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Desert Bus posted:Go to any rust belt town/small city and then go to the BAD mall. The one where you can buy lovely second hand books and maybe there's a slot car racing place? The food court pizza will be amazing in an awful sort of way. It's not just the rust belt, not by a long shot. This is ten minutes from downtown Orlando  We had a similar situation in South Florida as well, they called it a flea market but had a bunch of normal retail storefronts so it was just a lying dead mall. Again minutes from several large city centers. Malls die and are too expensive to redevelop into anything useful so they turn into these until they rot so much that the city has to condemn them and socialize the loss. Hell, the mall a block from me has an entire wing that houses a Planet Fitness, a Spanish radio station, an anchor (Dillards?) that doesn't even open on weekdays, and about thirty empty storefronts. They carved out an entire wall of the mall to build a hotel that never manifested so if it doesn't turn into a vintage mall soon it'll only be due to the water damage from the still-missing wall in a state where it rains more days than not. Ain't capitalism grand?
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Weirdly malls in Los Angeles thrive. I can't explain it. I love going in there though the food court alone is like a time machine just based on the smell
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The vintage mall concept is called a peddler's mall here in Kentucky
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Soul Dentist posted:The vintage mall concept is called a peddler's mall here in Kentucky I thought it was called a piggly wiggly?
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Malls in dense cities or cities with public transit can survive, yeah. We even have malls that are mostly still malls in Orlando, but it's impossible to build transit here (the most recent reason why is currently running a presidential campaign into the ground as some insane grift) and it's similarly impossible to densify here, though that's at least partially because of buildings just falling into the loving ground. I do see these things in other places too, Vegas has a few and I'm pretty sure Asheville NC has several, though that may be by hipster design.
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It's an air conditioned flea market because it's hotter than Satan's rear end in a top hat in a lot of red states
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There was a really good flea market in Montgomery. It was just like a mini mall. You could get living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes.
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Malls are a John Hughes creation for 80's movies.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Malls are a John Waters creation for 80's movies. For some reason parsed it this way and was like 
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TotalLossBrain posted:Malls are a John Hughes creation for 80's movies. John Who's?
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maybealabia posted:It's an air conditioned flea market because it's hotter than Satan's rear end in a top hat in a lot of red states No, we had one of those too. It was in an old horse barn that had been messily converted, but it wasn't a mall pretending to be a flea market because it didn't have any chain retail stores and anyone selling anything new was just doing bulk Alibaba orders. I can understand a flea market having a convenience store, but multiple mall staples like Claire's and GameStop means you're just a dying mall that desperately wishes it wasn't. They closed the real flea market after one of the buildings floated off its foundations in a heavy rainstorm. Turns out the rising water table had eaten every vertical structural member below the ground, and nobody noticed because inspections here are a joke. See also: the Palm Beach condo that fell down after 3 years of every person who worked on the building saying it was going to fall down and even informing the county. E: gently caress this is the funny pictures thread what am I doing with my life.  I'm at the dying mall I'm at the indoor themepark I'm at the combination dying mall and indoor themepark I'm at the dying mall I'm at the car museum I'm at the combination dying mall and car museum And indoor theme park And indoor mini golf And bass pro shops, for some reason? And closed Toby Keith's I Love This Bar And Grill Anyway that's all the same place, the Artegon pictured above. It's five blocks from Universal Studios. The mall is perpetually struggling and reinventing itself to struggle some more, the country bar died in under a year, but the fuckin bass pro shops and movie theater I forgot to mention above are doing gangbusters. Shit Fuckasaurus has a new favorite as of 23:29 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:There was a really good flea market in Montgomery. It was just like a mini mall. You could get living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes. I don’t have anything clever to say but I still want you to know I picked this up.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:There was a really good flea market in Montgomery. It was just like a mini mall. You could get living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes. I am beaming smiling right now
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Anyway that's all the same place, the Artegon pictured above. It's five blocks from Universal Studios. The mall is perpetually struggling and reinventing itself to struggle some more, the country bar died in under a year, but the fuckin bass pro shops and movie theater I forgot to mention above are doing gangbusters. That's because Bass Pro is an Experience, not just a store: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/american-department-store-shopping-experience/675210/
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Bass Pros got some super sweet aquariums.
