“Retail” Comic

Somebody on Flickr found this for me:

My Newmarket Fair Mall Sociology Essay (April, 2007)

My superior; Brian Florence over at deadmalls.com surprised me this morning by pasting my essay I wrote for my Sociology 202 class last year on Newmarket Fair.

The essay is here.

Also, he finally posted something I’ve been working on and off with for a while. A blog that mentions tiny updates on each mall at deadmalls.com. Sometimes we get a little update on a mall that is on the site. An update that is important, but um…not important enough to open the page, edit the HTML, and FTP it to the server? The blog is at http://deadmalls.wordpress.com.

Birth, death and shopping

Article on the economist that mentions us at deadmalls.com.

deadmalls.com Calendar

We FINALLY have the deadmalls.com calendar up at the deadmalls.com cafepress.com sore.

“Super K Mart Queensbury New York late night walk in”

Deadmalls.com creators Peter Blackbird and Brian Florence take a late night walk into KMart sometime (in I’m guessing) the early 2000’s.

Not only is it the only KMart in New York, it is the only decent looking Kmart as well.

// note from Brian Florence//

Hey,

thanks for the link

just to clarify, its not the only Kmart in NY.. its the only Kmart Super center in NY.  and New England.  There may be one in PA somewhere.  I know Ohio has several.

Brian

Retail Ghosts

Deadmalls.com was mentioned today in an article in the Columbus Dispatch.

The Virginia Film Office (reposted)

{Walnut Mall [torn down], Petersburg, VA}

…. what is UP with the weights in center court?! Did the security guard who was looking over the abandoned place at night decide to do exercise?

 

{Greenbriar Mall, Chesapeake VA, when you look at the photos note that there is a store called “mothers” and another store called “father and son shoes” This mall had some major parental issues…}

I fixed the links on this entry of mall photos from the Virginia Film Office.

Also, Miller & Rhoads (empty Richmond, VA location…I assume this was the flagship store)

Smith & Welton department store (Norfolk, VA location…I assume this was a downtown location?)
It’s hard to believe that department stores were so massive back then.

I remember driving by this dump a lot … Kings Flea Market.

One more! Check out the old Wal Mart in these photos.

//edit, May 25, 2008//

More Walnut Mall pictures (from the same website — I’m just afraid that pictures will be deleted one day) under the cut:

Deadmalls.com on Wikipedia

deadmalls.com now has a Wikipedia Page.

My Deadmalls.com Journal Cover (2005)

I made this almost two years ago, and this blog has been around for almost two years and I’ve never shown this?!?

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About 90% of those pictures are from deadmalls.com. I made the journal before I knew Brian over there and became assistant editor of deadmalls.com.

I Made It So I’ll Post It Here