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    김치전!Rich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:12pm

    One less Sbarro in the world is God's work.

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      anonymize9김치전!
      2/13/14 1:18pm

      What? Cmon' now. It's the best pizza of NYC

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      I'm Bateman!!!!김치전!
      2/13/14 1:20pm
      GIF
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    BorealisRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:17pm

    This whole malls are dying thing comes as a surprise to me. Not in theory per se, but that it is actually happening.

    Here in (my big city in) Canada they are always packed - like it's hard to find a seat at the food court packed. And this is on weekdays.

    Maybe we are behind the times up north... (though not in medal standings, of course).

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      Cherith CutestoryBorealis
      2/13/14 1:26pm

      There are still a ton of successful malls in America too. There is one near me where you can barely get into the parking lot.

      Just fewer and fewer of them.

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      _i_jmarBorealis
      2/13/14 1:31pm

      I wish this happened to the malls that I used to frequent. No parking anywhere, not even the ones farthest away from the entrance.

      Hungry for food court? Suck it UP! That line is thirty minutes long, and you're not going to get that hot-dog on a stick any sooner if you leave to line up for that bathroom line that's half as long.

      Gonna exchange that shitty present your in-laws gave you at Sears? Better tell the 14 people in front of you to STFU and take the store credit instead of cash.

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    OMG!PONIES!Rich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:16pm

    Forget the food court. Let's see some photos of abandoned Claire's and Hot Topics.

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      KittensAndUnicorns_v2_The UprisingOMG!PONIES!
      2/13/14 1:17pm

      don't forget charlotte russe and contempo casuals!

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      Cherith CutestoryOMG!PONIES!
      2/13/14 1:29pm

      I'm not gonna lie to you, man. I loved both of those places.

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    PlaneisRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:18pm

    You're making me sad. I grew up going to this mall. Not that we ever bought anything really. But I spent a lot of time wandering and eating in that food court. Also, this whole "north bethesda" thing is crap. It's Rockville. Period. There is a huge chasm in between Bethesda and the mall called Interstate 495. It aint freaking Bethesda and it aint North Bethesda. That's just something people started calling it to seem cool. I also have a video of this shut down mall on my youtube...

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      BabylegsPlaneis
      2/13/14 1:29pm

      Uhhhhhhh THANK YOU. There's no shame in Rockville's game, and White Flint was a pretty classy mall. Just accept that you are in Rockville.

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      oxymoran7Planeis
      2/13/14 1:31pm

      I'm with you. Rockville sounds way cooler than North Bethesda.

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    fuck a stupid girlRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:13pm

    I am going to write a mall based porn. These will make perfect sets.

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      nigelastydameiaburn5fuck a stupid girl
      2/13/14 1:30pm

      "Sinning Buns"

      "Titsy-Kreme"

      "Pound Her Express"

      "Sbutto"

      "Ass and Sobbing 31 Beavers"

      "Chicks Filled, Laid"

      "Hot Ass on a Dick"

      "Assy Anne's"

      "Arby's" (it's already dirty).

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      fuck a stupid girlnigelastydameiaburn5
      2/13/14 1:35pm

      "Claire's Asshole"

      "Hot Tops"

      "Forever Taking It In The Face"

      "Torrid BBW"

      "Wetzel's Wet Holes"

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    McGarnagleRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:14pm

    I hope some intrepid young filmmaker is taking advantage of this!

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      Gary-XMcGarnagle
      2/13/14 1:17pm

      Maybe with a zombie movie of some kind!

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      McGarnagleGary-X
      2/13/14 1:19pm

      Anything, really. It's like a huge soundstage, all it needs is some props!

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    Hart88Rich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:39pm

    Hmmmm....

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      Double-ScorpionHart88
      2/13/14 2:02pm

      Disco Pants and Haircuts!

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      Hart88Double-Scorpion
      2/13/14 2:19pm

      The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!

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    Turbo60657Rich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:30pm

    These photos are eerie and compelling. I saw the first picture and was reminded of the mall I grew up near (Woodmar Mall in Hammond, IN). It was originally a small outdoor mall that was enclosed/enlarged in the 1960s, and then remodeled unconventionally quite a few times. Here's the main drag of the mall before it was torn down in the early 00s.

    These "dead malls" seem to have become commonplace all over the U.S.

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      ThidrekrTurbo60657
      2/13/14 1:42pm

      It's part of the typical "boom/bust" cycle. Building new malls were all the rage in the 1980s, but in reality, most of these cities only needed one good mall—maybe two, if one of them is particularly upscale. Instead, these cities would have 4 or 5 malls, leaving the losers to rot like we have now.

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      BabylegsTurbo60657
      2/13/14 1:45pm

      Is there anything worse in a mall than that gross, doo-doo brown uniform brick shit?

      A: no.

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    toothpetardRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 1:20pm

    This is what living in space would be like; except nobody can ever leave.

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      OKTOBERFISTtoothpetard
      2/18/14 1:03pm

      You watched too much Deep Space 9.

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      toothpetardOKTOBERFIST
      2/18/14 1:08pm

      I don't watch no tayvay shows. But I do imagine the creeping discomfort I get in engineered spaces, and picture never ever being able to leave or open a window.

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    DoctorNineRich Juzwiak
    2/13/14 2:40pm

    The lust of consumerism can no longer be sated, by placing multiple temptations in close proximity, and then piping in subliminal Muzak, to urge the buyer to inevitable purchasing orgasm.

    No.

    Our collective fetish is not so easily extinguished in this age of interweb commerce. We have retreated into a darkened room with our computers, into a more private consumer experience, with no distractions, and no extraneous capital-intensive real estate overhead.

    We have left the Muzak, for the hard-core world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter-driven individualized pimping, that leaves no possible nook or cranny in the conscious or subconscious mind untouched, unprobed, or unexploited.

    There is more that we want. And we want it more, NOW.

    But where we get it from, will be ubiquitous 'Amazon Fulfillment Centers', perhaps even by flying helicopter robots, or their spiritual peers, not your parents' Malls. Egads...

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      norweegDoctorNine
      2/13/14 8:02pm

      you make shopping sound so lurid

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      DoctorNinenorweeg
      2/13/14 8:04pm

      You know. You don't own your stuff.

      Your stuff owns you.

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