http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/completely-surreal-pictures-of-americas-abandoned-malls
I thought you were commanding her to ruin porn.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:31:55 AM
I thought you were commanding her to ruin porn.
No, we are both desolation porn junkies.
Those are awesome.
I have a feeling a few of those will survive the next few thousand years and get dug up, to quite a few puzzled looks. Or maybe some of the recent "copycat" malls in China, where, for example, they have a mall replica of the village of Hallstdatt:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs47/f/2009/227/0/f/hallstatt_austria_by_puddlz.jpg) (http://img.news.sina.com/culture/p/2013/0108/U142P5029T2D546457F28DT20130109113103.JPG)
http://english.sina.com/culture/p/2013/0108/546457.html
OMG I JUST CAME! These are FANTASTIC!
You know we're looking at the future, right?
Beautiful!
Why are there no squatters there?
Oh wait, your country isn't as densely populated as mine, nevermind.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
There's a shitload of salvage to be had there.
If you had a few boys working on the quiet you could make yourself a nice chunk of cash out of each of them.
Hell, if you were smart you'd find the owners and charge them for the privilege of doing so.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
I frigging hope so. A few months ago I was getting frequent visions of The Future, and I decided that prophecy is a HIGHLY overrated gift.
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on April 24, 2014, 04:27:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
I frigging hope so. A few months ago I was getting frequent visions of The Future, and I decided that prophecy is a HIGHLY overrated gift.
The ugly part is, we might be in the future that came closest to getting it right. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
No, I'm not talking about economics, or the demise of brick-and-mortar shops. I'm saying that indoor shopping malls are relics of the 20th century, stamped with the mark of obsolescence. They are icons of a byegone era destined for erasure from everything but photographs, like jell-O salad and the Salton Sea Resort.
I predict that within the next 20 years, most of the remaining indoor malls in temperate regions will either be opened up and integrated into extended shopping districts that merge with the surrounding neighborhoods, or abandoned/demolished.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
No, I'm not talking about economics, or the demise of brick-and-mortar shops. I'm saying that indoor shopping malls are relics of the 20th century, stamped with the mark of obsolescence. They are icons of a byegone era destined for erasure from everything but photographs, like jell-O salad and the Salton Sea Resort.
I predict that within the next 20 years, most of the remaining indoor malls in temperate regions will either be opened up and integrated into extended shopping districts that merge with the surrounding neighborhoods, or abandoned/demolished.
We already have something like that in Tucson, in the legal district. An open-air mall hidden from the surrounding blocks, which looks really nice from the inside, and is almost invisibe from the outside. You would think this would kill it, but they do a hell of a lot of business, as they are smack between all the parking garages, the courthouses, and the convention center, and locals love it because it seems like an organic part of the downtown area.
Quote from: Regret on April 24, 2014, 01:09:55 PM
Beautiful!
Why are there no squatters there?
Oh wait, your country isn't as densely populated as mine, nevermind.
We have POLICE FORCES to keep our homeless people OUTDOORS where they BELONG. :horrormirth:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 05:01:05 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:57:10 AM
You know we're looking at the future, right?
We're looking at A future, yes. A future in which a combination of wealth disparity and online shopping has caused many brick & mortar businesses to fail or rethink their basic strategies.
There are other futures.
No, I'm not talking about economics, or the demise of brick-and-mortar shops. I'm saying that indoor shopping malls are relics of the 20th century, stamped with the mark of obsolescence. They are icons of a byegone era destined for erasure from everything but photographs, like jell-O salad and the Salton Sea Resort.
I predict that within the next 20 years, most of the remaining indoor malls in temperate regions will either be opened up and integrated into extended shopping districts that merge with the surrounding neighborhoods, or abandoned/demolished.
We already have something like that in Tucson, in the legal district. An open-air mall hidden from the surrounding blocks, which looks really nice from the inside, and is almost invisibe from the outside. You would think this would kill it, but they do a hell of a lot of business, as they are smack between all the parking garages, the courthouses, and the convention center, and locals love it because it seems like an organic part of the downtown area.
It's a little weird because indoor malls were an absolutely integral part of my teenagerhood... seeing them relegated to the past is another little reminder that I am getting old, that my childhood was a long time ago, and that everything is transient.
In the olden days, kids, we used to have "shopping malls" that were entirely enclosed. Oh, and people smoked on the bus.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 08:26:42 PM
In the olden days, kids, we used to have "shopping malls" that were entirely enclosed. Oh, and people smoked on the bus.
Remember built in ash trays on the arms of movie theater seats?
We were fucking STUPID.
Still better than airplanes.
People smoked in the supermarket. When you finished, you just dropped the butt and stepped on it and somebody eventually swept it up.
