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Post by Reasonablepizza518 on Aug 21, 2020 10:29:00 GMT -5
My mom worked in a salon that was in this mall from like '91 to when the mall closed in 2012, I think. At one point there were two arcades, a comic shop, music store, movie theater, Coconuts/FYE, Walden Books, and food court with decent options for how small it was.
Sometimes when I had days off in grade school my mom would bring me to work and I'd just hang out in the mall for 6 hours. I probably spent more time there growing up than anywhere else besides my house and school. It was doing alright until around '06 and then it just gradually became a wasteland. My moms shop was open until the day it closed though so it was cool be able to go in and walk around those last few weeks knowing I'd never be in there again. Now it's a plaza with a WalMart, Gamestop, and a bunch of other typical places like that.
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 10:32:03 GMT -5
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 I like to call that one the BLADERUNNER MALL. Need to get some photos there before it closes up shop!!! |
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Post by SchlongConnery on Aug 21, 2020 10:40:10 GMT -5
I used to love the local malls when I was a kid. They had arcades, tons of media stores, and rad food. At some point they were all bought out by Westfield and by my teens they all had the same stores as every other mall. I did hang out a lot at one of them in prepatory academy though. All us scenesters and hardcore kids would go after school and hang out by the Starbucks and smoke ciggs and makeout and be a general nusiance to all the people getting coffee.
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Post by Junt Hard on Aug 21, 2020 10:50:08 GMT -5
Limeridge mall. Food court and 2 dollar movies. It was the illest. It's more high end these days. Alot of brawls happened in that parking lot. Great skate ledges.
It was between a bunch of high schools so it was a great place for on sight shit. Ohhh being a kid.
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 11:03:52 GMT -5
Limeridge mall. Food court and 2 dollar movies. It was the illest. It's more high end these days. Alot of brawls happened in that parking lot. Great skate ledges. It was between a bunch of prepatory academys so it was a great place for on sight shit. Ohhh being a kid. Remember how in the early 90's, skateboarders and "gangstaz" would fight each other? That was wild, looking back on it now. Not sure if it happened in Canada, though, so if not, watch the movie "Kids" for a reference... |
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Post by darryllives on Aug 21, 2020 12:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by orbit on Aug 21, 2020 13:36:13 GMT -5
Mission Valley Mall - AMC Movie Theater was the center anchor, there was a Wizards of the Coast, KB Toys, Tilt (arcade), GameStop, Hot Topic, Ruby Diner, used to be an anime store and there was some cool skating spots as well.
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Post by Junt Hard on Aug 21, 2020 13:56:58 GMT -5
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? I was born on 85 and I remember when you could smoke in the food court. |
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Post by Junt Hard on Aug 21, 2020 13:57:53 GMT -5
Limeridge mall. Food court and 2 dollar movies. It was the illest. It's more high end these days. Alot of brawls happened in that parking lot. Great skate ledges. It was between a bunch of prepatory academys so it was a great place for on sight shit. Ohhh being a kid. Remember how in the early 90's, skateboarders and "gangstaz" would fight each other? That was wild, looking back on it now. Not sure if it happened in Canada, though, so if not, watch the movie "Kids" for a reference... We had skids vs preps lol. Basically all the 'poor' kids vs all the rich kids. |
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 14:08:26 GMT -5
When were you born, the early 70's? I was born on 85 and I remember when you could smoke in the food court. I was referencing the fact that he said he actually got to smoke in them. Btw I saw it happen, too. I'm a lil' older than you. |
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 14:09:55 GMT -5
Remember how in the early 90's, skateboarders and "gangstaz" would fight each other? That was wild, looking back on it now. Not sure if it happened in Canada, though, so if not, watch the movie "Kids" for a reference... We had skids vs preps lol. Basically all the 'poor' kids vs all the rich kids. The class war is eternal. |
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Post by Junt Hard on Aug 21, 2020 14:15:57 GMT -5
I was born on 85 and I remember when you could smoke in the food court. I was referencing the fact that he said he actually got to smoke in them. Btw I saw it happen, too. I'm a lil' older than you. Hahah fr fr. I don't remember smoking in stores and shit but apparently you could when I was a wee lad. Remember those little tinfoil ashtrays? I miss going to the ticket Master and buying physical tickets |
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 14:18:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember tinfoil ashtrays at Burger King and McDonald, as well as people smoking in K-Mart.
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Post by treebeard is a mook on Aug 21, 2020 14:20:42 GMT -5
Remember blue-light specials at k-mart?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 14:24:14 GMT -5
Is my memory serving me wrong or did K Mart used to have small Lil Cesars pizza stands?
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Post by lilmeatsauce on Aug 21, 2020 14:40:13 GMT -5
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Is my memory serving me wrong or did K Mart used to have small Lil Cesars pizza stands? it was real  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 15:21:53 GMT -5
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. Not a smoker but kind of miss seeing this. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 15:22:57 GMT -5
The first Cinnabon was at my hometown mall. Other than that, there's nothing exciting about the mall.
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Post by chaospouch on Aug 21, 2020 15:49:09 GMT -5
Anyone have Hill’s stores around when they were lil?
They had a snack bar with soft pretzels, fresh popcorn, roller dogs, etc.
That smell combo was heaven RIP
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Post by Frederik on Aug 21, 2020 15:56:08 GMT -5
Absolutely nothing special about my local mall, besides a "no hoods" rule that was basically an excuse for security to kick out black kids.
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Post by pisswizard on Aug 21, 2020 22:05:46 GMT -5
If I was a billionaire I would buy a dead mall and fill it with carefully recreated early 90’s shops. You could go there and buy things like a dancing coke can or those horrible pants. It would be like a theme park.  |
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Post by briane on Aug 21, 2020 22:08:08 GMT -5
Probably like every other copy and paste suburban mall in the US, especially in the Midwest
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Post by jonsetsfire on Aug 22, 2020 8:56:05 GMT -5
Anyone have Hill’s stores around when they were lil? They had a snack bar with soft pretzels, fresh popcorn, roller dogs, etc. That smell combo was heaven RIP I remember Hill's! It's where the fuckin' toys are, bro! We also had a similar store called Roses that we would go to. The only real memorable thing from my childhood mall, River Ridge Mall in Lynchburg, VA, is that it was the place I scooped my first Wu-Tang shirt. Picked it up from one of those random little kiosks. I wore the FUCK out of that thing. The mall itself was a tiny single-story jawn. If we wanted to go to a larger mall, we'd have to drive out to Roanoke and hit up Valley View mall. It was your typical multi-level mall. Now my local mall is Woodfield mall in Schaumburg, IL. It used to be the world's largest mall before the Mall of America was built. |
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Post by pisswizard on Aug 22, 2020 9:04:29 GMT -5
I don’t like malls much these days but the people watching in them is spot on. Love watching couples buying horrible crap for their houses or children throwing themselves on the ground and crying. Love it.
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Post by Tstigz on Aug 22, 2020 11:41:06 GMT -5
Fond memories of the early 90’s malls in my area. Smelled like pretzels and cigarettes. Cigarette burns all over the floors. I loved the dark arcade and remember seeing Lion King and In The Army Now in the small single theater there.
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Post by stephanie on Aug 22, 2020 12:05:12 GMT -5
We had like 5 or 6 malls in the area, Mohawk Mall was a few blocks from my house as a kid, that was dope.
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Post by antipasto on Aug 22, 2020 12:46:20 GMT -5
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