New life for old malls
There are too many malls in America, and too many vacancies in them. So city planners are looking for other ways to use all that square-footage. The New York Times has a neat story about some of the...
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Instagram of men sitting in the man chair
Miserable Men: "Men that went shopping. It's a global epidemic. Send photos to miserablemenpics@gmail.com"
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Video: Mall cop pulls gun on driver who knocked over traffic cone
CBS News's Betty Yu reports that San Jose's Westfield Valley Fair mall is being sued after one of its guards, Francis Lancaster-Abraham Fielding, pulled a gun on a driver who knocked over a traffic...
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Toto's "Africa" playing in an abandoned mall
Cecil Robert posted this remarkably effective video. It should be inscribed on titanium disks, encoded in the simplest possible video format to decipher, so that future generations may understand the...
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Stranger Things teaser: Hawkins gets a new mall!
I hope Dustin gets a job at Spencer Gifts.
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Canadian mall caught collecting facial recognition data on the sly
When I’m in Calgary, there’s a coffee shop that I like to work at, located in the Chinook Centre Mall. It’s part of a local chain that knows how to make a great iced latte. I’m not in often, but they...
View ArticleMallwave: nostalgic synth music for imaginary and abandoned shopping centers
Mallwave is a microgenre of bedroom electronic music and smooth jazz meant to evoke nostalgia for the vibrant mall scenes of the 1980s and 1990s that many of the music's composers are too young to...
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Kickstarting "The Decline of Mall Civilization," a sequel to the...
Michael Galinsky's 2011 photo-book "Malls Across America" went out of print quickly and now sells for upwards of $1000/copy; Galinsky is now kickstarting a sequel, The Decline of Mall Civilization,...
View ArticleFast times at Roosevelt Field Mall, a documentary (1983)
In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City. (via r/ObscureMedia)
View ArticleThe Mall, footage from a dying mall in 1994
This is The Mall, opened in Huntsville, Alabama in 1966 and demolished in 1998. The footage above--collected by Highway Explorer in 1994 as this former retail haven was taking its dying breaths--could...
View ArticleWatch this person passionately rave about the joy of mall walking as exercise...
This clip is apparently from "Malltime," a 1987 episode of the British TV documentary program Equinox. Some insist that the woman is an actor, and that may very well be true especially given the mall...
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Tracking the Rise and Fall of the American middle class with shopping malls
One of the best parts of Wonder Woman 1984 was the present-day opening sequence, of our lasso'd heroine battling some petty crooks at a shopping mall, interspersed with clips of our villain-to-be,...
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High school moved into empty Macy's department store
High school students in Burlington, Vermont are now going to class in a deserted former Macy's department store. The school's prior campus was closed after the discovery of cancer-causing PCBs in the...
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Who wants to take a trip to Jasper Mall?
I recently watched Jasper Mall, a 2020 documentary film (directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcombabout) about a dying mall in Jasper, Alabama. Jasper Mall originally opened in 1981, but...
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The "spirit" in Spirit Halloween doesn't refer to ghosts, and other secrets...
According the National Retail Federation, US shoppers will spend $10 billion on Halloween crap this year. A big chunk of that will go into the coffers of Spirit Halloween, operators of more than 1400...
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Revisit the weird retail vibe of 1990s malls in this huge photo gallery
90's Malls and Stores "I compiled a large amount of 90's malls and stores from retail books of that era for your viewing pleasure," writes ForeverMozart at r/ObscureMedia. Click through this...
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Fully intact Burger King discovered behind wall at Delaware shopping mall
A fellow named Jonathon Pruitt reportedly snapped the photo below of a preserved Burger King "found behind a wall" at Wilmington, Delaware's Concord Mall. I can't locate any additional information...
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How the Warner Bros store went belly up
Remember when the mall was an experience? In the days before smartphones and high-speed internet, wandering around a mall, arms festooned with shopping bags, was the equivalent of mindlessly scrolling...
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Active shooter situation at Jersey City mall… wasn't that
On Saturday, reports of an active shooter caused customers of Jersey City's Newport Centre Mall to flee. Police received nine calls about bullets fired and social media lit up with warnings to stay...
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Little kid saved from potential escalator tragedy
A little girl standing on the floor at the Shen Zhe Hui shopping mall in Shanghai grabbed an escalator's moving handrail. The rail lifted her into the air, and she started screaming as she was carried...
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Watch a crowded escalator fail spectacularly
This looks a lot like a cartoon, and is certainly a universally shared fear! An escalator's fail-safes were not safe, turning into a loose, freely spinning nightmare. The escalator was designed so the...
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