What was your local mall like when you were a kid?

[JDS]

Jul 17, 2018 17:54:24 GMT -5 cthc89 said:

Jul 17, 2018 12:57:20 GMT -5 ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ said:

Did any of you guys have an Aladdin’s Castle in your mall? That arcade was so rad.

No, but I have heard of that chain of arcades before. I guess there were lots of them?

The one at the summit mall that I wrote about earlier was just OK, the Aladin's Castle at the boulevard mall, that I also mentioned was LEGIT. I remember getting SO PISSED at Dragon's Lair there and the had "Discs of Tron"

[JDS]

Jul 17, 2018 13:17:32 GMT -5 𝖒𝖊𝖔𝖜𝖋𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 said:

Jul 17, 2018 9:43:41 GMT -5 @Tay Lorm said:

We also had a Kay-B Toy Store, which was a shitty Toys R Us knockoff on a much smaller scale.

KB Toys was around for 26 more years than TRU you fuck

In the 80's KB had a REALLY great selection of toys that no other store had. The carried D and D stuff, which usually you had to a comic shop or book store to get. I bought (well, my grandparents did) my First D&D Basic set there in 83.

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what about the eastern hills?

[𝖒𝖊𝖔𝖜𝖋𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓]

Jul 18, 2018 11:55:13 GMT -5 JDS said:

Jul 17, 2018 13:17:32 GMT -5 𝖒𝖊𝖔𝖜𝖋𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 said:

KB Toys was around for 26 more years than TRU you fuck

In the 80's KB had a REALLY great selection of toys that no other store had. The carried D and D stuff, which usually you had to a comic shop or book store to get. I bought (well, my grandparents did) my First D&D Basic set there in 83.

Yeah KB ruled and always had harder to find, older, and more niche stuff. The end of KB, Suncoast, and now Toys R Us have made the toy industry suck on the mass market level.

[JDS]

Jul 18, 2018 11:55:32 GMT -5 Hotdogscominurway said:

what about the eastern hills?

I mention it briefly in my post.

[JDS]

Also, had the worst record store, food court and stores out of the three.

[☭ Bob Loblaw ☭]

Jul 18, 2018 11:52:43 GMT -5 JDS said:

Jul 17, 2018 17:54:24 GMT -5 cthc89 said:

No, but I have heard of that chain of arcades before. I guess there were lots of them?

The one at the summit mall that I wrote about earlier was just OK, the Aladin's Castle at the boulevard mall, that I also mentioned was LEGIT. I remember getting SO PISSED at Dragon's Lair there and the had "Discs of Tron"

My mom forbade me from going after a local high school drug ring was busted inside

[JDS]

Jul 18, 2018 12:11:54 GMT -5 ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ said:

Jul 18, 2018 11:52:43 GMT -5 JDS said:

The one at the summit mall that I wrote about earlier was just OK, the Aladin's Castle at the boulevard mall, that I also mentioned was LEGIT. I remember getting SO PISSED at Dragon's Lair there and the had "Discs of Tron"

My mom forbade me from going after a local high school drug ring was busted inside

I was like 9-10 years old and my grandparents would hand me $5 and go shopping. $5 in tokens wen't a long fucking way back then. 

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Jul 18, 2018 12:07:13 GMT -5 JDS said:

Jul 18, 2018 11:55:32 GMT -5 Hotdogscominurway said:

what about the eastern hills?

I mention it briefly in my post.

you right, i missed that. definitely the worst one 

[JDS]

Jul 18, 2018 12:21:38 GMT -5 Hotdogscominurway said:

Jul 18, 2018 12:07:13 GMT -5 JDS said:

I mention it briefly in my post.

you right, i missed that. definitely the worst one 

Thruway mall was worse, only wen't there like twice. The McKinley mall was like visiting another fucking planet. I remember getting "Spreading the Disease" by Anthrax there

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oh gross, i totally forgot about that one. was main place ever not dog shit?

[JDS]

Jul 18, 2018 12:34:08 GMT -5 Hotdogscominurway said:

oh gross, i totally forgot about that one. was main place ever not dog shit?

I honestly have no idea, I didn't go there until i worked there at the Delaware Camera in the late 90's. Can confirm the tie dye Mall in Niagara Falls was a huge piece of shit, ALWAYS. The botanical "winter garden" was cool as shit though, it looked like a set piece from a 70's sci-fi film where Logan's Run took place.

[☭ Bob Loblaw ☭]

Dude, totally Logan’s Run

[MMST3K]

Jul 18, 2018 13:38:13 GMT -5 ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ said:

muchacho, totally Logan’s Run

[JDS]

Jul 18, 2018 13:38:13 GMT -5 ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ said:

muchacho, totally Logan’s Run

RENEW! RENEW!!!!

[scumontherun]

My local mall is the same now as when i was a youngin..

Disappointing

[𝖒𝖊𝖔𝖜𝖋𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓]

Is your dead mall on here?

