Show Notes Episode 352: The Malls Are All Empty Now

This week Host Dave Bledsoe has his Mom and Dad drop him off at the mall, and then runs across the parking lot to get drunk in the Applebees. (Dave: still disappointing his parents at 52!) On the show this week, we put on our parachute pants, zip up our Members Only Jacket and head down to the Food Court at our local mall! (We will be sitting with the cool kids!)

Along the way we discover that Dave’s granny loved him the best. (Which is probably why he is such a spoiled little bitch now.) Then we dive right into the history of and different types of shopping malls around America. (With more information than you ever wanted or needed.) Then we slip through the time portal that is The Mall to revisit all the shops you could never afford to buy anything from when you were a kid. Before we leave, we have to stop at Spencer’s Gifts for some fake poop.

Our Sponsor this week is The Creepy Guy at the Food Court, we don’t know who or what he is, we only know that he exists. We open the show with True Stories and close with Mojo Nixon who has a suggestion for what to do with all these empty malls.

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Citations Needed:

mall hall of fame

http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

When Malls Saved the Suburbs From Despair

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/when-malls-saved-cities-from-capitalism/553610/

This Is CorpGoth Chronicles of an everyday goth gal at the office.

http://corpgoth.blogspot.com/2014/11/clothing-stores-ive-loved-and-lost.html

Let's reminisce about Spencer Gifts in the 80s.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-reminisce-about-spencer-gifts-in-the-80s/702669

Sex toys on display at Spencer's?

https://www.kplctv.com/story/14176462/sex-toys-on-display-at-spencers/

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://medium.com/@simonepolgar/mallstalgia-escaping-into-a-collection-of-found-photos-of-1980s-malls-14420ec0f60b

https://www.pennlive.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/08/926e2ac5fd7780/mall-stores-of-the-80s-and-90s.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/115485/michael-galinskys-retro-photos-1980s-shopping-malls-are-like-totally-rad

https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/retail/#the-history-and-evolution-of-retail-stores

https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/7196/volumes/v18/NA-187C#:~:text=The%20first%20enclosed%20mall%20was,suburb%20of%20Minneapolis%20in%201956.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/when-malls-saved-cities-from-capitalism/553610/

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-mall-2020-7

https://www.liherald.com/stories/elegy-for-sears-and-perhaps-mall-culture,135410

https://www.crfashionbook.com/culture/a33405314/shopping-mall-history-southdale-mall-of-america/

https://www.retaildive.com/news/skud-7-pop-culture-moments-that-track-the-downfall-of-the-mall/584317/

https://www.ajc.com/life/opinion-mall-culture-and-teens-already-a-strained-relationship-before-lenox-curfew/WKIUVN5IUFEITNVPM2DRA7XHOA/

https://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-wwd-mall-fell-out-of-fashion-20171229-story.html

https://cuepointaesthetics.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/mall-city-documentary-1983-nyu-film-roosevelt-field-mall-culture/

https://www.ejournals.eu/pliki/art/1603/pl

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/death-and-rebirth-american-mall-180953444/

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