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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:47:17 PM EDT
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Malls were pretty busy right up until the early 2000's.
We used to go a lot before ordering online really took off. I prefer the online ordering. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:49:07 PM EDT
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I wasted a lot of quarters at the mall arcades in the 80s...
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:49:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:50:27 PM EDT
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The local mall was THE place to be on Friday night in the 80's.
Dinner at Chick-fil-A, couple laps around the mall chasing girls, arcade, maybe a movie. The older teens cruised around the outside in their cars, my buddy's older brother had a 1988 Iroc-Z, it was the envy of everyone. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:51:09 PM EDT
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The 80's in general were pretty bad ass.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:51:28 PM EDT
[#6]
Used to work at a Department store in the mall is high school.
Good times were had. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:51:44 PM EDT
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I kind of miss it. Simpler times for sure.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:52:20 PM EDT
[#8]
Aladdin's Castle is all I needed.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:55:06 PM EDT
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never hung out in malls in the 80s. it was a thing, but I was into other stuff
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:55:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 80's in general were pretty bad ass. [[Laughs in 1960s!]] |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:57:42 PM EDT
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I worked at two different malls as a youth, and I saw the shift happening almost in real time at the second mall in the early 90s.
More and more mall security events, more and more times violence at the mall made the news. Since I worked at the mall I always entered and left through a side entrance, walked through the "back channels" to the rear of the store I worked at. So most of my "entering the mall" experience mirrored Dawn of the Dead more than anything else, complete with mostly zombified fellow mall workers shuffling through the corridors. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:58:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Aladdin's Castle is all I needed. Next to the cinnamon roll place down from the radio shack... |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 1:59:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:00:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I wasted a lot of quarters at the mall arcades in the 80s... I taught myself to drive stick on a Ferrari 355 Challenge machine 
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:00:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: [[Laughs in 1960s!]] Ok Gramps. Take your Metamucil and grab nap. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:01:10 PM EDT
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We still have a couple in my area. One is quickly being over run by gang bangers though. :(
Loved the malls when I was a kid and a young adult. Great way to kill a weekend with friends: Arcade, food, shops, movies, girls. And no care about it raining, or being freezing or an oven outside. 72 and sunny all day! Good times. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:02:46 PM EDT
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I go to Finland a couple of times a year on business. One of the things that fascinates me is how busy their malls still are.
Amazon really did kill the local store. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:02:47 PM EDT
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Yeah, the mall was where you'd go to score weed, coke, acid, and pick up hot 80's big haired chicks. A good time back then.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:05:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:05:54 PM EDT
[#20]
 Mallrats Official Trailer #1 - Ben Affleck Movie (1995) HD |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:06:29 PM EDT
[#21]
The Orange Julius, the Cinnabons, Chick-Fil-A, the arcade, the movie theater, the jean jackets.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:09:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:10:10 PM EDT
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I actually like malls....
I mean, when I know exactly what I want, I'll sometimes use Amazon, but when buying clothes, shoes and just about anything I looking at things I might buy, I am old school and like to see them 1st hand. Not someones pics of them. Also, I find a lot of shit I did not even know was available by shopping in store. Also, lookin at women in real life is much better than on the internet. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:17:06 PM EDT
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Malls are still really big deals in southeast Asia. Thailand and the PI have amazing malls that are as fun as American malls were in the 80s and 90s
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:17:32 PM EDT
[#25]
my route at Mountaineer Mall circa 1983:
Hit mom up for quarters. Enter through monkey wards. Check out sporting goods section. Question why they sold bullets without brass attached to them. Check out guns. Record Bar. Check out the album covers and look through discount section for cut out albums (remember those?) Coles books. Head straight to magazine section. Page through gun rags. Aladdin's Castle!. Tempest, Ikari Warrior, pole position, dig dug, tron, astroids, centipede, pac man! Blow all the quarters. JC Penneys. Check out the guns. Food court area, Weiner world, pizza by the slice, pretzel place. If we were lucky, we'd go see a movie and hit the Pizza Inn. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:22:30 PM EDT
[#26]
I remember the ashtrays.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:38:24 PM EDT
[#27]
Malls were OK.
Early 80s gunshows, though.... I think I heard angels singing as I entered a couple of them. Right up until about 89 when things really started heading down hill except for the cheap ammo which kept flowing a while longer. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:39:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: my route at Mountaineer Mall circa 1983: Hit mom up for quarters. Enter through monkey wards. Check out sporting goods section. Question why they sold bullets without brass attached to them. Check out guns. Record Bar. Check out the album covers and look through discount section for cut out albums (remember those?) Coles books. Head straight to magazine section. Page through gun rags. Aladdin's Castle!. Tempest, Ikari Warrior, pole position, dig dug, tron, astroids, centipede, pac man! Blow all the quarters. JC Penneys. Check out the guns. Food court area, Weiner world, pizza by the slice, pretzel place. If we were lucky, we'd go see a movie and hit the Pizza Inn. Oh, shit! Did you and I just become best friends? ?? |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:41:45 PM EDT
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Always a trip through Spencers gifts with a stop at the pin up girl posters, on every mall trip. Then Sears tool section.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:48:59 PM EDT
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I worked my mother's jewelry store in a mall for a couple of years prior to turning 18.
