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Let's Go to the Mall

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Created December 05, 2022

Updated December 05, 2022

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  1. We start our conversation talking about The Center Mall, one of the first indoor malls in America. The Center Mall is unique to Omaha, but the concept of the American mall was blooming all over the US during the revolutionary decades of the 195
  2. What makes a place home? Is it a place that feels like a refuge? Is it somewhere you sleep really, really well? What if the place that feels like home is a secret apartment in the bowels of a giant mall?
  3. Retail was struggling. Then came the virus. Recode’s Jason Del Rey explains how the American mall will never be the same, and how the machines might save retail.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc
  4. The Macy's at Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia closed its doors for good a year ago. Then, the whole mall shut down. The empty department store become a homeless shelter. And a woman who once worked there, found herself sleeping there.See
  5. Every fall, with the same regularity as birds flying south, Spirit Halloween materializes in locations across the country. The superstore sells all manner of trappings for spooky season, including costumes, props and décor. It boasts about 1,40
  6. While this episode is focused on both Brookstone and The Sharper Image, we all know which one sold full-sized replicas of The Predator, so we're just gonna go ahead and call this The Sharper Image episode.This also happens to be the very last
  7. The idea of selling snacks and meals in shopping centers is far from new, but mall food courts keep reinventing themselves. Anney and Lauren explore how the food court as we know it was born -- and what's replacing it. Learn more about your ad
  8. Back in the early 1990s, movie theaters weren't that great. The auditoriums were cramped and narrow, and the screen was dim. But in 1995, the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas changed everything. It was the very first movie megaplex in the United States.
  9. What do we lose if we lose the mall? 70 years into their existence, these hulking temples to commerce are surprisingly resilient and filled with contradictions. In this episode, Alexandra Lange, the author of the new book Meet Me at the Fountai
  10. Roz Drezfalez (Ghosted! By Roz Drezfalez) joins Paige and Emily to talk about basically the most iconic mall store of all time, Hot Topic. We cover AC/DC t-shirts, Nightmare Before Christmas school dances, goth golf looks, skelanimals, jelly br
  11. Meet Cute Presents: Mall Brats - Part 1, where cash-strapped Maxine decides to turn a retail job in the mall into the journalistic expose of the century, only to be interrupted by...love?Story by Ashley Brooke Roberts. Produced & Directed by: A

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