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Hi! This is a blog about malls. I don’t have the skills or equipment or the nerve to film in public required to make dead mall videos, so a blog is the best I can do.
I first became interested in dead malls and malls in general around 2004-ish, when the browser extension StumbleUpon (remember that?) sent me to DeadMalls.com and down the rabbit hole that is the Dixie Square Mall. I wrote the DeadMalls.com article about the Station Mall around this time (it’s mostly accurate up to that point lol). I started photographing malls in 2008, which was the same year I joined Flickr. I joined Instagram a couple of years after that, but I didn’t start posting mall content regularly until 2021 or so.
This blog is mostly here because I like to research and write, and I thought someone else might find this stuff interesting. I have degrees in writing and library science, and this blog will probably be as close as I ever come to becoming the archivist I wanted to be when I grew up. 😛
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About photos: Any newspaper photos or other copyrighted materials are presented here for educational purposes and covered under free use. I have attempted to credit photographers or sources for photos found online. If I have inadvertently used your photo or other materials here, please contact me so I can either credit you or remove it.
I have had my own writings and photographs (not mall stuff) stolen and even published without credit multiple times in the past, so I know how shitty it is. That said, please do not post my content elsewhere online without either asking beforehand or linking to this blog or my social media. Thanks!!