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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by davysnavy@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

Come join us and be sure to post a picture of your favorite dead mall! Hope to see you there!
!deadmalls@lemmy.fmhy.ml
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/deadmalls

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[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not sure I'd want to subscribe to that. It seems depressing. Lol

[-] davysnavy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Lol fair. For me, the melancholy and sadness is part of the appeal. I kinda enjoy those feelings of sad nostalgia. I also like to be able to appreciate these beautiful, massive buildings before they get torn down or replaced with something else.

[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just makes me miss the malls, as a 90's kid. Lol

[-] ScOULaris@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nah. It's morbidly interesting IMO.

[-] the_medium_kahuna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I love dead and abandoned malls, and other liminal spaces. they’re like the bones of a crumbling empire

[-] ScOULaris@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

An empire that we lived in and got to experience when it was thriving. That's why dead malls in particular have a distinctly bittersweet feeling to them. Those of us who frequented malls in the 80's and 90's can vividly remember when they were filled with people, commerce, and social activity. They were such lively social spaces back then, so seeing them slowly succumb to the ravages of time and fade into irrelevancy is both sad and fascinating.

[-] the_medium_kahuna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i was born in the mid-90s, so i only have vague memories of a lively mall. but i remember playing on the indoor playground, eating teriyaki chicken samples, and even trick or treating at the mall once as a kid. now there have been multiple shootings there in the past few years

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Dead malls have big backrooms vibes

[-] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It is and it isn't. I find the decline of malls and their abandonment absolutely fascinating. Relics of their time before online shopping. From behemoths of capitalism to shells of their former selves. Hell anything abandoned is kind of cool. But malls kinda hit different.

[-] SeatBeeSate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I want to upload a full video I have of Cincinnati mall. Huge abandoned mall, but as of this year is permanently boarded ready to be torn down. Although it has me and my close ones faces which I don't want to include.

[-] davysnavy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. That's a legendary dead mall. It's a shame it got boarded up

[-] fugepe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

thats cool. These guys also do that, their east asian countries exploration is captivating. https://urbex.net.pl/countries/abandoned-japan/

this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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