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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-02-21 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #3336 ]


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Re: Favorite Stores in the Mall

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
These days I prefer just lots of walking space to walk around, not necessarily for a destination store.

Though last year when I went to Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati, OH, on the way back I stopped at this mall. Well it said it was a mall, Google has it labeled "Forest Fair Village".

This is a huge two story building, you could walk miles inside and get a great walking work out in. It has a couple of anchor stores, Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops and Babies R Us on the 2nd floor. The thing is that the place is 95% EMPTY. Empty store fronts, maybe just a few educational spots open, a 24 hour fitness center on one corner, a huge food court with only two operating food stalls.

That was it! Creepy as all get out. And I went the day after Thanksgiving and they actually had a Santa Claus! A lonely Santa without any elves and he would wave to you as you walked by. I saw one family stop and chat but I guess if they wanted pictures it would be with their own cell phone.

It was weird.
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Re: Favorite Stores in the Mall

[personal profile] badass_tiger 2016-02-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw man, empty shopping malls. When I was a kid, there was this one shopping mall that was newly opened and didn't have a lot of shops in it yet, but we went there often because my brother's optician worked there. I hated going in there because they put horror movie posters in all the empty lots and it scared me so much that I sometimes tried to get my mum to leave me in the car when she went in. It was the creepiest thing in the world, all those horrific cutouts in dark, empty lots ;~;
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Re: Favorite Stores in the Mall

[personal profile] dani_phantasma 2016-02-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be very creepy. Also pretty depressing if you ask me, thinking about all of what might have been there that isn't anymore.

Although lately I have been looking at pictures of abandoned malls, and they're both creepy and fascinating.

Re: Favorite Stores in the Mall

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Jungle Jim's rocks. I wish I lived closer to it, it's my favorite grocery store.

Oh! I know the place you mean, it's the old Cincinnati Mills shopping mall. I didn't realize it was still open because that place has been a ghost town for years. I agree, great place for walking, though.

Re: Favorite Stores in the Mall

(Anonymous) 2016-02-22 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, Forest Fair. I remember when that mall opened and it was such a big thing, so many different stores and there was the whole 'time out on the Court' setup with the ferris wheel and everything. We used to go to Biggs all the time and there was a Little Professor bookstore that I loved because I found multiple books there I hadn't seen at other stores. Then they tried to revitalize it as Cincinnati Mills but it was so clearly doomed (I remember walking through it shortly after the remodel with my mom and commenting how most of their stores were either usual stuff you could find at Tri County or random little stores that were never going to bring that much business).