Dead malls

During the 1960s and 1970s, retail trends sent the number of malls in the U.S. skyrocketing. Anchored by major department stores like J.C. Penney and Sears, these vast enclosed shopping centers sprang up in suburbs across the country, with 30,000 malls accounting for half the retail dollars spent in 1975. Mall construction continued through the

I would guess a dead mall in Florida, picture complementary electric-blue neon accents.

While they may look like scenes from a post-apocalyptic zombie movie - the building is in fact located in Akron, Ohio, and has simply been left to decay since it was abandoned in 2008.

These forgotten about buildings are hauntingly beautiful.

Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio was once a gleaming modern retail space bustling with life. Few would have foreseen the desolate symbol of urban decay it would become only a few decades after it opened.

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The mall, anchored by Miller & Rhodes and Thalhimer's, opened to great fanfare in 1985, but struggled after its two anchor stores closed. The iconic bridge over Broad Street was

Collapse of America's Shopping Mall - Democratic Underground