybe I'll go there this Sunday after the Swap Shop. (Hint: You can ride all you want in South Florida on the Tri-Rail for just $4 on the weekends and take a free Metro Rail transfer over to the Bayside Marketplace.)
Considering that its run by Naz.., er, Germans, I guess you're right. The problem being, that the Company's designs for Dadeland are similar to those of Town Center, where a rationally planned well organized mall was turned into a high ceilinged abomination with paths between stores less linear than they were. Dadeland, however, need renovations as it still looks like 1987 despite remaining popular.
All the hot non-Latin chick told me yesterday as we were driving past the Dolphin Mall was that they weren't charging the store owners rent. I don't know the exact details.
Hey! Congratulations in advance, Laz!
Where's the honeymoon going to be? Mall of America?
Or are you going someplace where you can buy steenking cheap imports direct?
;^)
A true South Florida experience, where Indian and Chinese merchants try to hawk grey market foods on unsuspecting retirees, Jamaicans, Central Americans and Canadians. It's capitalism at its purist and reminsicent of the Bazaars of old.
Why have a breakfast nook when you can have a FOOD COURT! Congrats on impending nuptuals.
And his son, Luke Mallwalker?
Yeah, and it's FUN to shop there. Selling there, however, is really horrible. I used to do that once upon a time but the long Thursday early AM "cattle herd line" and lousy sales turned me off to that particular experience. Buying at the Swap Shop is still a hell of a lot more interesting than shopping at the sterile malls.
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