This is basically the limbo the one nearest me has been in for a decade. There are still some stores in it but like 2/3s of it is empty.
I tried to take her to the drive in while driving an old van with no back windows that my parents had. When I showed up at her house in the van, her dad said no, and wouldn’t let her go.
I am occasionally forced to go to the mall near where I grew up, and it is thriving, but also a much different ethnic crowd from the 80’s/90’s. It was straight white back then, now it is a diverse mix of South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern and African American, befitting the changes in the area. The malls in the areas of metro Detroit that haven’t changed ethnically are dead.
I had to get the car serviced by the mall one Saturday morning so I walked over there and just walked laps with all the old people for a couple of hours. It was delightful.
Around 2010, a developer tried to purchase my old mall where I grew up and turn it into a retirement community with assisted living facilities. It’s next to the local hospital and they were going to redo the stores into living spaces. They found out the place is loaded with unremediated asbestos and that killed the deal because they couldn’t do any remodeling without removing it. It’s vacant now, with a couple of restaurants as out buildings using the parking lots.
The JC Penny and Dillard's attached to our mall are still doing reasonably well somehow. But there's so little else inside the mall. They torn down the attached Sears that used to be there
Bought The Used self titled debut album during a stop on a church trip and it changed my life forever. I think it was a Sam Goody's or an FYE
Bought a Heart Greatest Hits CD at Rasputins sometime in late 1987, my first. Wife still has it in her work car CD changer
Grew up with the bastion of Omaha area malls...Crossroads and Westroads. Need my #Nebraska Cornhuskers bros to tell me if they still even exist. haven't been to either since '99
My first CD purchase was at Record Town at the Twelve Oaks Mall. I got Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits, Zeppelin’s IV, Eagles Greatest Hits vol. 2 and Grateful Dead's American Beauty.
first 2 CDs I purchased was U2's Joshua Tree and LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out, both came in those longboxes that were supposed to deter shoplifting lol
This, either Best Buy or Circuit City before it went out of business. Borders Book Store was good but by the time that got established anywhere near where I lived I was ripping tons of music torrance.
I remember when GnR's Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 came out...our local record store stayed open past midnight to sell those bad boys the minute the clock struck 1201. line was stretched outside and halfway around the building. What a time to be alive
First CD I ever purchased myself was I think Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill in like 4th or 5th grade. Prior to that my dad let me borrow his CDs which led to a young one two having a weird obsession with REM and the Beetles, specifically Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
First CD I bought was at a used record store was Joshua Tree. My brother’s friend helped pick it out as one of the rules my mom had was no parental advisory. First two CDs I owned were Green Day Dookie and Offspring Smash
My dad loved music and his computer illiterate ass got Napster as soon as our Roadrunner broadband internet was installed. What a moment that was.
When I was in first grade, there was a t-shirt shop in our mall that would put iron-on pictures on shirts. I used money I got for my birthday to purchase a KISS t-shirt. My mom was a musician who encouraged this type of thing, so she let me where it for my first grade class photo at school.
my white southern grandmother bought me the explicit version of get rich or die trying she used to work with chris paul's mom and cp3's mom made her a mix cd of bone thugz and nelly and the like that she would ride around with us grandkids listening to in her camry
my parents were legit members of the 700 Club and totally bought into Tipper Gore's bullshit. KISS in our house was banned because lol "Knights in Satan's Service" and all that rigamarole
Dungeons and Dragons being caught up in the Satanic Panic is one of the funniest things in retrospect.
pretty goddamn much KISS- banned Motley Crue- banned because of pentagrams on album cover Iron Maiden - banned because of demons on album cover Ozzy/Black Sabbath - banned because of biting head of a bat and pissing on the Alamo (lol) pretty much grew up in the mid-80's on Top 40 music because its all i was allowed. Remember going apeshit over Huey Fucking Lewis & the News, Duran Duran, and the Ghostbusters soundtrack...my first 3 cassettes I owned
A new guy started at work today and his laugh sounds like a Podracer from Episode 1. It’s driving me fucking insane because it’s such a weird thing to compare and nobody would get it if I told them.
A little better, they were able to halt the progress of the disease before it hit his lungs, no intubation needed They removed his cath and by some miracle he summoned enough big dick energy to urinate on his own He can wiggle his feet a little, articulate his hand enough to pet the therapy dog He needs to start eating so he has the strength to go through all the therapy he needs Kendall came up on Sunday which perked him up, she shaved his head for him. I expect him home hopefully by end of July
Glad you've had a few positives, again from my anecdotal experience its a long road but one with plenty of light at the end of the tunnel. You can't even tell my buddy ever went through anything.
Meatball broke his ankle and had problems with it for the better of 2 years, he claims this derailed his future NBA career...in his words "maybe the biggest what-if? in sports" Now he's treating this like he's Derrick Rose rehabbing and quote "I'm gonna come back stronger than DRose"
First CD I owned was Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Had two friends that bought Dookie and Smash and then we took turns trading them
My mom got caught up in this. I think it was like a 60 Minutes or 20/20 segment. When I actually found out what it was years later it was hilarious She bought me Reign in Blood by Slayer though which was cool
They pulled the foley because they were terrified of him getting a bladder infection. If he wasn't able to muster the strength to pee on his own, they were gonna straight cath him every 6 hours....Fear is one hell of a motivator