Train rolls on
Jan. 21st, 2006 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaOur mall is dying.
Richardson Square Mall opened around 1978, anchored by the Sears store that had been on the corner of Belt Line and Plano for a while. We were so thrilled not to have to go all the way to NorthPark or Valley View for the mall stores. My boyfriend's younger sister got a job at the Card Cage, and she had to work until nine and close the store many nights. Her parents weren't thrilled, and she didn't have a car, so more than once he and I drove out there to pick her up. She had to make the deposit at the bank a few times, too (another job for which we all felt she was too young to have the responsibility, but she felt fine about it), and so we found ourselves driving to the tall bank tower (at that time, one of the three banks that was in town--now there are hundreds, it seems) and up to the night deposit window so she could stuff the zippered pouch full of cash into it. She got a discount on things b bought there, and I have always suspected that the huge haul of stuff I got that year at Christmas (stuffed animals, earrings, etc.) was gotten there.
I've spent many an hour wandering that mall. It's still a very nice building with good-looking bones. But Dillard's is empty, with signs in the windows saying the fixtures are for sale; Lane Bryant next door is also gone, with window signs announcing a store closing sale (how did I manage to MISS that? Because I, too, now go to the other mall to the north of us). Stores all down its three axes are closing. And the behemoth Barnes and Noble that took up an entire arm of the mall leading to Sears . . . is shuttered. Man, if *they* had a store closing sale that I missed . . . !!!
Well, there are other malls. I suppose they have to make a profit. Still, I'll be sorry to see the old girl go. Dallas is like a boyfriend who only dates you while you're new and shiny; the moment something else comes along, Dallas is enticed away, and soon you face the wrecking ball. What will happen to that neighborhood of stores? I suspect they'll sit empty, while development of new stores that are just like those old ones goes on to the north. *sigh* That's progress for you.
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"Tuesday's gone with the wind . . . train rolls on."
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I think I just heard a few drops of rain. Yeah!
Richardson Square Mall opened around 1978, anchored by the Sears store that had been on the corner of Belt Line and Plano for a while. We were so thrilled not to have to go all the way to NorthPark or Valley View for the mall stores. My boyfriend's younger sister got a job at the Card Cage, and she had to work until nine and close the store many nights. Her parents weren't thrilled, and she didn't have a car, so more than once he and I drove out there to pick her up. She had to make the deposit at the bank a few times, too (another job for which we all felt she was too young to have the responsibility, but she felt fine about it), and so we found ourselves driving to the tall bank tower (at that time, one of the three banks that was in town--now there are hundreds, it seems) and up to the night deposit window so she could stuff the zippered pouch full of cash into it. She got a discount on things b bought there, and I have always suspected that the huge haul of stuff I got that year at Christmas (stuffed animals, earrings, etc.) was gotten there.
I've spent many an hour wandering that mall. It's still a very nice building with good-looking bones. But Dillard's is empty, with signs in the windows saying the fixtures are for sale; Lane Bryant next door is also gone, with window signs announcing a store closing sale (how did I manage to MISS that? Because I, too, now go to the other mall to the north of us). Stores all down its three axes are closing. And the behemoth Barnes and Noble that took up an entire arm of the mall leading to Sears . . . is shuttered. Man, if *they* had a store closing sale that I missed . . . !!!
Well, there are other malls. I suppose they have to make a profit. Still, I'll be sorry to see the old girl go. Dallas is like a boyfriend who only dates you while you're new and shiny; the moment something else comes along, Dallas is enticed away, and soon you face the wrecking ball. What will happen to that neighborhood of stores? I suspect they'll sit empty, while development of new stores that are just like those old ones goes on to the north. *sigh* That's progress for you.
"Tuesday's gone with the wind . . . train rolls on."
I think I just heard a few drops of rain. Yeah!
