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Eddie Bauer will close its remaining stores

Wild fact: Our mall in Toledo had a Picasso and a Calder sculpture in the one of the sky cubes. 🤯 Before my time, but amazed there was never even a mention of it anywhere!

Jake and Elwood survived a rocket-launcher attack just beyond the hanging sign that says 'Fashion'.

This was once our office location! #VitalPointstherapy The circular doorway reminded us of traditional Chinese architecture elements! It has a wide open interior space where we were able to utilize #OccupationalTherapy tools for our patients. :)

Penney's plundered playland JCPenney, Beaver Valley Mall - Monaca, Pennsylvania #deadmalls #jcpenney #mall #retail #storeclosing #PA #photography

Continuing their touch-and-go relationship with physical retail, Amazon is axing all of their "Fresh" grocery stores and "Go" convenience stores, closing by the end of the week. (except in California, where they'll be kept open another 45 days due to labor laws) www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-...

"Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there" Beaver Valley Mall - Monaca, Pennsylvania #deadmalls #mall #fountain #retail #foodcourt #PA #photography

As a platform already based entirely on the concept of copyright infringement, this makes it 10x worse.

The irony of sitting through workplace data privacy training while TV's in the break room display AI slop of coworkers' faces slapped on historical figures, movie characters and the like without consent...

Target has acquired and filed permits to demolish the long-abandoned Super Kmart in Round Lake Beach

Little experiment I'm buttoning up: an Android-based, 1986 Panasonic Omnimovie tapeless conversion with all the dongles and wires tucked neatly inside the cassette housing. Beyond two Dremel notches in a removable side panel to allow cable passage, no modifications were made to the camera.

Half Price Books, overprice everything else

ok

these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Retrospekt has really fallen off if this is what passes for "refurbished", nowadays

Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long. We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:

The streets of Minneapolis were filled with the voices of resistance. 50,000 plus I'm -15° weather to stand against the terror of ICE In their communities.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

This week, as it must to all malls, death comes to San Francisco Centre. sfist.com/2026/01/20/b...

It's a special Cinema's 60th today!

1988 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with C4 salad shooters. Owner wasn't far behind, says it's been garage kept with 84k miles. I hope he gets it out of the salt. #weirdcarbs

Charmera thread...

Market Street, Steubenville, Ohio #photography

Thom McAn - Steubenville, Ohio #photography

Bad for health Weirton, West Virginia #photography

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Any architecture friends familiar with an "Architectonics, Inc." that would've been active in the mid-1970s? I've found Tribune articles attributing the firm to designing both Northbrook Court and Louis Joliet Mall, but little else beyond false-positives.

Sun dog this morning

Look for the helpers

I think we can all root for this.

bomber gas, route 99 e., milwaukie, oregon, 1980

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Now it's time to say good-bye to all our company... 🎶 M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E 🎶 Disney Store, Stratford Square - Bloomingdale, Illinois #deadmalls #retail #disneystore #architecture #mediumformat #photography

shitter’s full again

Largely unchanged in aesthetics since opening in 1990, Lincolnwood Town Center was the result of a compromise between the village of Lincolnwood and developer, Melvin Simon & Associates - who had originally proposed a mall twice as big. Lincolnwood, Illinois #deadmalls #mall #retail #photography

Largely unchanged in aesthetics since opening in 1990, Lincolnwood Town Center was the result of a compromise between the village of Lincolnwood and developer, Melvin Simon & Associates - who had originally proposed a mall twice as big. Lincolnwood, Illinois #deadmalls #mall #retail #photography

There's a weird corner of nostalgia YouTube that foams over every single Sears and Kmart store closing, and even weirder attracts an audience much too young to have any nostalgia for either store. Those kids are now reaching adulthood.

In 2024 the RoomPlace filed for bankruptcy and liquidated its 27 stores. Just as quickly, however: four stores reopened with minimal fanfare last summer, and under RoomPlace's original "Harlem Furniture" name that had been retired in the late-aughts. Within months, they all closed again.

"I feel the need... the need for a tetanus shot" Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina #deadmalls #belk #mall #retail #NC #photography

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Holler House, a Milwaukee tavern, has the oldest sanctioned bowling alley in the U.S., dating back to 1908. They still use pinsetters!

photo bus, hamilton avenue, columbus, ohio, 1980

A 900-guest fundraiser for Ravinia Festival opened Chicago's second I.Magnin, here, in 1979. The store closed in '91 after Macy's bought Magnin and exited the market; a 14-screen General Cinema was built in its place. Northbrook Court - Northbrook, Illinois #deadmalls #mall #retail #IL #photography

A: We need to stop killing legit third spaces for young adults and B: the old guard needs to seriously school the broccoli kids on urban exploring so they stop blowing spots up hotter than 100 suns in the span of less than a week.

"Everybody remember, we're parked under the Sunsphere" The voyage home - August 2025