The 80's will be remembered as the golden age of malls, jah, gag me with a spoon.
Quite bittersweet.
The 80's will be remembered as the golden age of malls, jah, gag me with a spoon.
Quite bittersweet.
My local mall has been taken over by “teens”
No one goes there partly because of the constant fights and chaos
I was in an upscale Texas mall a few months ago, lots and lots of people, the vast majority, aside from maybe a pretzel or burger, had bought nothing.
The only retail store cranking out paying customers was the Apple Store.
There are still bundles of stores. They’re just configured differently. Here in MA, outside “malls” are sprouting up. They just aren’t called “malls.”
The newly discovered phenomenon of “mall deserts” is surely racist.
Thats because most people in the country were white and civil, then. Malls were safe and not being robbed by “yout” flash mobs and organized crime rackets.
Look back at 80s photos of crowds in malls. Mostly white. Civil crowds. There to shop. Have fun at arcades. My mall I first grew up in back then had a massive skating rink in its major intersection.
No worries, fed and state monies will be stolen from taxpayers and the rest piled on the debt as hundreds of these malls will be converted to a place to house a few million illegals. Then with gummit cash they can get food items, clothing, charge their obama phones and get their debit card recharged every month while they breed like rabbits to get anchor babies. We’ll pay for that too.
The entire premise of enclosed shopping malls was based on a set of shared cultural norms, that have largely ceased to exist.
I’ll be surprised if it takes 10 years.
Never been a fan of malls even as a child. Just like to go into a store, get what I need and get out. If I need to walk somewhere there is always a park or my own neighborhood.
House the illegals and homeless in the abandoned malls. Get them off the sidewalks.
Yes, indeed, “Peak Mall” was approximately 1983. The movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” captures that era when the mall was the place to be, and most malls had similar food courts and collection of stores (Hickory Farms, Foot Locker, Gap, MusicLand etc.).
That era is gone. Amazon.com killed a lot of the specialty retailers while the department stores that anchored the malls were taken out by WalMart and Target and Costco.
I miss the ‘80s, though. It was an optimistic, stable time. Reagan was in the White House. The World War II-vet generation, by then in their mid-late 50s/early 60s was still pretty much running the country. Later when the baby boomers like Bill Clinton came in in the ‘90s, that the country really started to go to hell.
the way to save the mall is to have memberships like Costco. most people don’t shop at them anymore because the experience is not a good one. to many gang members with no money walk around in the malls. a membership would keep out a lot of the troublemakers.
It’s not America but the Toronto area has about half a dozen big malls. They just lost recently Nordstrom as an anchor store in a few of them but other than the general internet onslaught they still seem to be doing ok. The few I’ve been in recently seem to almost full of stores and the security problem the US has hasn’t hit here as far as I can tell. Probably the most successful is called Yorkdale which has a long history going back to when it opened in the mid 1960s. It is now quite high end having tiffany and cartier etc. Last time I was there it was fairly crowded and bustling.
We have mini malls now with maybe 10 stores. I love our little local malls. In the early 70s, I’d drive miles to the big mall for Christmas Shopping. Things have changed and I think...for the better.
Without Amazon and th÷ boom in home delivery, and everyone online, would malls really be dying?
Maybe what people are complaining about are results, not causes.
There are at least four or five bigs ones just in the Phoenix area. The Scottsdale one is doing okay (they were infamously hit during the BLM riots).
There are other upscale ones west of Phoenix and in Mesa/Chandler area. One one near me in Tempe is just getting by.
There’s one that does well in northern Tempe.
I think Phoenix is helped by being a spead out urban area that is relatively car friendly.
Every mall I’ve been to in the last 15 years is covered in third world illegals.
At one time there were seven decent malls in a twenty mile radius of Toledo, Ohio, now there is only one. When the local favorite and anchor, Lion Store, closed,three of the malls folded soon after. It did not help that gangs started showing up to cause mayhem.
I remember when Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, Virginia, opened in 1980. They hired the Ellington Orchestra to play a concert (led by Duke’s son Mercer Ellington).
I arrived by chance just in time to hear a great free concert!