My heart broke the last time I visited a Fry’s. A shadow of its former self.
The lone cashier looked at me like, “Oh, you hadn’t heard, huh?”
I don't think they ever sold "MP3s" at Sam Goody. He probably meant CD's.
Our local mall was nearly deserted this year.
We’ve lost Penney’s, Sears, the tow ‘anchors, Dillards (an upscale dept store) is closing and all that’s left is small ‘urban’ fashion stores that have very ugly clothing.
Rumor is that the mall will be torn down and replaced with condos...................
A friend texted that a woman she knew “waited ‘til Mary’s water broke” to finish her Christmas shopping. That would be a man’s signal to start shopping.
If they tear down the malls, where will the gangs hang out?
Bee. Funny. Woolworths. Borders. (I actually liked to spend time in both of those places myself.)
Here’s a funny Babylon Bee video that I haven’t seen posted yet.
“Calvinist Santa Puts Everyone On Naughty List”
https://babylonbee.com/video/calvinist-santa-puts-everyone-on-naughty-list
I’m surprised he didn’t just go into a phone booth and check the yellow pages directory there for some alternatives.
At one trip to Woolworths you could get fabric, Evening In Paris perfume, and the best hot dogs ever. (And in Anchorage, the best souvenirs.)
Knoxville Center Mall - torn down and an Amazon warehouse built in its place.
Amazon warehouse never opened. It just sits there vacant.
” but I used to love getting malts at the Woolworth soda fountain.”
I remember those but didn’t have the money for malts.
Sears, Western Auto
Heh. Don’t laugh.
I’ve been there.
-PJ
My heart broke the last time I visited a Fry’s. A shadow of its former self.
The lone cashier looked at me like, “Oh, you hadn’t heard, huh?”
My Christmas Eve shopping strategy came through again this year
They already tore the mall down near where I live and rebuilt it as a large strip mall complex. I don’t think it has any of the big anchor stores anymore.
AMC movie theater, Publix, and Sprouts, are the largest.
I hope it can hang one for a few more years because it's very close to me,it has *great* underground parking and it's a great place to walk when it's hot...cold...raining...snowing. But given all the empty space I'm not optimistic.
I'd get there first thing in the morning and work work my way around both levels of the Crabtree Mall (or whatever it was called). Sears was a major stop for me and I actually had a Sears credit card with something like a $400 limit, a lot of it spent on Craftsmen tool products. You could also buy your wife a vacuum cleaner or a food processor back then and not get thrown out of the house.
Lechmere was also a major stop for me. That was a now defunct Northeastern chain that was somewhat similar to a Kohl's today, except with more electronics. I had a Lechmere store card as well.
Inside the mall, regular stops included Sharper Image, Radio Shack, Paperback Booksmith, Strawberries (record store), Brookstones, Hickory Farms, and of course the iconic and controversial Spencer Gifts, where you could get really edgy stuff like beer mugs with nude women stenciled on them, incense candles that smelled like pot, and T-shirts with obscene sayings.
In between I'd stop at the Orange Julius and get a plate of "Chinese food" at the food court for about $4.95, with egg roll included. That was some fancy eating back then and I usually had my Christmas Eve shopping done by noon.