The sounds haunt me the most. The sound of an empty mall (1976-78) and kids screaming in the distance listening for the echo. The mall I worked in was destroyed by the same people who destroyed the next mall north. Stoned, drunk, rude, and violent kids out causing problems. "Teens" have been a problem the last 45-years that I know of. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:51:33 PM EDT
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I have only ever seen one fight in a mall. It was a down on the floor hair and tit pulling battle royal between two bitches that last all of 45 seconds before friends of both parties pulled them apart. Oh it was delicious to watch.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:52:23 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I go to Finland a couple of times a year on business. One of the things that fascinates me is how busy their malls still are. Amazon really did kill the local store. You mean amazon and walmart 
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:52:43 PM EDT
[#33]
 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Film Clips Opening Mall Scene |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:53:43 PM EDT
[#34]
A mall near me became mostly leather stores and wig shops before it finally closed.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:55:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Aladdin's Castle is all I needed. Hell Yeah |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:56:04 PM EDT
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The mall near us formally high end anchor store is now a huge shot clinic.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:57:15 PM EDT
[#37]
I liked going there but I always lost my damned car.
Forgot which of the 87 entrances I walked into 4 hours ago. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:58:52 PM EDT
[#38]
Bannister Mall in Kansas City, MO was the place we hung out in the 80's. It went downhill thanks to the usual "bad element" driving shoppers away.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:02:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh, shit! Did you and I just become best friends? ?? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: my route at Mountaineer Mall circa 1983: Hit mom up for quarters. Enter through monkey wards. Check out sporting goods section. Question why they sold bullets without brass attached to them. Check out guns. Record Bar. Check out the album covers and look through discount section for cut out albums (remember those?) Coles books. Head straight to magazine section. Page through gun rags. Aladdin's Castle!. Tempest, Ikari Warrior, pole position, dig dug, tron, astroids, centipede, pac man! Blow all the quarters. JC Penneys. Check out the guns. Food court area, Weiner world, pizza by the slice, pretzel place. If we were lucky, we'd go see a movie and hit the Pizza Inn. Oh, shit! Did you and I just become best friends? ??  I got a pocket full of quarters and I'm headed to the arcade... |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:03:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Malls are still really big deals in southeast Asia. Thailand and the PI have amazing malls that are as fun as American malls were in the 80s and 90s Pretty much any place with Asians still has indoor malls. I was shocked when I moved back to the West Coast that they were still popular. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:06:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I taught myself to drive stick on a Ferrari 355 Challenge machine I learned how to fly F15 with a lot of quarters. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:07:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySome real hotties in that movie..... The big mall here, Cumberland Mall, had all the usual stores, plus a huge Mexican restaurant called Chici’s and a good German restaurant, as well as Mecca for gun lovers...... Oshmann’s........ they had every kind of black rifle you could fantasize about |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:08:05 PM EDT
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I remember being in a mall in NC with people smoking and ashing on ground.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:09:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The local mall was THE place to be on Friday night in the 80's. Dinner at Chick-fil-A, couple laps around the mall chasing girls, arcade, maybe a movie. The older teens cruised around the outside in their cars, my buddy's older brother had a 1988 Iroc-Z, it was the envy of everyone. Ahh to be young again. We would go to Gwinnett Place Mall and do the arcade thing. Eat at the food court. And then ride around until the midnight movies were on. One thing to note. Very few fat people at the mall in the 80s. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:09:46 PM EDT
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Closest mall to me is an outlet mall, it's still hopping.
Plenty of others still going too. Lots of people still prefer to see things in their hands before buying, the real challenge is keeping the prices competitive. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:10:10 PM EDT
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I remember watching one near me slowly die over the years. Like watching a brilliant, lively human slowly waste away. I think the one I'm thinking of is on life support. Not sure why they have not just demoed it and turned the land into houses fronted by commercial zoning. All the others in my AO are dying too.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:10:58 PM EDT
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My nearest mall was an hour away so I didn't get to go often.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:15:40 PM EDT
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I REALLY wanted a Panama hat from Chess King so I could look like David Lee Roth. Never pulled the trigger on that.
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:17:20 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the ashtrays. rip a few butts during break. I also remember having a senior smoking section at school. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 3:18:18 PM EDT
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