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It was called "The Mall," it was one story. It still has its anchor in the form of JCPenneys. We got soooo excited in the 90s when Bath and Bodyworks opened. It also remains but the rest is pretty empty.

Apparently it might actually close down . youtu.be/ZSMCNLpgZ5o?...

Our mall is mostly a hospital now. It’s pretty funny… you can go from the ER, to their pharmacy and straight to footlocker and I’m not joking.

Add a ", Muse," in there and I'm locked in for the thread

My local exurban mall went from having George Clooney doing a red carpet movie premiere in 2000 to making the Backrooms look like the Wonka Factory in about 15 years.

The weird mall I had a lot of affection for was in Carlsbad, where it had this giant kinetic sculpture like a giant kids' toy, only it featured billiard balls moving through a bunch of chutes and tubes to musical accompaniment

How much time you got?

Corvallis, OR. The Cannery Mall. It was apparently a former cannery. Small for a mall, all wood paneling and planks, lots of ramps instead of stairs, cozy and mellow and smelled like sugar cones from the ice cream place. Had a music store and bookstore and hairdresser and other shops. So cool.

I grew up in the Atlanta area. the big mall we went to, Gwinnett Place Mall, basically died in the early '00s. It had all of the 90s top spots and a really cool fountain. It was used for filming Stranger Things Season 3, and dang if I didn't enjoy seeing it again.

the town I live in doesn't have a mall, but about 30 minutes away in Tigard is Curiosities Vintage & Oddities: a huge space divided into stalls. it's like a combo flea market/craft fair/thrift.

I liked K-Mart.

Not my town, but when my family moved cross country in 2001 we stopped in Hayes, Kansas where they had a mall that was just called THE MALL. I bought a sweet glitter hoodie, as was the style at the time, and every time someone complimented it I'd be like "Thanks I got it at THE MALL"

That's actually a really good use of mall space! Is the school spread out in the mall, or confined to a former corner anchor building? A lot of municipalities would be well served by using dead malls. Each township could have a 2000-sqf office. Corner anchors could be schools, concert halls, etc.

K-Mart has been closed since 2018 or so. Just removed the sign in July 2026

In milwaukee the weird mall used to be the high end mall back in the day; as it is written by the mall gods Not only did it turn into a post apocalyptic mall w the anchor tenant became Linens & Things but the lower level became the international Clown Hall of Fame Research Center

The weird thing wasn't the mall. It was the guy next door who refused to sell his farmland to developers and kept working it even after it was surrounded by suburban sprawl.

Downtown Indianapolis has gotten so dangerous that the mall is struggling to attract consumers, and they've drawn up plans to turn the mf into a big, silly ass apartment building. An absolute eye sore! 🤣🤣🤣

Countryside Mall in Clearwater, FL. Has an ice skating rink in the middle of it.

You mean the one where the dead anchor store has been replaced by a giant aquarium?

All the shops were boutique-y. No anchor stores. Not near the subway. By 6 months after opening stores were going out. A cat rescue went in. A Spirit Halloween. It limped along for far longer than I expected. Finally closed/was sold last year.

We had this mall in Louisville where the food court was like down the escalators into a pit area. People shopping could look over the railing and watch you eating your chik-fil-a

Independence Mall here in Wilmington NC never quite recovered from COVID, so it currently features a sweet model train exhibit and a tiny aquarium while the real one is remodeled! www.starnewsonline.com/picture-gall... www.ncaquariums.com/newsroom-for...

It’s still attached physically to a Holiday Inn Express, but, I don’t think it’s accessible anymore. It’s fenced off, and it looks like it’s someone’s personal auto storage.

ours has a movie theater that lies about its real IMAX, a food court with three joints that might be open if you’re there, a spencer’s, victoria’s secret, and a very good dillard’s where i bought a nice suit for a cousin’s wedding two years ago. there’s an olive garden in the parking lot

It’s seen better days...

Midway Mall in Elyria, Ohio. Location alone should make it a winner (right off Interstate 90 and the Ohio Turnpike), but it’s been virtually deserted for a decade, and it’s next act has been debated for nearly that long. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_...

Tom had a business partner whom I never liked because he was just too businessy. Tom and I would far prefer living in a cushioned bubble over a few hours making arch comments on the customers, the shops that opened and closed too regularly, and the politics of the country.

