― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
also, my complaint about the olympia mall is lodged deep in ilx's guts and it's employees and owners may long rot in hell
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)
right next to this is a brewpub which also serves excellent food. Malls in which you can smoke and drink = classic.
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)
This is the entrance to the movie theater. This picture doesn't do it justice at all. It's 24 screens and none of them are small. The joint is fucking HUGE.
Sometime this fall they're opening a Medieval Times here, too
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)
Everyone bugged by malls should GO NOW and read Edge City by Joel Garreau. I bought mine in a bookstore in Southdale, which is in this posh suburb of Minneapolis called Edina (we hate Edina, right Matos?) and is basically the first atrium mall, so the irony of the purchase was perfect (also was doing a story on the Mall of America for a British newspaper). My mum and aunt used to work at the 'sidewalk cafe' there when it opened in 1956 or whatever (possibly the world's first postmodern jobs, narrowly defeating any Disney option by a year or two).
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/dixie_square_mall/dixie_sq_12.jpg
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Last weekend however we went to go see POTC and the guy sitting next to my pal reeked even more than we did. He smelled like a fucking distillery, I kid you not. But we're not going to let him stop us. Oh no. Walking around the mall on a Saturday looking and smelling like scary poor people = somehow lots of fun.
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Octothorpe, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.arundelmillsmall.com/index2.html
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― fletrejet, Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.deadmalls.com/
Nothing I would want to buy in a mall that I couldn't buy elsewhere cheaper.
― fletrejet, Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
brent cross
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)
http://aol.globexplorer.com/gexservlets/gex?encrypt=aGU8MzExMTExMDIxMCdtcjwwJ2JsZTxpbGBxJ3l0bTwsNjcvNjM5NjExMTExMTExMTEyJ3h0bTwyOC8wNzE1ODg4ODg4ODg4ODgneW1zPCw2Ny82MzE3ODg4ODg4ODg4ODUneG1zPDI4LzA0NTk4ODg4ODg4ODg4OSdodjwyNDcnaGk8MjE4J3VyPDAxNDgxNTE3NjAxMTE=
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)
Big fucker innit?
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― David_X (David_X), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)
i hate malls cause there are way too may smells going on at once. ugh
― kephm, Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)
I absolutely adore the MoA solely because it has a roller coaster.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Wow, as I was looking at the website for my favorite mall, I learned some factoids about Denver! Apparently Denver is the most educated metropolitan city in America, with more college graduates per capita, yadda yadda. After that, though, it says "Smart people shop smart.." pffft.
― Mandee, Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)
The National Mall, Washington, DC. Possibly the only mall in North America without a Gap.
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)
I dated a girl from Edina once, whoops.
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
My uncle married a woman from Edina. She is probably the preppiest woman in Minnesota.
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)
(My cousin is from Wayzata, eek. He's a white-blond broadcast journalism grad from UC Boulder and was a big Phish-head, but looks like what would happen if Mark Ibold was 6'4")
Umm, Dan, I've gotta ask, what was the deal with these girls?
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)
BAH. Well, metropolitan maybe. It's funny how smart people follow government contracting work though innit? My hometown of Huntsville AL actually has the highest per capita Ph.D ratio of any place in America - it's all engineers and rocket scientists. Yes, AL is short for Alabama. The most common surname in my HS graduating class was Patel and I DID NOT MAKE THAT UP.
Okay that had nothing to do with malls. Sorry.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
us NoVa/DC metro kids always thought we were overly innundated. If the Arundell MD mall has become as big as Millar's post indicates I believe the DC metropolitan area is still fighting for the role of way too many big malls in a small area. part of what drove me away from the region.
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Edina-girl was drop-dead gorgeous and ultra-super sweet. Nothing happened because I had no reliable transportation to go see her and because I was too chickenshit to ask her out.
Wayzata-girl was drop-dead gorgeous and bitchy beyond all comic belief. Nothing happened because she was gaga over another guy (we all met at All-State Choir), but we did hang out and have comic misadventures that I can't remember.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)
honestly though, malls in this area are where half the commerce goes on. I live 10 minutes away from Arundel in one direction and the Columbia mall (no small fry) in the other, and BOTH are completely packed to the gills every weekend.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
As I find that kind of fear hard to believe, you must have been 12.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/announce/nhtsanow/v5.4/Mall.jpg
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.arlingtonvirginia.com/gif/pentagon.jpg
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.ylekot.com/images/pictures/va/va-267_tysons_corners.jpg
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.urbanretail.com/newurp.nsf/7baaf9f4840230f68625699200760d59/0ba2d92acb62492888256c2f00562734/$FILE/Georgetown%20Park%2001%20hrlcp.jpg
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
and Tysons IIhttp://gosnell.com/int_gateway/gateway_media/gateway_gallery/gallery_pic_tysons1.jpg
― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
Anyone been to Westfield in London's busy Shepherds Bush/White City area yet?
I'm curious to have a look round it and would have done last weekend had I not had a stinking cold, had it not been pissing down like Jericho and had Chelsea not being stuffing Sunderland 5-0 up the road from me.
Is it any good (in particular are the restaurants/cafes any good) or is it just Brent Cross South/Gatwick Village North and liable to give me a headache?
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 08:37 (seventeen years ago)
Haven't actually been (and probably won't as I hate shopping centres), but the consensus seems to be:
- It is very large - It is a shopping centre, a bit like most of the others, but bigger - There aren't enough places to eat - It is very very crowded
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:42 (seventeen years ago)
also: (not been)
That there is not much car parking to promote use of public transport, but generally people *like* to use their own cars to go, buy stuff, put it into car rather than go, buy stuff, lug it home on the underground etc.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:48 (seventeen years ago)
Plenty of bus and tube links at Westfield (when the tube's working) so really it's the culture that has to change.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:57 (seventeen years ago)
I can understand why people would want cars to get to and from places like Brent Cross or Bluewater (which are both essentially plonked in the middle of nowhere) but Westfield's in town!
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:59 (seventeen years ago)
true.
Will have to check it out. There's plenty of 'friendly' parking streets around South Ealing. Or there were. No doubt they're all parkingnazi'd by now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)
i have been. i can confirm it is a shopping centre. it is large and shiny.
> There aren't enough places to eat
there are 47 restaurants ffs. one of them is probably the world's largest, poshest, nandos.
> there is not much car parking
their website says:"Our advanced car parking facility has 4,500 spaces"
which doesn't really help when 500,000 people turn up over the first 4 days but...
> Plenty of bus and tube links at Westfield
including a brand new wood lane which is just next door. shepherds bush market tube station (as it is now) is almost as close. 3 minutes from each, if that. then 15 minutes to get to the shop you want.
luckily, for me, the nearest corner of the vastness to my flat is where the bookshop is...
― koogs, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
i love malls but i need an exit strategy, ya know?
― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Thursday, 6 November 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)
I went to Westfield last week! I saw Thomas Lau from the Halifax adverts.I bought a jumper in Uni-Qlo. I almost bought some trainers in the Vans shop, but I didn't.
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)
Here are some pictures:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4301503.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4301506.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4301495.jpg
I mainly liked the ceiling!
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)
Whoops, bit big!
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042
What if you built the world's largest mall and nobody showed up?
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)