- A sanctioned place to hang out with friends outside of school
- A predecessor to online shopping. If you buy it online today, and you can't get it from Target/Walmart/Etc, chances are you would have gone to a mall back then.
- Lots and lots of different clothes stores. The HN crowd probably doesn't care for this much, but other people liked that part a lot!
- Bustling and full of people. This has its downsides to be sure, but it can be nice to be around other people, and they didn't feel like the ghost towns they do today.
When malls were in their heyday when I was growing up, there was no Target or Walmart. At least not anywhere close to where I lived.
>A sanctioned place to hang out with friends outside of school
Malls now are starting to outright not let kids in unless they are accompanied by an adult. I am dead serious, I got carded entering a mall in 2008 and was told the policy is nobody under 18 unless accompanied by an adult. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shopping-malls-increasingly-p...
Yeah, I couldn't remember exactly what was around, when. But I meant warehouse stores and the like. Home Depot, perhaps? Or in my case, Orchard Supply. Which really shows you the Valley's origins.
- A sanctioned place to hang out with friends outside of school
- A predecessor to online shopping. If you buy it online today, and you can't get it from Target/Walmart/Etc, chances are you would have gone to a mall back then.
- Lots and lots of different clothes stores. The HN crowd probably doesn't care for this much, but other people liked that part a lot!
- Bustling and full of people. This has its downsides to be sure, but it can be nice to be around other people, and they didn't feel like the ghost towns they do today.