my childhood/adolescent mall just got tore down recently. heartbreaking. i fear i was the last year/generation of kids spending time in malls. even it was seen as uncool by the time i was in 8th grade (we didn’t care). I’m so grateful for those times.
i worked in there in its last years when i had a second job at vstock, and it broke my damn heart seeing the emptiness . I was able to go to the arcade all the way up till it got bulldozed. they had a great membership, i’ll miss that arcade. old school. we went viral bc there was a santa clause that nobody went to.
It delights me to hear that. I grew up in their heyday. They were bound to go after Amazon was born, but we definitely lost a lot when they did.
I’ll forever mourn them. kids are already struggling with lack of 3rd spaces, which makes them more anti social and on their phones.
the death of malls lowkey was the start of the end for the American Dream fantasy
Never thought of it that way, but it rings true.
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This feels like a poignant observation.
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