Hastings’s stores. They sold books, CDs, DVDs, tabletop game supplies, video games etc. It was always exciting to go and look even if my parents were not going to buy me anything.
the asha degree case is one that occupies my mind a lot. not necessarily super disturbing but if we have all the information then asha had very little reason to pick up and leave.
A roundabout in my home city was turned into an elevated 4-way intersection. It wasn’t an improvement. When I visualize the city I always see the roundabout. It was there all my life.
The mall I used to ride my bike to as a child, where my favorite Arcade (Aladdin's Castle) & had a toy store (K.B. Toys) was leveled to the ground about 20 years ago, with the exception of like two restaurants at the corner of the building.
It's now some fake ass 'downtown' like outdoor mall, in Michigan, with terrible parking & it's just gross.
I miss Meadowbrook Mall, man, I miss it a lot.
I was gonna say "The Arcade" but you made me remember the entire mall it resided in got blown up.
Town centers and outdoor outlet centers are just malls, but worse. No AC, fewer small businesses somehow, parking shoved in between the stores, and (in the town centers) half-assed (at best) mixed use.
For all of their many, many flaws, a lot of malls actually fell backwards into accidentally doing some interesting things in terms of being community spaces.
@weremacaque it sounds flippant but seriously: The USA. I find this current view of my home country to be unrecognizably insane...we played outside, we drank and smoked early and generally got along. I grew up in an integrated neighborhood, integrated public school...
Two big ones for me:
1- a local arcade. Spent so many summer days there with friends. TMNT, Street fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc etc etc.
2- laser quest! Lots of birthday parties there.
I don't know if there really is anymore. I started to notice Reddit was being gamed by bought posters.
Maybe something like signing up for Which.co.uk (apparently consumer reports in US) where you pay for impartial reviews. at least if you are the customer of which they may be more.impartial than internet sites where you are the product to me marketed to.
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