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Let's Go to the Mall
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- Nov 1st, 2019We start our conversation talking about The Center Mall, one of the first indoor malls in America. The Center Mall is unique to Omaha, but the concept of the American mall was blooming all over the US during the revolutionary decades of the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s. As the birth of the mall coincided with the beginning o...
- Dec 11th, 2018What makes a place home? Is it a place that feels like a refuge? Is it somewhere you sleep really, really well? What if the place that feels like home is a secret apartment in the bowels of a giant mall?
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SocietyCulturePersonal Journals - Nov 20th, 2020Retail was struggling. Then came the virus. Recode’s Jason Del Rey explains how the American mall will never be the same, and how the machines might save retail.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Sep 26th, 2018The Macy's at Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia closed its doors for good a year ago. Then, the whole mall shut down. The empty department store become a homeless shelter. And a woman who once worked there, found herself sleeping there.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
- Oct 25th, 2022Every fall, with the same regularity as birds flying south, Spirit Halloween materializes in locations across the country. The superstore sells all manner of trappings for spooky season, including costumes, props and décor. It boasts about 1,400 pop-ups nationwide, and often takes over temporary leases in malls where a...
- Aug 27th, 2018While this episode is focused on both Brookstone and The Sharper Image, we all know which one sold full-sized replicas of The Predator, so we're just gonna go ahead and call this The Sharper Image episode.This also happens to be the very last episode of the first season of The History of Fun. But worry not! We'll be ...
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HobbiesVideo GamesTv - Jul 6th, 2019The idea of selling snacks and meals in shopping centers is far from new, but mall food courts keep reinventing themselves. Anney and Lauren explore how the food court as we know it was born -- and what's replacing it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener ...
- Mar 16th, 2021Back in the early 1990s, movie theaters weren't that great. The auditoriums were cramped and narrow, and the screen was dim. But in 1995, the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas changed everything. It was the very first movie megaplex in the United States. This is the gigantic, neon, big-box store of moviegoing that we're all used ...
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- Jul 26th, 2022What do we lose if we lose the mall? 70 years into their existence, these hulking temples to commerce are surprisingly resilient and filled with contradictions. In this episode, Alexandra Lange, the author of the new book Meet Me at the Fountain: an Inside History of the Mall walks us through the atriums, escalators, a...
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- Jul 1st, 2020Roz Drezfalez (Ghosted! By Roz Drezfalez) joins Paige and Emily to talk about basically the most iconic mall store of all time, Hot Topic. We cover AC/DC t-shirts, Nightmare Before Christmas school dances, goth golf looks, skelanimals, jelly bracelets, the Osbournes and so much more. We also find out who our emo boyfri...
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Comedy - Sep 1st, 2022Meet Cute Presents: Mall Brats - Part 1, where cash-strapped Maxine decides to turn a retail job in the mall into the journalistic expose of the century, only to be interrupted by...love?Story by Ashley Brooke Roberts. Produced & Directed by: Ashley Eskew. Sound Design: Ashley Eskew. Sound Editing & Mixing: Ryan Burkha...
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