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re: Shopping Malls Do you miss them....some?
Posted on 1/3/25 at 11:07 pm to Tempratt
Posted on 1/3/25 at 11:07 pm to Tempratt
Malls of the 80's into the mid-90's were awesome.
KB Toys - Learningsmith - World of Science - Record/CD stores - Bookstores - Spencer's - Food court pizza, corn dogs, and Chinese food- Namco arcade
Malls were fun to hang around at Christmas time.
Those were the days.
KB Toys - Learningsmith - World of Science - Record/CD stores - Bookstores - Spencer's - Food court pizza, corn dogs, and Chinese food- Namco arcade
Malls were fun to hang around at Christmas time.
Those were the days.
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Posted on 1/3/25 at 11:07 pm to STigers
Lake Forest Plaza
Lake Forest Plaza from the mid 70's to the early 80's was a great place to be as a teenager. I grew up on the Northshore in Ms and our church youth group would go to "The Plaza" for ice skating and shopping every couple of months or so....... if we weren't going to 'The Plaza" we were probably going to Ponchartrain Beach or to a Jazz game to see the Pistol or to the beach at Henderson Point/Pass Christian. Those were great years to be a teenager in the New Orleans and Ms Gulf Coast area.
Lake Forest Plaza from the mid 70's to the early 80's was a great place to be as a teenager. I grew up on the Northshore in Ms and our church youth group would go to "The Plaza" for ice skating and shopping every couple of months or so....... if we weren't going to 'The Plaza" we were probably going to Ponchartrain Beach or to a Jazz game to see the Pistol or to the beach at Henderson Point/Pass Christian. Those were great years to be a teenager in the New Orleans and Ms Gulf Coast area.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 11:57 pm to Tempratt
We were in a Dicks tonight and I saw kids just roaming around (it's attached to a mall). I even good my wife that I didn't know kids still did that.
I miss the people watching in the late 80s-90s. If you'd go to the mall you'd see a pretty sizeable cross section of America. I think my parents (American Graffiti generation) would probably say the same thing about walking & driving around downtown on the weekends. My dad has some pretty epic stories about really stupid shite they did (and thanks to my grandpa being a deputy, got away with) behind the wheel.
I miss the people watching in the late 80s-90s. If you'd go to the mall you'd see a pretty sizeable cross section of America. I think my parents (American Graffiti generation) would probably say the same thing about walking & driving around downtown on the weekends. My dad has some pretty epic stories about really stupid shite they did (and thanks to my grandpa being a deputy, got away with) behind the wheel.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 6:45 am to Tempratt
The mall by me is always packed. I’ve never personally experienced a mall decline.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 6:52 am to DesScorp
That’s what happened to Esplanade Mall in Kenner. It started bringing in the “cheap” clothing stores that teens liked and then slowly it started becoming more ghetto. The mall shoppers left as did stores. A shame, bc Lakeside is a pain.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 6:55 am to Lonnie Utah
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I miss the nostalgia of them. Nothing like hanging out the arcade, record store and food court as a teenager in the early-mid 1980's.
This. And it's still nice to park your car once and hit up several different stores in one trip.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 6:58 am to Tempratt
I miss West Oaks Mall in Houston
Posted on 1/4/25 at 7:27 am to Dixie2023
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A shame, bc Lakeside is a pain.
I hate going to Lakeside, the parking lot is always full and it can be a hassle to get in or out of the parking area. Meanwhile Esplanade had its own exit to cut down on one of the major intersections to get the mall from West Bound I-10 and that mall is the mall that died. There is still a Target there. But it does feel ghostly at night at the entrance to the mall circle road.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 7:39 am to TheFonz
Record stores were the place to be.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 7:51 am to Tempratt
I miss having that youthful urge to meet new people or hang out in large groups of people you already know. The mall was the perfect place to do both.
You could meet girls from other schools in the area, eat at Chik-Fil-A, buy a CD, buy a poster for your room at Spencers, & catch a movie any night of the week. There was little area by the loading dock at Sears where we could smoke cigarettes & noone could see us.
You could meet girls from other schools in the area, eat at Chik-Fil-A, buy a CD, buy a poster for your room at Spencers, & catch a movie any night of the week. There was little area by the loading dock at Sears where we could smoke cigarettes & noone could see us.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 7:59 am to Tarps99
Yes. To me, it was the better mall. Good anchor stores and easy parking and entrance/exit. I detest Lakeside and probably have been once in I can’t remember how long. It probably stays open bc it’s the only mall in metro nola. The economy hasn’t slowed it down.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:05 am to Tempratt
In Houston we have a few nice malls. I like going to The Galleria, Memorial City Mall, and The Woodlands.
