Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Mammal malls
From this article on the death of malls, quoted by Stockman:
Nope. Still there, still reasonably active considering that Ponca is declining.
Strip malls are the mammals, quietly thriving under the feet of the dinosaur indoor malls. When the dinosaurs die from overconsumption, the mammals remain.
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Sidenote: Would your Googlecar know what to do in this casual parking lot, where cars have self-organized without noticing the lines? Or would it just keep zipping around like a Roomba, avoiding obstacles and never stopping?
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“Everybody has memories from childhood of going to the mall,” said Jack Thomas, 26, one of three partners who run the site in their spare time. “Nobody ever thinks a mall is going to up and die.”Hmm. Everybody? Maybe everybody, 26, has those memories. Everybody, 65, doesn't have those memories. Indoor malls didn't arrive until I was well into adulthood. Probably 26. But strip malls were definitely around when I was a kid. Ponca had a couple of strip malls. I have distinct 1954 memories of a mall on East Hartford, centered on a TG&Y store. Strip malls came first. Did they die first?
Nope. Still there, still reasonably active considering that Ponca is declining.
Strip malls are the mammals, quietly thriving under the feet of the dinosaur indoor malls. When the dinosaurs die from overconsumption, the mammals remain.
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Sidenote: Would your Googlecar know what to do in this casual parking lot, where cars have self-organized without noticing the lines? Or would it just keep zipping around like a Roomba, avoiding obstacles and never stopping?
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