#malls

Miscellaneous | I Like This

Here's What Malls Have Looked Like Through the Years, From the '50s Until Now

Malls are really no different from the marketplaces in ancient civilizations — though the introduction of things like mall Santas, specialty stores and food courts certainly changed everything.

Entertainment | Quarantine Life: Things To Do

A Meme Account About a Mall Is Now a Lifeline | WIRED

The parody Twitter account devoted to The Americana at Brand is absurd. But now that LA residents are stuck at home, it's a strange source of comfort.

Miscellaneous | Los Angeles Stuff

How Santa Monica Is Trying to Lure People Back to the Third Street Promenade

Can fun chairs, fake grass, and communal pianos make the outdoor mall relevant again?

Politics | Politics

More retailers are going bankrupt than ever - Laredo Morning Times

Ask anyone running a store and they'll tell you that it's tough to be in the retail business. Merchants big and small are struggling to meet the demands of a customer base that is demanding better service, lower prices and products both in-store and from

Miscellaneous | I Like This

1989, America's malls: The places where nothing — and everything — has changed

In 1989, Michael Galinsky, then a 20-year-old student, took a month to traverse the U.S. Everywhere he went, he documented the same place: the shopping mall. The results are now an archive of a vanished world, simultaneously familiar and foreign, trivial and full of meaning.