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the strip mall Chinese buffet with teriyaki chicken on a stick and crab legs holds a very special place in my heart
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Mar 30, 2022 15:12
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mistermojo posted:the strip mall Chinese buffet with teriyaki chicken on a stick and crab legs holds a very special place in my heart amen brother
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Mar 30, 2022 15:13
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Wealthy people aren't going to strip malls, they're going to these horrible places that have sprung up in recentish years that are like malls but only outside. So you've got this maze of paths and stores that honestly could just have a roof on it with skylights and be climate controlled and comfy but nah it's gotta be open for some reason
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Mar 30, 2022 15:37
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me driving to the strip mall
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Mar 30, 2022 15:49
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:whoa, i can walk from one store to another store!!! whoa, hey, haha!! people will literally get in their cars to go across the parking lot rather than walking
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Mar 30, 2022 15:50
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Horace posted:me driving to the strip mall
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Mar 30, 2022 15:51
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ArmZ posted:people will literally get in their cars to go across the parking lot rather than walking Yeah i'm not a peasant, why would I walk to places?
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Mar 30, 2022 15:52
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wealthy people aren't going to strip malls, they're going to these horrible places that have sprung up in recentish years that are like malls but only outside. So you've got this maze of paths and stores that honestly could just have a roof on it with skylights and be climate controlled and comfy but nah it's gotta be open for some reason Outlet malls? The two I go to are mostly working and middle class people looking for a deal at Banana Republic or the Disney store. Wealthy people shop online or at some boutique stores in the city center.
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Mar 30, 2022 15:56
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Nah there's these open shopping centers that are full of yuppie types. Sometimes they might have apartments attached too? It's real weird
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Mar 30, 2022 16:15
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Milo and POTUS posted:Nah there's these open shopping centers that are full of yuppie types. Sometimes they might have apartments attached too? It's real weird That sounds like a strip mall with apartments nearby.
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Mar 30, 2022 16:17
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no, I've seen these too, since i was a kid. they're open air malls: they have a central pedestrian avenue, with shops on both sides, and then parking in a ring outside of that. they're just not enclosed with a full roof. i assume you only can make them in certain climates.
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Mar 30, 2022 16:21
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they mean this loving thing: https://goo.gl/maps/4LJPHDtDx74LLkYw8 it looks a lot less chaotic and confusing on a map than when you are actually in its bowels
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Mar 30, 2022 16:31
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ArmZ posted:people will literally get in their cars to go across the parking lot rather than walking Oh and then what, walk all the way back across the parking lot to get to my car? If man were meant to walk that much, why did God give us these cars to look after?
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Mar 30, 2022 16:34
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lol at the gigantic ring of parking
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Mar 30, 2022 16:34
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something like 70% of the screen in that google maps link is devoted to parking/driving. 20% is empty space that has some scrubgrass on it and maybe 2-3 trees. 10% is actual retail/housing/healthcare square footage
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Mar 30, 2022 16:37
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Clark Nova posted:they mean this loving thing: https://goo.gl/maps/4LJPHDtDx74LLkYw8 imagine building one of these rather than pedestrianizing one street of your downtown
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Mar 30, 2022 16:38
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Clark Nova posted:they mean this loving thing: https://goo.gl/maps/4LJPHDtDx74LLkYw8 
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Mar 30, 2022 16:41
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love it or leave it, baby. 
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Mar 30, 2022 16:57
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Doc Hawkins posted:no, I've seen these too, since i was a kid. they're open air malls: they have a central pedestrian avenue, with shops on both sides, and then parking in a ring outside of that. they're just not enclosed with a full roof. i assume you only can make them in certain climates. you'd be surprised -- i live in montreal and the suburb across the river has one of these "lifestyle centres" that has been massively building up over the last ten+ years, no idea why anyone would want to go there during the third of the year where it's below freezing 
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Mar 30, 2022 17:00
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Doc Hawkins posted:no, I've seen these too, since i was a kid. they're open air malls: they have a central pedestrian avenue, with shops on both sides, and then parking in a ring outside of that. they're just not enclosed with a full roof. i assume you only can make them in certain climates. If I had to guess: having 'shared' indoor areas between stores implies that it is okay to be inside 'The Mall' without participating in a transaction. if you keep the proximity but get rid of those shared indoor spaces, you keep the customers you'd share between stores anyway while cutting down on the various loiterers who are not interested in spending money but just looking for "something to do".
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Mar 30, 2022 17:07
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There's a stip-style outlet mall near here that has a golf cart shuttle to save people the indignity of walking between stores. Otherwise they really would drive. There's no walkway across the parking lot.Pepe Silvia Browne posted:If I had to guess: having 'shared' indoor areas between stores implies that it is okay to be inside 'The Mall' without participating in a transaction. if you keep the proximity but get rid of those shared indoor spaces, you keep the customers you'd share between stores anyway while cutting down on the various loiterers who are not interested in spending money but just looking for "something to do". And many of these designs allow more stores to have outward-facing fronts that can be accessed directly from the parking lot.
