I remember going to the Northwest Mall in St. Louis County as soon as I got my license in 1967. It was the teen hang-out of the day.
I’m so old that the Orange Julius put RAW egg in your drink!
All of us teens were well behaved and polite...unlike today’s “teens” that contributed so much to the death of so many malls.
I’m old, too. I took my kids to the big mall to shop for Christmas..in the 79s. Little by litle, towns crated Mini Malls and that’s till what we have in our Town here in Upstate.
“”””All of us teens were well behaved and polite.””””
Not all of us, as a high schooler I used to hustle free meals at the mall.
My buddy and I would pick out two good-looking girls sitting at a mall cafe table and my buddy would hungrily and cutely covertly watch them start eating, once they noticed him I would go over and firmly dress him down and then apologize to the girls for my mute brother and explain how he hadn’t eaten for 2 days and then I would tell them how we only discovered we were brothers recently, both of us being orphans and all, etc.
We not only got the food but usually got the nighttime with them as well if we wanted to.
Malls were magical places for kids in the late 60’s. But the decay and destruction in America was limited at that time. Pretty much everything was much better in those days.