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Where I’m from we call those “marts” or, less lovingly, “dirt malls”
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Grassy Knowles posted:I am beaming smiling right now You can find them. At the market!
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now theres a tune i haven't heard in a long time *stares off into distance kenobishly, turns into dust*
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:There was a really good flea market in Montgomery. It was just like a mini mall. You could get living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes. Oh hey Sammy Stephens, didn't know you were a goon
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I am absolutely enthralled by these wacky malls and I want to go to all of them.
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I always have this hope that someone will buy one of those defunct malls and opens it up for people to roller skate in. Or paintball. Or both.
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Professor Moriarty posted:I always have this hope that someone will buy one of those defunct malls and opens it up for people to roller skate in. Or paintball. Or both. Near the town I grew up in, someone put a skating rink in an old strip mall, they bought like 3 adjacent stores and knocked the walls down. There were columns everywhere, it did not last long.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:There was a really good flea market in Montgomery. It was just like a mini mall. You could get living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes. Then, on the way back home, my car's water pump died. In Montgomery. /e: must have been '07 or '08 based on when it first got uploaded stringless has a new favorite as of 02:34 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Professor Moriarty posted:I always have this hope that someone will buy one of those defunct malls and opens it up for people to roller skate in. Or paintball. Or both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0NtxTzsD4k
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:
Dr. Peter Venkman posted:It's Art, Egon 
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Professor Moriarty posted:I always have this hope that someone will buy one of those defunct malls and opens it up for people to roller skate in. Or paintball. Or both. Lazer tag needs to make a comeback somehow
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great big cardboard tube posted:Lazer tag needs to make a comeback somehow
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Splicer posted:lazer tag in an abandoned mall and the announcer is a soundboard of MST3K clips Lazer Tag but your gun/vest tracks streaks and uses UT and/or Quake announcements.
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Splicer posted:lazer tag in an abandoned mall and the announcer is a soundboard of MST3K clips ROWSDOWER!
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Dameius posted:Lazer Tag but your gun/vest tracks streaks and uses UT and/or Quake announcements. but instead of the ut/Quake sounds it's these names in order https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Dave_RyderMVP gets named Nice Guy Patron posted:ROWSDOWER!
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:No, we had one of those too. It was in an old horse barn that had been messily converted, but it wasn't a mall pretending to be a flea market because it didn't have any chain retail stores and anyone selling anything new was just doing bulk Alibaba orders. I can understand a flea market having a convenience store, but multiple mall staples like Claire's and GameStop means you're just a dying mall that desperately wishes it wasn't. This is now owned by a crazy Trump associate. Dezer Development of Miami.
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No. 6 posted:This is now owned by a crazy Trump associate. Dezer Development of Miami. Didn't know they were Trumpy but it doesn't matter, there's no reason to ever go and someone is building a better multistory theater a block away. Artegon/Dezerland (sorry for posting that name, it's awful and never again) will never fully die though, the weird cul-de-sac off International Drive that it sits on is also home to a serially mismanaged outlet mall that has changed hands several times but similarly has had no interest from any non-lovely-mall entities any of the times it's been up for sale. At this point I'm convinced that everything on that side of Fun Spot is just a tax write-off.
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That whole area is devoid of humanity and is monument to capitalism and lowest common denominator amusement.
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No. 6 posted:That whole area is devoid of humanity and is monument to capitalism and lowest common denominator amusement. Yeah, SomethingAwful rules!
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Nice Guy Patron posted:ROWSDOWER! McCloud!
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root beer posted:McCloud! Watch out for snakes!
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marshmallow creep posted:Wtf Yeah it's a "mall" colloquially. They're basically consignment shops in a renovatedfaftory or some other dilapidated building. You pay $300 a month for a 5' by 5' square that you stock yourself and the company handles the retail component for an additional 15%. They're filled with weird collectibles, antique furniture and folk art. We went to one in Lewes Delaware where all in row there were China hutches filled with angel figurines, a stall selling Playboys from the 70s and then one selling nautical maps of Asia from the 19th century.
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Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.
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Lobok posted:Yeah, SomethingAwful rules! SA is definitely not capitalist because there was probably a time when Lowtax could have sold this dead gay site for good money but didn't. 
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