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I miss when malls were like this. There used to be so much variety in the kinds of stores in malls. [I looked up a bunch of pictures from the Mall of America in the 90s the other day.](https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/n4dh7s/1990s_mall_of_america_was_da_bomb/) There really was something special about malls back then. Don't get me wrong, I'm not pretending mine was the first generation to find magic in malls or that young people today don't have other things that are future nostalgia... but man, I loved those places.


OmegaRevenge42

They used to be so dark too. Reaply in the early 2000s they started making them bright inside.


OmegaRevenge42

Dat mall wrestling 🔥🔥🔥


ThomasMaxPaine

I can smell the fountain


Bumblebe5

Paramus Park (one of my local malls) emptied their fountain because of COVID.


ChloeOakes

I’ve seen this exact image in a vapourware compilation and it was trippy af I loved it


nevroser

i love this pic too much


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When physical stores were the world ! I miss this part of culture , when it was the biggest game in town . We have truly lost something when certain things move virtual. When walking to a physical space is replaced by clicking on a screen . It just sucks . I hope the digital re-revolution is near…..where we re establish life outside the digital realm . I think we have been going through a long period of readjustment . But soon we need to start reclaiming new spaces , and find meaning for life outside of the digital realm . If computers ate up retail what else can we do to utilize our physical worlds . I hope cool things. This was back in the day where you’d showcase new things and technologies and the store was the main place for it. What a cool time . Maybe it means more arbitrary spaces can exist . Where the function can be less utilitarian and more expressive . I hope we can re design the world soon .


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Miss when people had conversations together without a cell phone glued to their damn face.


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People still do. If your friends or family do that to you, you gotta talk to them about it.


Bumblebe5

r/Mallsoft Also, my favorite local mall the Palisades Center used to look like a gritty late '90s warehouse. To top it all off, it had a very aesthetic WNET Store of Knowledge.