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maryjane
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APR 18, 04:12 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
When I was in high school (1969-73) hanging out at the mall wasn't really a thing yet, at least not here, although I did work at a theater in the mall. We hung out at the park or outside Jack-in-the-Box, cruised Central Ave. in downtown Phoenix or had a desert party (boondocker, kegger).
We lived out on the edge of town and I always describe those times as a mix of "That Seventies Show" and "American Graffiti" with a bit of "The Last Picture Show". If you have seen all three, you will know.
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I remember the football part for sure.
A few teams have had some luck with tackling.
Keeps the other team
from scoring so often.
Sounds too rough for me.
You don't care
if it was your last game.
You'll never get stomped
for your high school ball team again.
Where's your school spirit?
- Don't know.
See, this is what I get for betting
on my own hometown ball team.
I ought to have better sense.
Wouldn't hurt if you had
a better hometown.
You mind pointing that pool cue somewhere else?
I don't want my eye poked out.
You're damn more dangerous in
a pool hall than on a football field.
You ever heard of tackling?
Chicken fry me a steak and use meat this time......
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Wichita
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APR 18, 05:47 PM
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I actually enjoyed that.
I didn't watch the entire thing, but bits and pieces. I can pick up all the Jersey accents that people have.
What was up with the hair style back then? Crazy ugly.
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williegoat
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APR 18, 05:57 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
What was up with the hair style back then? Crazy ugly. |
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There were only two good things to come out of the eighties: President Ronald Reagan and the Pontiac Fiero.
 [This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 04-18-2021).]
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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APR 19, 09:52 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
I dunno...I was a "mall-age-rat" late 70's/early 80's. I never hung out at them much. Summer time I was busy riding my bike or dirt bike, shooting (dad built me a BB gun range in the basement when I was about 6 or 7), fishing, tromping through the woods or trying to make money for all that and winter time was "project" time. I never really did get into that whole huge "hang-out social scene", there were better things to do. |
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x2. bike, bb gun range in the basement, adventures in the woods (or on the water). Much more "Stand by Me" than "Mall Time".
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MidEngineManiac
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APR 19, 10:18 AM
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Funny thing is, I am still pretty much the same. Work-type stuff is ALL the "social"| I can handle, and a lot of time too much. I still have no interest in clubs or meetings or hanging around the park benches. If I got a weekend to kill I'll be out in the woods/farm fields/whatever, or working on some sort of project. Going out to do "peopololy" type stuff never crosses my mind.
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Jake_Dragon
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APR 19, 10:27 AM
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The only reason to go to the mall was for the Arcade. When the quarters ran out so did I.
Later I have gone and just people watch, found that girls like to go shopping at the mall and they drag guys along.
No beer so I didn't stay long.
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jonrev
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APR 19, 02:57 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by RWDPLZ:
This is actually an entire genre, search 'Dead Mall' videos, guys like Dan Bell, Sal, Retail Archeology, etc. make great videos on old malls, lots of period footage, too. |
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Them's good people... also add Unicomm Productions, Faded Commerce and Retailpocalypse to that list.
I've been documenting dead malls for over a decade. Lately I've had access to Northridge in Milwaukee, until recently an extremely well-preserved specimen that closed back in 2002, to both photograph it and rescue its media archives for digitization. Love finding generational snapshots like these, which otherwise had been left for sacrifice to the bulldozer gods.
More Northridge...[This message has been edited by jonrev (edited 04-19-2021).]
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