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Used to be called Crossroads Mall before Wonderland and it was such a mess even in the 90s

I was gonna post but that seems pointless

Landmark Mall in Alexandria Virginia. I used to get my Michael Jackson-esque curly perms at a salon there as a kid. It was so frozen in time they filmed part of Wonder Woman 1984 on the premises -- the pinnacle of its fame. It was demolished in 2022. visitalexandria.com/wonder-woman...

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Who knows? No one goes there. We don't see it, don't speak of it. What happens there is no doubt best left to itself. It casts a shadow . . . oh, a deep shadow . . . never quite out of view—but we don't look. No, we don't see. But we *know*. Dear lord help us. We know.

My hometown mall was the Dawn of the Dead mall. It's still kicking and has a small Romero museum, but from what I've heard it's on life support. Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA

My very small town doesn’t have a mall. It has a market established in 1276 by royal charter, and running ever since. The market was actually there before the town, which grew up round it.

The butts centre reading. Dark and dingy with definite mould, high st shops at the front with tattoo shop and t-shirt printing and market clothes upstairs. Paper on floor constantly. Revamped in 90s as shiny and big shops, gradually reverted (but cleaner and now with a drs and gym at the top)

Anchored by an abandoned Rexall Drugs. I can’t remember there being any actual shops there but I do remember the old timey pharmacist/general store sign.

A triptych. Off center on purpose.

Monroeville mall - famous for the zombie movie filmed there.

The mall I grew up going to was the mall they used in Stranger Things. Does that count as weird?

Friend was walking in our hometown mall and a guy sucker punched him from behind, so he turned around and hit him tell he got knocked out. He was panicked, waiting to get arrested, but no one showed up or even cared so he just kept walking around the mall and left after a little bit.

I recently discovered that for years, Toronto has had a mall called Woodside Square that contains: life-sized resin dinosaurs, life-sized resin animals, real birds in giant cages (mostly tame types but also some owls??), random military vehicles and other stuff just in the middle area between shops

Mine was ½ an hour's drive away, in a bigger town, and there was a Woolco, a Safeway, a record store whose name I can't recall where I bought a Naked Raygun cassette knowing nothing about the band, a Hans Christian's toy store, a bookstore, and an A&W. Now I think it's a Safeway and a Walmart.

It’s was officially opened by the UK’s most notorious celebrity paedophiles Jimmy Saville.

Our closest mall was called Sunrise Mall, but it's more like "Sunset Mall" now .... mostly empty!

I miss the Santa Anita mall. Built on the old concentration camp I mean Japanese internment center, it’s now high end shops full of thriving, happy, and wealthy Asians. Plus it has a Kinokuniya, 99 ranch, Din Tai Fung, and a bingsu place. It also has like Coach and Dior, but yawn.

I'm a GenXer and grew up in the mall "glory days." They were so wonderful and tacky. The Galleria Mall in White Plains NY was our nearest, coolest mall. I drove past it a couple of years ago and it looked like a cubist dead whale rotting in the middle of town.

There was an outlet mall near Kansas City that had a pet store using some legal loopholes to stock pets that were wildly illegal to actually sell. I guess the logic was “we can possess but can’t legally sell you a sugar glider, but having it near the window will get people in the door”

I liked it! There was always something new to see or photograph. Chaotic good

I remember the Nutcracker, the chess set, the old comics shop, the new age store, the Wizards store, and of course the food court. And the live music. And the pipe family sculpture when it was there.

I can't clearly place the timing of most events in my life. Too much trauma.

dead as a corpse. burnt to ash. we camped there as boy scouts.

It had a gender-segregated Dillard's that always seemed strange to me. The women's Dillard's had a stage outside it where Britney Spears performed on her promo mall tour ca. late 1998/early 1999. The men's Dillard's always looked empty. It still exists in name as an outdoor walking situation.

Why tell you, when I can sing? Better yet, someone else already sang a tribute to Vancouver's Kingsgate Mall. youtu.be/5W7CiXm90sI?...

We have a dying mall so dying that for a while it had a hospice in it

By age 40 you should have a 240p only upload of teens wandering your already dead hometown mall from eighteen years ago in your box of wires