Swing coats, leather ties and Zubaz. Malls used to have it all.

Inside Golden Triangle Mall Denton Texas ca. 1980

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The Findlay Village Mall opened in 1962 with a JCPenney and Britt's discount store as anchors. Sears built a store in 1963. In the late 1980s the mall underwent a major renovation that involved adding a new wing with an Elder-Beerman store and reusing the old Britt's store as a Kmart. In 2003 the mall lost Kmart (now Best Buy, Dunham's, and T.J.Maxx)and Sears closed in March 2014. Currently many sections of the mall have a notable amount of vacancies. Findlay Village Mall - Tiffin Avenue - Findlay, Ohio

The Findlay Village Mall opened in 1962 with a JCPenney and Britt's discount store as anchors. Sears built a store in 1963. In the late 1980s the mall underwent a major renovation that involved adding a new wing with an Elder-Beerman store and reusing the old Britt's store as a Kmart. In 2003 the mall lost Kmart (now Best Buy, Dunham's, and T.J.Maxx)and Sears closed in March 2014. Currently many sections of the mall have a notable amount of vacancies. Findlay Village Mall - Tiffin Avenue - Findlay, Ohio

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This is Charlestowne Mall in Saint Charles, Illinois. Shot 05/14/17.I decided to take a trip to probably one of if not the deadest mall in the Chicago Land a...

Metcalf South Shopping Center opened in 1967, and was one of the most popular malls in the Kansas City area. When we lived in Overland Park in the mid-1970s this place was hopping. My sister worked at the Woolworth's. It began to die in the 1980s after the Oak Park Mall opened up 3 miles away. Today it is probably one of the cleanest dead malls out there. The fountains all work except for one. My oldest son compared it to scenes from the recent movie "I Am Legend". Both he and my youngest were a bit freaked out by it.

Randall's Park Mall - Ohio

In one of my inaugural posts about the Billerica Mall, I noted that it was one of four malls around the Boston area constructed with the same basic design. Mystic Mall is another, and it's in the process of being torn down. Before I wax poetic about the ol' Mystic Mall, let me add a

I took this picture yesterday at Vallco mall in Cupertino, Ca. Nice, quiet mall!

There is pretty much nothing to be found out out there on the internet about North Kent Mall so I thought it was cool that my previous post ...

Machines will chew through 20,000 square feet of building each day, tearing down most of the mall - and preparing the site for an industrial park project - over three months.

On a Friday at noon, the once great shopping complex, where scenes from the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure were shot, was a virtual ghost town.

In the spirit of reminiscing, we've collected 50 photos of some of the most memorable mall stores from the heyday of shopping centers in the 60s, 70s and 80s.