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Cortana Mall's final hours....
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:31 am
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:31 am
what were your favorite memories of this once, great place?
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Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:35 am to ZIGG
I for one am shocked they couldn’t keep it afloat on just the change my mom let me throw in the fountains.
RIP pizza @ Mama Brava’s… you were the OG reward for safety patrol in elementary school. You weren’t shite unless you got to ride there with the guidance counselor.
RIP pizza @ Mama Brava’s… you were the OG reward for safety patrol in elementary school. You weren’t shite unless you got to ride there with the guidance counselor.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:43 am to ZIGG
I still haven't gotten over the Bon Marche.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:47 am to ZIGG
I use to work at Merry Go Round and DJ’s across the hall (owned by the same company). This was in 1985.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:48 am to ZIGG
You could have a beer, a slice, then a smoke at Mama Bravas. Starport was the best arcade in BR for a long time. Christmas shopping and clothes shopping before school started with my mom in that place are some of my most prominent memories.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:51 am to Shiftyplus1
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Starport was the best arcade in BR for a long time.
No, Spaceport (was the name of it) was too small. Even during Cortana’s hayday, the arcade at Bon Marche was better, much bigger.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:52 am to ZIGG
Liquidate Amazon to bring back malls across the nation including Cortana
Posted on 11/11/23 at 2:56 am to theantiquetiger
Bon Marche was a bit before my time. No one went there when I was a kid.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 3:17 am to Shiftyplus1
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Bon Marche was a bit before my time
Ok zoomer.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 4:04 am to ZIGG
They should have charged an entry fee to mall walkers. That could have kept them afloat a few years.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 4:27 am to ZIGG
I remember going all the time growing up in the 90s for school shoes, Gamestop, and the Disney store by the fountain.
They kept the entrance to the actual mall open when the Dillard's Clearance store even tho there weren't any stores left but like an asian jewelery store or two. I remember having such a haunted feeling walking that bare mall. I Felt like I was gonna get shanked/grabbed and never found in that million square ft abandoned place.
They kept the entrance to the actual mall open when the Dillard's Clearance store even tho there weren't any stores left but like an asian jewelery store or two. I remember having such a haunted feeling walking that bare mall. I Felt like I was gonna get shanked/grabbed and never found in that million square ft abandoned place.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 5:11 am to ZIGG
I think back on how much my mom enjoyed shopping at malls, and how almost everyone else seemed to as well. Then I think about how I hate going to malls today, and I wonder what changed; the people or the malls?
Posted on 11/11/23 at 5:28 am to ZIGG
I remember going with my mom on weekends before mall of Louisiana opened. Lunch was always at that Taco Bell right in the middle. There was always people and full of life. Good times.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 5:45 am to ZIGG
Game Stop and the corn dog place.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 5:50 am to Shiftyplus1
quote:My parents put a Commodore-64 computer on lay-a-way for me at the computer store just down from the movie theater. Anyone remember its name?
Bon Marche was a bit before my time.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 5:58 am to theantiquetiger
Merry Go Round and Chess King were same company. What was DJ? There is a great story of the rise and fall of those cool retailers. I believe it was ultimately due to missing the boat on the parachute pants. What a time?!
Posted on 11/11/23 at 6:10 am to ZIGG
Mall Expert here.
Cortana wasn’t technically a great mall but it was a good mall all around and deserved a far better fate. Many good memories there.
Cortana wasn’t technically a great mall but it was a good mall all around and deserved a far better fate. Many good memories there.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 6:11 am to ZIGG
Worst: Got T-boned in the parking lot as a teen. Last time I have ever gone shopping on Black Friday.
Best: pre-drivers license bike rides from south BR to meet friends there. If we ran out of quarters for Space Port then free video games in the department stores. Feeling sneaky in Spencers and being sneaky Waldenbooks. Wasn’t there another bookstore? Corn dogs (I guess the slur is true) and lemonade. Orange Juliuses. Meat samples at that smoky delicious gift meat and cheese shop. DQ was a later addition but Oreo blizzards. First chick fil a in BR by a long shot. I fancied myself a skater who was better than the mulleted z cav and parachute pants wearers so it was fun judging.
Best: pre-drivers license bike rides from south BR to meet friends there. If we ran out of quarters for Space Port then free video games in the department stores. Feeling sneaky in Spencers and being sneaky Waldenbooks. Wasn’t there another bookstore? Corn dogs (I guess the slur is true) and lemonade. Orange Juliuses. Meat samples at that smoky delicious gift meat and cheese shop. DQ was a later addition but Oreo blizzards. First chick fil a in BR by a long shot. I fancied myself a skater who was better than the mulleted z cav and parachute pants wearers so it was fun judging.
Posted on 11/11/23 at 6:17 am to RoyalWe
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My parents put a Commodore-64 computer on lay-a-way for me at the computer store just down from the movie theater. Anyone remember its name?
Montgomery Ward’s?
Posted on 11/11/23 at 6:20 am to McLemore
Monkey wards was in Bon Marche
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