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Mar 30, 2022 17:16
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The outward-facing fronts also make it easier to advertise to People Who Are In Cars, who are the only people that exist. If you have a shop inside of an enclosed mall, people won't know it's there unless they get out of their car and walk around inside the mall, which is the ultimate indignity. also lol that that place is called the "paddock shops" - come spend like the livestock you are!
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Mar 30, 2022 17:40
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Clark Nova posted:they mean this loving thing: https://goo.gl/maps/4LJPHDtDx74LLkYw8 haha jesus
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Mar 30, 2022 17:46
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Clark Nova posted:they mean this loving thing: https://goo.gl/maps/4LJPHDtDx74LLkYw8 wow I Can't Believe nobody is using this sidewalk   if you put your ear to this "sidewalk," you can hear it whispering "killl me..." Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:53 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Mar 30, 2022 17:51
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Love the functionally useless and annoying zigzag shape.
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Mar 30, 2022 18:11
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Sphyre posted:mods rename teriyaki hairpiece to Crispin Lover
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Mar 30, 2022 18:15
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i have visited this magnificent place: it has a four lane road running through it. so if you don't like the hammers in B&M and want to check out the hammers in B&Q you have to use no fewer than five push button pedestrian crossings. no-one would dart across the road though, would they???
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Mar 30, 2022 18:18
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jesus christ that sidewalk
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Mar 30, 2022 18:51
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Petanque posted:you'd be surprised -- i live in montreal and the suburb across the river has one of these "lifestyle centres" I really think lifestyle center is the phrase I was thinking of. It's a mall, and it's surrounded by a giant parking lot, but there's no roof over the spaces between the stores. These thrive while malls die because we live in the bad future.
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Mar 30, 2022 18:54
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I really think lifestyle center is the phrase I was thinking of. It's a mall, and it's surrounded by a giant parking lot, but there's no roof over the spaces between the stores. These thrive while malls die because we live in the bad future. I went to one of those in San Antonio. It was really nice, the walkways had big planters in them. It was much more pleasant than a traditional mall.
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Mar 30, 2022 19:34
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I really think lifestyle center is the phrase I was thinking of. It's a mall, and it's surrounded by a giant parking lot, but there's no roof over the spaces between the stores. These thrive while malls die because we live in the bad future. malls themselves were a a lovely dystopian project to move shopping out of downtown and into a car-oriented, completely privatized space on cheap land at the periphery, and now they've been supplanted by something worse. lol. lmao.
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Mar 30, 2022 20:00
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I wonder if malls largely went out of style simply because they were all old. People want to go somewhere new. But it doesn't make much sense to build another mall, so you build something else that's essentially the same thing but without some of the defining features (common areas). We had a good decade of that sort of development. Everything now seems to understand that "urban" is good, but most of them only pay lip service to the idea. You drive to an area that looks like a downtown, but it's all private. And technically people can "live, work, play" there, except the rent is too high and the jobs are almost exclusively low-paying service positions. Some of these developments are good though when they actually understand how an urban environment works. e: outlet malls could never produce this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWTHCHHzZY Malls may have been bad, but they weren't completely off track
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Mar 30, 2022 20:21
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https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-10-16/structural-violence-and-the-automobile/
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Mar 30, 2022 20:41
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My town is overhauling a street to add bike lanes and remove parking on one side and the qq tears are already epic
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Mar 30, 2022 20:48
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Polo-Rican posted:wow I Can't Believe nobody is using this sidewalk created to inflict punishment on pedestrians, slaloming back and forth under the sun with no tree cover, the height of each arc taking you closer to someone on their phone behind the wheel of a truck that weighs 7000 lbs carrying one person and one small purchase from a big box store, spewing exhaust directly into your face strip malls, we sure do love them don't we folks
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Mar 30, 2022 20:59
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Petanque posted:no idea why anyone would want to go there during the third of the year where it's below freezing Investing for the future Fitzy Fitz posted:Malls may have been bad, but they weren't completely off track Malls had more than their fair share of problems but at least I have some nostalgia of wandering around them with my friends. Many places absolutely despise younger people anymore and are somehow even more hostile to them Milo and POTUS has issued a correction as of 21:05 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Mar 30, 2022 21:00
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mall chat, hallmark '87 makes vaporwave that makes you feel like you are in a late 80s mall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxu06HKnStY
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Mar 30, 2022 21:19
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I grew up perfectly equidistant from the Exton Square Mall, the Philadelphia Outlets, and King of Prussia Mall; all three of them among the biggest shopping centers in the country (or were at some point) and they're all tripping over their own dicks hard right now some cultural bullet points about Exton off the top of my head: 1. the scene of a grisly rape/murder in the 80's 2. selected as the shooting location for Kevin Smith's Mallrats 2 in 2015!!! with superstar Ben Affleck returning fell through 3. now looks like this  
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There's a big mall near me. It has car parking, a bus station, a taxi-rank, bike parking, train-connections, and they've now put in a metro station. It was the first place me and my friend ever went on our own that was futher than walking distance. We bought a hundred chicken nuggets at the mcdonalds but forgot to buy drinks, and then bought and a physical guide for I think pokemon gold/silver, which we shared until it fell to pieces. Good times.
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