“ard days at the Mall: Can Staunton Mall endure another near-death experience?”

Article from the Agusta Free Press about how Staunton Mall is dying. I’m mentioned down at the bottom, along with some other people who agree that Staunton Mall is way past its prime.

Anita Rose
“At first it didn’t seem that bad. I mean, there were some empty storefronts and mom-and-pop stores. The Steve & Barry’s was closing, and then when the Books-A-Million closed down, that’s when I really started to notice that it was heading for something pretty bad.”
“My thought when the Steve & Barry’s and Books-A-Million left was, Who is going to move into those spaces in this day and age? It’s not like there are a lot of new anchor stores just looking for a new place to set up. Particularly in a small market like Staunton.”

Food Lion Advertisement, Early 1990’s

Back in 2002 mom gave me these magazines from the early 90’s, I ripped out all the advertisements and put them in a folder for future use.

This is the way Food Lion looked when mom and I started to shop there because everybody in Hampton was shopping there.

I don’t particularly like Food Lion. Most of the stores are junky and overpriced.

Circuit City, Newport News, VA (closed, April 2009)

After I took this pic as I was driving away this grandma and her grandchildren were walking their poodle to PetSmart and the poodle got on her hind legs and looked in the windows of the closed store. I couldn’t get my camera out in time.

I bought my first DVD here in 2003. Strangers With Candy Season 1.

deadmalls.com at the Apple Store (Norfolk, VA)

deadmalls.com at the Apple Store (Norfolk, VA), originally uploaded by Look In The Tunk.

Shameless promotion.

I just noticed. I think all of the computers at the Apple store have photobooth taken off the toolbar. But you can still go to it in Applications.

June 17, 2009 WAVY Report on Peninsula Town Center (Coliseum Mall)

(Just uploaded, if video does not show up try again later)

1994 McDelivery Commercial (not mine)

Wow I remember this. We had a magnet with the phone number on it for years. I remember I wanted McDonalds delivered to our house for my 11th birthday party in 1994, it didn’t happen.

I can’t imagine how pricey this got for McDonalds. Delivering a $6 meal?

Circuit City Website, Circa 1996

(I had a better post for this, but apparently WordPress or Firefox ate the end of it)

Oh, wow you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the Circuit City webpage from 1996.

Here is a screen cap in case that archive.org page doens’t work, which it doesn’t from time to time:

You guize, the store locator is totally done in Microsoft FrontPage. Now, FrontPage is fine for a personal webpage, or your Daily Show fan page, but for a company? Even in 1996? The generic “store locator” graphic is totally made in mid 1990’s colors.

I also like that the site has the new feature of sending things to Mexico.

Former Newmarket Fair / Newmakret North Mall Entrance(s).

I took these when I was home during Easter.

Netcenter actually had signs up at the old entrances of the mall. This was the one in between Sears and the old Leggett. Which is now a Sears and Northrop Grumman.

No wait, maybe its this one.

Yeah I moved my iPhone too quick while taking the photo . This is where Miller & Rhoads used to be. It’s now offices for Verizon.

More stores closing at area malls – NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA |

More stores closing at area malls – NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA |.

I saw a promo for this during The Office last night, but I forgot to record it.

I’ve never been to any of the malls mentioned in the story (also includes video).

YouTube – Ridiculous Grocery Store Video

….wow.

Apparently these guys are technically middlemen, and according to this blog entry only three grocery brokers exist?

The scene with the old man ‘rapping’ is perhaps the most painfully awkward thing on YouTube.