by Clipper cat » Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:57 am
I'm old enough to remember the Mall's dedication "ceremony". My mom and I were regular Saturday shoppers on Fulton, and rode the little jitneys (NOT Trollies, as I recall) once the renovation was completed. By the mid-1970s the mall had lost its luster. Once during the 1990s I attended a job-related conference in Frez. During the noon break I conned a co-worker into visiting the mall. It was scary bad--mostly closed storefronts and jerry-rigged food stands, the once vaunted art work dirty, damaged, and uncared for. Not a single one of my favorite stores (Rodders, Berkeleys, Luftenbergs Fabrics, Coopers, Kays ,Gottschalks, and more) had survived. The inevitable death of mall-shopping had taken its toll.
I'm old enough to remember the Mall's dedication "ceremony". My mom and I were regular Saturday shoppers on Fulton, and rode the little jitneys (NOT Trollies, as I recall) once the renovation was completed. By the mid-1970s the mall had lost its luster. Once during the 1990s I attended a job-related conference in Frez. During the noon break I conned a co-worker into visiting the mall. It was scary bad--mostly closed storefronts and jerry-rigged food stands, the once vaunted art work dirty, damaged, and uncared for. Not a single one of my favorite stores (Rodders, Berkeleys, Luftenbergs Fabrics, Coopers, Kays ,Gottschalks, and more) had survived. The inevitable death of mall-shopping had taken its toll.