Also I lived in Kuala Lumpur for two years. KL has some really nice malls.
So malls are not dead like in my hometown of Baton Rouge. They are still a thing in many places in the world.
Also I lived in Kuala Lumpur for two years. KL has some really nice malls.
So malls are not dead like in my hometown of Baton Rouge. They are still a thing in many places in the world.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:10 am to TexasTiger89
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Also I lived in Kuala Lumpur for two years. KL has some really nice malls.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in downtime KL, Petronas Towers area. And I agree the malls in KL are fantastic and remind me of old school mall vibe we had growing up. They are also paaaacked on the weekends.
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So malls are not dead like in my hometown of Baton Rouge. They are still a thing in many places in the world.
all depends on how much effort and security is invested. apparently Louisiana isn’t interested in malls.
This post was edited on 1/4/25 at 8:13 am
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:11 am to Tempratt
I live in Atlanta and we have like 10 malls - every single mall is always packed and vibrant so I can’t say I miss them because all of our malls are kicking arse and still great places to shop
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:11 am to Adajax
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And it's still nice to park your car once and hit up several different stores in one trip.
This makes me realize more and more we are heading towards society as predicted in the movie Wall-e. Think how much walking people used to do in a mall to get a few items. Now just open your phone on the sofa.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:15 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Record stores were the place to be.
I can still remember how the record stores smelled with all that new vinyl. I'd go in to add to my Elton John collection and check to see if there was a copy of the Chuck Mangione Tarantellas album. I'd wind up walking out with Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, twelve-inch singles of Rock Me Amadeus by Falco, or Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling, Cargo by Men at Work, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply by Slade, multiple albums by Genesis, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Yes, Phil Collins . . .
So much good (and some not so good) music to be had on vinyl, cassette, and, around 1986 or so, CDs started coming out in teh mainstream.
The entire mall experience for me was-
- Check out Camelot Records
- Scour Musicland for anything Camelot may not have had
- Make a pass through K*Bee Toys to check on the little brother and sister, and maybe pick out a plastic MLB cap that I didn't have
- Go to Pied Piper Music store to play on the new Korg M1, Roland Alpha Juno, Kurzweil K2000, or Yamaha DX7 synthesizers and try to figure out how to ever save up $1500 or $2000 for a real synth. Then look at the trumpets and flugel horns that I could actually talk Dad into purchasing for me
- Run by Chess King and find a deal on the latest Miami Vice styles
- Stop by Chick-Fil-A on the way out. (A Chick-Fil-A sandwich was $1.72 at the Huntington Mall back then and fifteen or sixteen-year-old me couldn't get enough!)
Malls started their slow deaths somewhere around the mid-1990s. I was a superintendent with a GC and built three of them in the 90s: Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg, Bonita Lakes Mall in Meridian, and Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville, GA. Then renovated Pemberton Square Mall in Vicksburg and Springdale Mall in Mobile.
Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville has succumbed to the 'hood over the past few years. I was also disappointed to see the dilapidated condition of Bonita Lakes Mall in Meridian when I passed through a couple years ago and pulled off the interstate just to go see how it looked. I haven't stopped in Hattiesburg to see Turtle Creek Mall but I imagine it's been run down as well since malls have by and large gone the way of the dodo.
I still have memories of my favorite malls though-
The Huntington Mall in Barboursville, WV
Town Center Mall in Charleston, WV
Fayette Mall in Lexington, KY
Cortana Mall in Baton Rouge
Wonderful places of magical times and memories from the 80s.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just waxing nostalgic since it's cold outside and there's nothing to do except browse the message boards or wait patiently to watch some college basketball.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:18 am to udtiger
Smart phones
Social media
Online shopping
Killed malls.
—Covid was the final nail
Social media
Online shopping
Killed malls.
—Covid was the final nail
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:19 am to TheFonz
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:21 am to Tempratt
Not gonna lie.
Still crave the greasy pizza from Sbarros.
Still crave the greasy pizza from Sbarros.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 8:22 am to cypresstiger
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Smart phones
Social media
Online shopping
Killed malls.
—Covid was the final nail
Yep
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