Completely Surreal Photos Of America's Abandoned Malls

Buzzfeed ^ | April 2, 2014 | Matt Stopera

[Bonemaker]

You are talking about a Bismatck or a Napolean. How often do men like that come along?

[ScottinVA]

Urban warfare training facilities? Shoot houses?

FEMA camps.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Turn them into housing?

[Boomer One]

I see good potential for nursing homes, retirement apartments, high end-self contained communities, or even affordable housing. Possibilities exist but will take dollars and imagination for conversion.

[Bonemaker]

“Turn them into housing?”

Surrounded by electrified razor wire.

[Bonemaker]

“Soon to be the fanciest closed Dick’s. “

DBA Prick’s.

[ScottinVA]

I’ve seem similar recommendations out there... that’s a great option. The enclosed environment could give seniors a full-blown community, replete with apartments and stores located within an expansive, climate-controlled facility.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

All look like sets for a Zombie Apocalypse flick.

[dfwgator]

[ChildOfThe60s]

Eerily dystopian shot of America’s likely future if we are unable to turn the tide in the culture war.

[No_More_Harkin]

For me, malls died when the arcades left.
:( no more Pac-man, Asteroids, Centipede...

[vetvetdoug]

Going to a mall in Memphis is asking for trouble. The great “Mall of Memphis” closed because from the mall to the parking the locals preyed upon the shoppers like hyenas to carrion. It got so bad the mall had to put up guard towers and still the locals robbed the customers. Tupelo’s Barnes Crossing is getting more like Memphis everyday due to the numbers of minorities in the parking lots looking for whiteys to rob.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I used to own an arcade right after I left the service. Made decent money for the time.

[Maine Mariner]

I wonder what the fate will be for the Mall of America
in Bloomington, MN.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Our education system in this country, to this day, is based on the Bismarck Plan.

[sarge83]

In Knoxville they have had West Town Mall for decades and it continues on. They opened a mall called East Town in the 80’s and it is declined greatly. To many feral youth ruining it, along with the crime. I won’t shop in malls unless armed and I certainly do not want my wife and daughter in these crime infested sewers.

When the youth are allowed to roam without parents present you can count on the properties demise in the near future.

[Garvin]

In areas that are rundown and viable, they should revamp them into Schools.

[Lee25]

I’m Asian and became citizen in 1996. I wonder how many of those malls were abandoned because of too many blacks; how many of them due to economic shift ie plants moved overseas ?

[max americana]

Pretty much. Then again, Uber and Lyft solves that problem.

[areukiddingme1]

“Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.” - Chris Rock