And the cashiers had ashtrays.
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
And you know what's really, REALLY awesome? In 60 more years, historic preservationists are going to be fighting to save and restore the last of the historic indoor shopping centers, and lamenting the loss of those which were torn down.
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:13:22 AM
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
When we were kids, people still thought dinosaurs died off from a dry period.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 25, 2014, 03:56:39 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:13:22 AM
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
When we were kids, people still thought dinosaurs died off from a dry period.
From what I'm learning, it may have in fact been partly that. Not a dry period, per se, but the gradually drier conditions of the continents due to continental drift putting many species in a vulnerable position.
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on April 24, 2014, 06:07:50 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 24, 2014, 01:09:55 PM
Beautiful!
Why are there no squatters there?
Oh wait, your country isn't as densely populated as mine, nevermind.
We have POLICE FORCES to keep our homeless people OUTDOORS where they BELONG. :horrormirth:
We hardly have any indoor malls, I only know of one and that is integrated with a trainstation and built over and above many normal streets.
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:13:22 AM
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
Just think about what people will say about THIS era in 30 years. For me, that's where the real horror starts.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 25, 2014, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:13:22 AM
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
Just think about what people will say about THIS era in 30 years. For me, that's where the real horror starts.
I can't even imagine. The thing is, I used to LIKE trying to imagine what would be archaic, and I thought it would be cars, maybe, or freeways, or fillings. I never imagined that malls and telephones would get the chopping block.
Imagining what new discoveries science will find is literally unpredictable.
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:13:22 AM
We are actually old enough to have experienced a past which is laughably archaic. One of the interesting things about being in school so late in life is that I'm unlearning along with learning. "LOL YOU THOUGHT WHAT? NO THAT WAS DISPROVEN IN THE 90'S, OLD LADY!"
When I was a kid, we thought that other galaxies were nebulas within our galaxy.
I grew up in a little town that got movies at least a year after they came out, so it was really cheap to get in. I remember paying ten cents for a child's ticket. Compared to these times, I might as well have been a kid in the Great Depression.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 08:25:48 PM
It's a little weird because indoor malls were an absolutely integral part of my teenagerhood... seeing them relegated to the past is another little reminder that I am getting old, that my childhood was a long time ago, and that everything is transient.
This. It is bizarre, isn't it? I had to take a city bus to school, and it stopped the mall for an hour beforehand. We had this crazy comic book store called Reality Adventures with stand up virtual reality games. I'd buy orange soda pop at the walgreens across from that little outlet, and smoke weed with these older kids outside lol. I used to dress up in panties at the JCPenney's and admire myself from the fitting room mirror. This once, I forgot to take them off, and the buzzer caught me for shoplifting. I've been banned from JCPenney's ever since. Ah, nostalgia. :fap:
Quote from: Vaud on April 26, 2014, 08:31:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 08:25:48 PM
It's a little weird because indoor malls were an absolutely integral part of my teenagerhood... seeing them relegated to the past is another little reminder that I am getting old, that my childhood was a long time ago, and that everything is transient.
This. It is bizarre, isn't it? I had to take a city bus to school, and it stopped the mall for an hour beforehand. We had this crazy comic book store called Reality Adventures with stand up virtual reality games. I'd buy orange soda pop at the walgreens across from that little outlet, and smoke weed with these older kids outside lol. I used to dress up in panties at the JCPenney's and admire myself from the fitting room mirror. This once, I forgot to take them off, and the buzzer caught me for shoplifting. I've been banned from JCPenney's ever since. Ah, nostalgia. :fap:
The lunch counter at Woolworth's was still a thing, when I was a kid.
As hilariously old-fashioned as the stuff my dad used to tell me about his childhood sounded, ours now sounds
exactly that old-fashioned. :lol:
Quote from: Nigel on April 27, 2014, 01:50:38 AM
The lunch counter at Woolworth's was still a thing, when I was a kid.
As hilariously old-fashioned as the stuff my dad used to tell me about his childhood sounded, ours now sounds exactly that old-fashioned. :lol:
:lulz:
Shit, variety stores with soda counters.
Pay phones.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 27, 2014, 04:06:28 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 27, 2014, 01:50:38 AM
The lunch counter at Woolworth's was still a thing, when I was a kid.
As hilariously old-fashioned as the stuff my dad used to tell me about his childhood sounded, ours now sounds exactly that old-fashioned. :lol:
:lulz:
Shit, variety stores with soda counters.
Totally. We had this store called JJ. Newberry's, and they had a soda counter. I loved that place!
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 27, 2014, 10:49:33 PM
Pay phones.
There's a working phone booth at the parking lot on the corner of Interstate and Rosa Parks. I have pictures.