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Maybe Cool off with a conveniently placed outdoor drink kiosk
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Hardawn posted:Maybe Cool off with a conveniently placed outdoor drink kiosk i'm not drinking your stupid kid's lemonade. if they didn't pee in it then they definitely failed to wash their hands properly
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Apr 19, 2023 19:14
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op is a ghost in the mall
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Apr 19, 2023 19:15
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I went to a mall in Mexico a few months ago and it felt like I got teleported back in time. It was super full of people just shopping and hanging out. All the Mexican stores have even been replaced with American brands.
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Apr 19, 2023 20:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JqEo4XJ8FY
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Apr 19, 2023 20:11
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Applewhite posted:I've heard a few of the smarter malls are moving away from retail and converting themselves into indoor theme parks and recreation areas. Things you can't get online. I was at Twelve Oaks in Novi, MI recently. There's a thing called the Detroit Selfie Museum. Pay like $25 and you can go get your picture taken in little staged areas (up in the clouds, in a rose-covered bathtub, etc). They also sell hair extensions and makeup. It's the kind of thing that I would have scoffed at ten years ago, but it makes me smile a little bit now. olives black fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Apr 20, 2023 02:10
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Where did the mall Santa touch you, OP?
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Apr 24, 2023 14:19
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It's not a real mall anyway unless there is an Auntie Anne's directly across from the Hot Topic directly south of the Target and just north of the Sears that's been "under construction" for 8 years. Now I want a pretzel
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Apr 24, 2023 14:44
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Treecko posted:It's not a real mall anyway unless there is an Auntie Anne's directly across from the Hot Topic directly south of the Target and just north of the Sears that's been "under construction" for 8 years. 
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Apr 24, 2023 14:46
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We could get both! And then go bowling! Maybe get our ears pierced at the shady booth in the middle of the hall?
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Apr 24, 2023 14:49
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Treecko posted:We could get both! And then go bowling! Maybe get our ears pierced at the shady booth in the middle of the hall? There was a bowling alley in the mall you went to? That would be awesome. Also, even then, I knew those unsterilizable piercing guns were loving gross.
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Apr 24, 2023 14:50
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You mean the Piercing Pagoda?
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Treecko posted:It's not a real mall anyway unless there is an Auntie Anne's directly across from the Hot Topic directly south of the Target and just north of the Sears that's been "under construction" for 8 years. Every 10 years or so i forget how bad those pretzels are and try one again, usually making it two bites in before tossing it in the trash. They coat them in what seems like a mixture of sugar and butter, and they taste nothing like a proper Bavarian pretzel at all.
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Apr 24, 2023 14:56
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YeahTubaMike posted:There was a bowling alley in the mall you went to? That would be awesome. I'm going to take that a a no The bowling alley is in the basement level by the emergency tornado shelter lol It's actually pretty fun and I still go to it sometimes I never got anything pierced either but every day is a new opportunity. My tetanus shot is up to date so maybe I'll gamble at the tattoo place instead It right by the game shop and they sell bongs so I trust thier credentials
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Apr 24, 2023 14:59
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The_Franz posted:Every 10 years or so i forget how bad those pretzels are and try one again, usually making it two bites in before tossing it in the trash. They coat them in what seems like a mixture of sugar and butter, and they taste nothing like a proper Bavarian pretzel at all. You gotta get the jalapeño ones and wait in the line while they make it while dodging some stranger's kids headbutting you in the back of your knee It's a whole experience and it tastes better after you put in the work The cream cheese helps too.
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There's a bowling alley/arcade at Great Lakes Crossing called Round 1. Last time I was in there they had some newer anime rhythm and rail shooter machines. I should like it a lot more than I do. Nothing can fill the hole in my heart left by Gameworks, it seems.
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Apr 24, 2023 15:23
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I went to the Wyoming Valley Mall last August and it was super sad for some inexplicable reason also
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One thing I noticed is that in various sci-fi futures, there doesn't seem to be any malls (heck barely a super market in some). Are they dystopian or utopian?
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I watched an Adam Ruins Everything that posited that malls of the future would be made outdoors, but I don't really see how that differs from a shopping district.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I watched an Adam Ruins Everything that posited that malls of the future would be made outdoors, but I don't really see how that differs from a shopping district. They built one of those here where it's an open-air shopping center designed to look like a town. It looks and feels artificial, and while the concept may work in places where winter isn't a thing, the shops there have a noticeable drop-off in business when it's cold out.
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To be a propor mall you need to have maps installed at the entrance And a movie theater and hair salon Old Navy and Gap have to be on opposite ends tho it just wouldn't make sense to have them too close to each other. We have 37 stores and 6 employees to run them, it's a good business model. Hey Kevin I don't care how many people are in line at the Warhammer store, somebody puked in the hallway by Starbucks and you need to restock the toilet paper on the 7th floor bathroom.
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Treecko posted:The bowling alley is in the basement level by the emergency tornado shelter lol A bowling alley in a basement that you have to access via a nondescript entrance is a proper bowling alley. Bonus points if it smells of tobacco and alcohol, and has some dilapidated arcade machines in the corner. The kind of place where your grandfather in the 50s/60s was puffing away on a cigar with the boys while drinking brown liquor every Wednesday night.
