Current Events > Walking round dead malls is an emotional experience

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Especial when they are local mall that you used to go to when they were popular.

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yea well walking around your mom is even more emotional...because it take so long!

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It is. Idc what people say about how people talk about future generations.

but living in the 90 to 2000s internet boom was great. Got to live the best of both worlds. Before the over reliance of technology and the amazement of using it. We used to call used game stores to see if they had an N64 game we were looking for, looking up movie times on phone pages. Being dropped off at the mall and picked up later

the last Time I seen kids at the mall was they made a plan for hundreds to swarm it and start a fight. They caused chaos and were just stealing shit every from everywhere

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What malls do you go to? Do you break in or are you allowed to just walk right in?

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Agreed. Highland Mall in Austin, TX was THE PLACE TO BE on weekends. It was sad to see how dead that place became. Now it's an Austin Community College campus.

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All those 80s and 90s sitcom episodes about how bad the rise of malls was really hit different now

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I went to a mall yesterday that was a ghost town. A lot of empty stores. Spirit of Halloween would be licking their chops if they saw that

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Or do you mean malls that are still around, but just aren't popular anymore? As opposed to abandoned malls?

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Traditional malls around here seem to have been replaced by the open air variety. Those kinds are still pretty popular. Honestly, I don't understand why though. They look nicer but they're functionally the same

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They were pretty boring honestly, full of nothing but overpriced junk, and little to no activity, to do or expore. I would have loved to have been a kid during the arcades peak though.

Sad how sort it was before consoles took over.

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Idk where this malls are dead shit came from

In NJ malls never died

Dead mall means it lost its popularity.

Abandoned buildings is something else.

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We had two. The one on the west side of town has been booming since the early 00s, and is always packed.

The one on the east side - which was the most popular one in the 80s and 90s - suffered in the last 20 years. It was the most depressing place to go to. They finally closed it a couple of years ago, and tore it down this year

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@AlCalavicci posted...

Or do you mean malls that are still around, but just aren't popular anymore? As opposed to abandoned malls?

Have you been to an actual dead mall? Theyre a very real thing. Theyre not closed off to the public or anything but arent popular anymore doesnt do them justice, theyre basically empty corridors with one or two operating stores near the entrances keeping them afloat, Westridge Mall in Fergus Falls is a good example:

https://imgur.com/bTewCH1

They killed Downtowns...It was a failed experiment...Fuck them.
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Dying malls as well, not just ones that are basically empty.

But walking around a truly dead mall is pretty eerie.

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SiO4 posted...

They killed Downtowns...It was a failed experiment...Fuck them.

Yeah fuck malls.

I saw a video recently where the guy who designed the first American malls took a look at them in retrospect and was like "wow these suck"

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The mall near me is still doing well. Young women still go there and walk around in their tightest clothes.

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darkprince45 posted...

but living in the 90 to 2000s internet boom was great. Got to live the best of both worlds. Before the over reliance of technology and the amazement of using it. We used to call used game stores to see if they had an N64 game we were looking for, looking up movie times on phone pages. Being dropped off at the mall and picked up later

I agree with all of this, kind of miss those days actually.

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PC_Genjin posted...

Have you been to an actual dead mall? Theyre a very real thing. Theyre not closed off to the public or anything but arent popular anymore doesnt do them justice, theyre basically empty corridors with one or two operating stores near the entrances keeping them afloat, Westridge Mall in Fergus Falls is a good example:

https://imgur.com/bTewCH1

No, I haven't, but when I first read the topic I assumed TC meant abandoned malls which I imagine are pretty spooky. I can imagine walking through a dead mall would be pretty surreal too tho

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Lmao yep. I remember later on, my mom let me borrow the old Nokia brick phone.



looked like this. Used to play snake on it

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dolomedes posted...

getting dropped off with a quarter to call home when you're ready to go XD
(until you learn the collect call trick to save that quarter - or maybe even $.35 by that point!)

'you have a collect call from... i'm-ready-come-get-me... do you wish to accept charges?'

Hahaha, Yes!!
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ToysRus I went to as a child closing was a sad thing.

I still went there as a grown man tbh :ppp

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Traditional malls around here seem to have been replaced by the open air variety. Those kinds are still pretty popular. Honestly, I don't understand why though. They look nicer but they're functionally the same

This. They are everywhere in developing cities. Functionally they are exactly the same and Im not sure why these have become the new norm. I guess its more trendy for them to just be outside? I dunno.

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My mall is still decently popular, which makes me happy. But I've been to malls where there are more empty store fonts than actual stores and nobody is around. It is depressing. A good mall is a wonderful thing.
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Butterfiles posted...

Yeah fuck malls.

I saw a video recently where the guy who designed the first American malls took a look at them in retrospect and was like "wow these suck"

there is literally a brand new shitty hot take for everything isnt there

Theres one mall in Omaha thats still pretty popular but the rest are dead, one finally got torn down last year after like 15 years of having maybe 5 stores open

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ClunkerSlim posted...

They didn't just kill my mall, they anally raped it's corpse.

jesus

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ClunkerSlim posted...

<u>No one has me beat...</u>

Because the mall I use to hang out in as a kid, was turned into the headquarters for Epic Games. My mall is currently shitting out Fortnite to the rest of the world. They didn't just kill my mall, they anally raped it's corpse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Towne_Center

LOL!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMR524m0BM

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Damn, this topic is depressing.

Used to love going to Midway Mall, in Sherman, Tx. I'm not sure if it is still open, but there wasn't much to see the last time I was there.


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Katy mills mall and Galleria are still great the rest meh

I e always wanted to do this ever since discovering Dan Bell's channel on YouTube. Some of the atmospheres are just chilling, especially when you have stuff like two restaurants in the food court somehow still operating after everything else has shut down.

There's a defunct Halloween supply store around here with a clown in the window I want to check out like this. Just don't have any access...

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Southeast michigan saw about 5 major malls fall in the last 20 years. I walked all of them when they were dying. The saddest was the Livonia Mall. The old theater. The tiled food court with the waterfall. And creepy ass Dr Office. Just so sad to see it all rot. Then it became a Walmart like most others did.

You can live this right now if you are in the area with the Westland mall. Many doors are shuttered, and the few that are left are just lingering. You just walk around with echoing ambient music in an empty mall. Its exactly like those segments of Dawn of the Dead.

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They've literally started demolishing parts of the closest mall. I had some fond memories of the Electronics Boutique and this NASCAR store that used to be there.

Now it's just a gym, JCPenny and the food court's immediate area. The rest is gone

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Especial when they are local mall that you used to go to when they were popular.

i very much agree

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They built too many too fast during the start because they were used as tax shelters or some shit

Are there any good documentaries about this?? This topic kinda got to me lol.

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https://www.youtube.com/c/RetailArchaeology/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JiP-j2FwM

love retail archaeology

ScazarMeltex posted...

I walked around Crestwood Mall here in Saint Louis before they demolished it. Took me back to 97-98 when we spent every Friday there. So many good memories.

Guaranteed you spent at least one quarter on a NAOMI based arcade game!!
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I was a mallrat from the ages of 13 to 16 and they were great memories. Laser tag/arcade, smoking pot behind Applebees, learning how to get with chicks, tossing in on some chinese food with a buddy.

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Yeah it makes me sad to see the death of malls. Amazon really killed everything.

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