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I just wen't to a wrestling show at this one www.labelscar.com/illinois/north-park-mall

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There were several malls in my are as a kid, but the closest one had a few stores I remember clear as day:

B. Dalton bookstore (extinct national chain): my parents would take me there to get the latest goosebumps book

Auntie Anne’s pretzels

Comic Castle: where id buy Star Wars trading cards

[Osama Vinladen Jiménez López🎅🎄]

Part of me misses malls. I guess I want them to exist but I only wanna go like once every 15 years

[gaygay]

Last time I wen't to a mall was 13 years ago, when I waited in line at midnight for Halo 3.

[pisswizard]

Fucking loved malls. I grew up about a 45 minute train trip to one called Fountain Gate which was pretty small but to me was huge. There was one of those novelty shops full of the glowing ball things and in the window was one of those magic floating coke can things where the liquid was pouring out perpetually. There was a trading card shop and a place that sold wargames. Used to love the computer shop. This was when the games come in huge phone book sized boxes with cool art on them. The newsagents was huge and nothing like the little one at home. All these different magazines and comics. There was a lot of pastel pink tile and 90’s design everywhere. Lots of turns and fountains. I miss when malls had all these small businesses in them full of unusual stuff and plenty of entertainment. Now its all just huge chains that every one has and a few 2 dollar Chinese import shops. I also am a huge fan of malls younger sibling, the arcade. Not video game arcades but the little walk through a lot of main streets have here that are full of small shops. I guess they evolved from the Victorian era ones? Whenever I’m in a town I dont go to much I always look for arcades because they are where all the weird book shops, second hand dealers, hippy shops with crystals and tarot shit, weird cake makers and so on are. I used to take a lot of photos of those places too. There’s a mall on the other side of the city from me thats from the 1950’s. Its not really anything like you would call a mall today but I did go there and it was half dead and kind messy but p interesting.

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Jul 17, 2018 13:45:58 GMT -5 captainsunshine said:

the mall of my youth was the sun valley mall in concord ca


it was fucking LIT in the 90's for sure.
a big claim to fame was a plane crashed there in the late 80's haha


but 90's sunvalley mall was so tight. they had a johnny rockets with dope milkshakes n shit listening to the supremes while you ate a burger or whatever.

of course we had the now extinct WB store there

which had a rocket ship in the back you could crawl into to watch old looney tunes


and we most def had those old school goth looking wet seals there

Dude YES! I grew up going to this mall and the Antioch mall. Antioch one was smaller but it was dank back in the day. But the Concord mall was so fuckin dope. Used to eat cinabons downstairs and go to Sam goody all the time. I also remember hot topic being really dark and shit. Like I thought it was low-key scary cause you'd walk by and just see Marilyn Manson/goth shit. I also used to hang out in Marvin's rocket. Man, those were the days.

[treebeard is a mook]

I checked and mine still exists, thankfully. The Stroud Mall in Stroudsburg, PA.

All I really wen't to from childhood to my juvenile years were the Time-Out arcade, Kay-bee Toys, Electronics Boutique, Sbarro's, and the movie theater. There was an overpriced music shop that changed names a few times, but instead, I wen't to the indie record stores in the area. The best of which was an hour and ten mins away, but I still wen't to more often than the one forty-five mins away. Anyhow, there wasn't even a Hot Topic there are the time. Closest thing was this pretty boring hippie store that sold blacklight posters of bands like Nirvana, Pink Floyd, and Bush, in addition to tie-dye shirts and incense burners. Not many band shirts that I can recall.

[chaospouch]

It’s wild to think I spent a lot of time smoking cigs inside of shopping malls growing up

RIP public smoking

[treebeard is a mook]

Aug 21, 2020 8:17:10 GMT -5 chaospouch said:

It’s wild to think I spent a lot of time smoking cigs inside of shopping malls growing up

RIP public smoking

When were you born, the early 70's?

[chaospouch]

Aug 21, 2020 8:24:00 GMT -5 treebeard is a mook said:

Aug 21, 2020 8:17:10 GMT -5 chaospouch said:

It’s wild to think I spent a lot of time smoking cigs inside of shopping malls growing up

RIP public smoking

When were you born, the early 70's?

1973

[treebeard is a mook]

Aug 21, 2020 8:30:46 GMT -5 chaospouch said:

Aug 21, 2020 8:24:00 GMT -5 treebeard is a mook said:

When were you born, the early 70's?

1973

Had a feeling that was the case.


I remember seeing it in the 80's, but was a lil' young for that.

[escapedfromthevalley]

Aug 21, 2020 8:17:10 GMT -5 chaospouch said:

It’s wild to think I spent a lot of time smoking cigs inside of shopping malls growing up

RIP public smoking

YES!

I actually quit around the time they removed smoking sections from restaurants. What's the point if I can't smoke at the table before and after a meal?

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There’s a mall here that only has two stores now. Bass Pro Shop and a huge vintage video game store. It’s fucking sick you can still walk around the entire mall too

[gaygay]

I can still remember as a little kid going the places like Sizzler or Denny's and being able to smell smoke from the smoking section. It's unbelievable that was even a thing.