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Heres 900 reminders malls used to be cool Remember when you could abandon your child in a plastic labyrinth and collect them when you sober up? INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE! seeing the frys it became slowly bleed into a withered husk was painful X JAKK fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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The_Franz posted:A bowling alley in a basement that you have to access via a nondescript entrance is a proper bowling alley. Bonus points if it smells of tobacco and alcohol, and has some dilapidated arcade machines in the corner. A hundred years ago I went to a goon meet at a duck pin bowling alley in Baltimore and it was a bit like what you've described here, and the whole place was staffed by one guy in a Burzum shirt
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YeahTubaMike posted:I watched an Adam Ruins Everything that posited that malls of the future would be made outdoors, but I don't really see how that differs from a shopping district. I understand this as the concept of the "power center" that started to take over in US suburbs in the mid 2000s. Multiple big box stores as anchors, almost certainly a Walmart/Target and/or a Home Depot/Lowes, surrounded by islands with smaller stores and restaurants that might otherwise choose to locate in a mall. And of course, a vast sea of parking. Most of this is "triple net" leasing (tenant pays their share of property tax, insurance, and maintenance) so there's less operational expense for the landlord than an enclosed mall. Getting closer to the landlord's platonic ideal of putting up money once and then collecting unencumbered rent forever. The_Franz posted:They built one of those here where it's an open-air shopping center designed to look like a town. It looks and feels artificial, and while the concept may work in places where winter isn't a thing, the shops there have a noticeable drop-off in business when it's cold out. SF Bay Area has Bay Street in Emeryville, which incorporated apartments/condos above the pedestrian-oriented shopping street with a bunch of big-dollar retailers. I think Santana Row in San Jose is much the same concept. It doesn't really work in Emeryville because the neighborhood immediately surrounding is still a car-oriented asphalt disaster. Sure, it's walkable, but you're better off driving to get to the walkable part. And it always seemed a somewhat bizarre way to live anyway. Yeah, I'd totally love to be able to pop downstairs to the Apple store, because I buy a different-colored iPhone every week...
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Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaby ball, suck God moral Takeuchi
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The_Franz posted:A bowling alley in a basement that you have to access via a nondescript entrance is a proper bowling alley. Bonus points if it smells of tobacco and alcohol, and has some dilapidated arcade machines in the corner. This exactly cept my mom dumped me off to chain smoke at the bar The good mall used to be on the South side but after they removed the carousel what was the point of going? Who needs parents when you got House of the Dead and Primal Fury?
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Some idiot entrepreneur decided one day circa 1988 to build an upscale mini-mall for bourgie people right next to the Tucson Mall (the largest boomingest mall in town) and call it the Tucson Galleria. Three stories of shops with a covered parking garage and movie theater on the third floor. I went there with my mom and sister in 1990 to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the movie theater, and there was maybe three places open in the shopping area: a nail salon, a shoe store, and an Italian restaurant we ate at before going to the movies. I only remember it was an Italian restaurant because they had sausages curing from the ceiling, and there were eager musicians singing Italian folk music happy to play for us since the entire place was dead. The Galleria closed in 1992 to no one’s surprise. It then became an American Home Furnishings that basically just moved in the entire building without remodeling while the theater became a second-run theater that was my go to for an assload of movies for many, many years. That theater freaking owned. AHF seemed to have been popular for many years until they left sometime in the late ‘00s, and they vacated the building and it went right back to exactly how I remember it looking back in 1990: deserted. The owners of the building closed off the shopping portion and glassed off the theater on the third floor, which remained open. You could still look down from the theater area at a failure of a building with decor stuck in the 1980s, escalators that no longer moved, dozens of storefronts with gates forever down, and dead plants everywhere. Comcast bought the entire building around ten years ago and gutted/converted it to a support center. Gone was my favorite cheapie theater for good  Now there are no more second-run theaters in town 
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I got my left ear pierced at the mall when I was 13 and it got infected. only kept the piercing a couple months before I gave up on it, I can still kind of feel where the hole was though
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My local mall is still going strong for some reason.
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Treecko posted:This exactly cept my mom dumped me off to chain smoke at the bar Did your mom regale you with stories of being left in the car in the casino parking lot as well?
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Probably a butt funk
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X JAKK posted:Heres 900 reminders malls used to be cool The reminder of what book stores used to be hurts. If I was good I could get one mass market paperback.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:The reminder of what book stores used to be hurts. I was in a Chapters last week and half the store was just chachkies and Aliexpress trash. I mean they still had books but it's clearly less of a focus than it was before.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:Did your mom regale you with stories of being left in the car in the casino parking lot as well? Ppppfttt I wish Tho I did get to bet on a few horses at the track...
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Should I make the drive out to Mall Of America from Michigan? I have a very lame bucket list and that monstrosity is on it, but I feel like I am going to regret it heavily
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Only if you ride the Snoopy train and have lunch at the Rainforest Cafe
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Treecko posted:Only if you ride the Snoopy train and have lunch at the Rainforest Cafe so that's a no then
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Imagine ordering poo poo from Amazon to be delivered in a day or two in a wasteful cardboard box three sizes too big to save a dollar when you can just go the mall and get it now, shaking my drat head Honestly yeah this. It's also nice to try on clothes. And the indoor playgrounds are nice for letting the kids run around on when it's hot outside.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Imagine ordering poo poo from Amazon to be delivered in a day or two in a wasteful cardboard box three sizes too big to save a dollar when you can just go the mall and get it now, shaking my drat head my local mall consistently stocks only the most basic bitch everything, except for clothes where i want basic bitch everything and they have anything but amazon understands my aesthetically stunted computer touchin rear end better than the mall ever could now
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