God I Miss The F$^*()##! Shopping Mall...

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05-14-20, 10:03
Arik

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Originally Posted by Phillygunguy

The mall that's about 5 minutes away from me has been dying a slow death. It's sad that while they didn't have the best stores they were convenient. Now they mostly have kiosks, a place that sells CBD products, a nail salon and Boscovs plus a food court. But I agree it's frustrating. I bought scrubs online and the damn pants are a little long and it took 2 weeks for them to send it to me. And now I'm like F it I'll wear them cause I need them. I do enjoy buying things from Brownells on line though. But for everything else it sucks

So "The Mills" is dying? Haven't been there in years. Used to work there a long time ago
05-14-20, 10:12
chadbag

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Originally Posted by SteyrAUG

I don't even think they read what I wrote. They sent me a replacement and had me print out a label. I have to send the vinegar mat back so I won't pay for the replacement.

Did you do it through one of their chats with "support"? Always do it live. I don't think I've ever sent back something Amazon shipped me that arrived damaged or not correct. But I always go through the online chat support.
05-14-20, 10:24
Phillygunguy

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Originally Posted by Arik

So "The Mills" is dying? Haven't been there in years. Used to work there a long time ago

No I'm talking about Exton. I haven't been to the mills in a while.
KOP is the only place that has been active, at least before covid
05-14-20, 10:53
The_War_Wagon

This is why I like the Equipment Exchange. Maybe it didn't work for that guy, but at least I'm pretty sure of what I'm getting!
05-14-20, 16:18
sgtrock82

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Originally Posted by Phillygunguy

No I'm talking about Exton. I haven't been to the mills in a while.
KOP is the only place that has been active, at least before covid

I remember all the big deal made about franklin mills when it first opened. It was quite a wonderland with indoor laser tag and other ambitious stuff but it seemed to be in a steady state of decline from the moment it opened. I use to live to go to the I.Goldbergs surplus store they had in there. It was right after the iron curtain fell and all the Eastern block stuff I only saw in grainy photos from Ian Hogg books was right there, in my size!...(not quite)

Most of my mall memories were from Montgomery Mall, havent been in there in years. It was so cool in the 80s with indoor trees, fountains and giant eagle scupltures and the giant central spiral ramp between the 2 floors.

While the others malls started to see decline in the 90s, KOP said "hold my beer!" ... and doubled itself in size and still some how manages to remain afloat. I haven't been there in ages either but I cant imagine it stumbling much just yet.

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05-14-20, 22:40
OH58D

For those of you in Pennsylvania, wasn't the 1978 George Romero film "Dawn of the Dead" filmed at some mall in your State? You know where they fly the helicopter to some mall and turn it into a fortress/refuge.
05-14-20, 22:42
Diamondback

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Originally Posted by OH58D

For those of you in Pennsylvania, wasn't the 1978 George Romero film "Dawn of the Dead" filmed at some mall in your State? You know where they fly the helicopter to some mall and turn it into a fortress/refuge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville_Mall
05-15-20, 00:41
SteyrAUG

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Originally Posted by OH58D

For those of you in Pennsylvania, wasn't the 1978 George Romero film "Dawn of the Dead" filmed at some mall in your State? You know where they fly the helicopter to some mall and turn it into a fortress/refuge.

Much as I loved that film as a kid, I realized later as an adult that Romero was basically calling us all mindless zombies because we shopped at the mall. Somebody should have made a film where all the zombies sit in a theater and watch B movies before Romero died.

While he single handedly relaunched the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead, he simply wasn't able to keep his politics out of his films, which made them suck. Everything was a commentary on the war, established society or consumerism. Never mind that consumerism is what allowed him to churn out his crappy movies which mostly sucked.

While some were great fun, most were stupid. Season of the Witch, The Crazies, The Amusement Park, Knightriders, Monkey Shines and every single film that came after the 80s were incredible stinkers. His tv show "Tales from the Darkside" which was a z budget ripoff of the Twilight Zone concept was actually better than most of his films and it was pretty bad sometimes. He also did a fanboy documentary on OJ Simpson in 1974 "O. J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose" which shows how bad his judgement really is or maybe he realized even then OJ was a POS just like Romero.

Besides the Night of the Living Dead trilogy, the only other Romero film that is interesting at all is Martin (1978) about a child vampire who may or may not actually be a vampire. But in Romero tradition, he started with an interesting idea and mostly just made a really weird movie that mostly came from being on drugs or required you to be on drugs to understand it. Other than that only Creepshow 1 & 2 didn't suck but that was built on the writing of Stephen King more than the direction or Romero.
05-15-20, 00:50
Diamondback

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Originally Posted by SteyrAUG

Much as I loved that film as a kid, I realized later as an adult that Romero was basically calling us all mindless zombies because we shopped at the mall. Somebody should have made a film where all the zombies sit in a theater and watch B movies before Romero died.

While he single handedly relaunched the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead, he simply wasn't able to keep his politics out of his films, which made them suck. Everything was a commentary on the war, established society or consumerism. Never mind that consumerism is what allowed him to churn out his crappy movies which mostly sucked.

I dunno, the brain-eating zombies turned out to be a pretty apt parallel to the Night of the Living Brain-Dead in November 2008, with the various kinds of Gimmiedats who make up the Dems' Free Shit Army... not high art, not great entertainment, but more like an unintended, ironic training film.
05-15-20, 01:53
SteyrAUG

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Originally Posted by Diamondback

I dunno, the brain-eating zombies turned out to be a pretty apt parallel to the Night of the Living Brain-Dead in November 2008, with the various kinds of Gimmiedats who make up the Dems' Free Shit Army... not high art, not great entertainment, but more like an unintended, ironic training film.

Pretty sure Romero was a Lt. Colonel in the FSA of 2008.

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