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Best luck with that. Hope it's soon.I am inspired to take photos on my travels in south western Ontario, all sorts of ghost signs everywhere.
When I am "allowed" travel again, of course!
I find it somewhat amusing that, in the history of shopping, the shopping mall was a small, multi-decade blip on our cultural radar. For all intents and purposes, the shopping mall was a 20th century fad that started in the 1920s, and all but died by the 2020s. The era of the shopping mall barely lasted a hundred years.The first mall in our area was the Salem Mall. Two retailers, Sears and Rike's (local) were already on a plot of land north of town, separated by some acreage. The two buildings were connected by the remainder of the mall, and a third anchor, a Liberal grocery store, was added. Several years ago the mall went belly up and was torn down, with only the Sears remaining. It's gone now, as well.
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^ Boy, that graffiti on the window on the left is proof that not everyone is going to be the next Banksy. I think the "artist" was trying to paint "Bone Head", but he/she tried to get too clever and it looks more like "Bile Head", which makes no sense to me.
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Cabool, Missouri. This was just uncovered. I can find newspaper ads for the store from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Not sure when it closed — the owner died in 2004 at age 99.
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