The early mauls, a lot of times, are really quite simple. With like one or two or three department stores. The food court doesn't actually become part of them all until the mid 19 seventies. Then in the 19 eighties, you begin to get the first wave of boredom with them mall. And that's when john jerdy comes in, this la. Architect, and he's like, ok, how can we get people to want to go to the mall again? I know, we'll put an amusement park in the middle of the mall. Once you put an amusementPark in themiddle of the mall, it gets expedential. But the entertainment idea does
No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the mall, not even author Alexandra Lange. In her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain, Lange writes about how malls were conceptually born out of a lack of space for people to convene in American suburbs. Despite the fact indoor shopping malls are no longer in their heyday, malls have not gone away completely. Lange writes about the history of mall culture, and how the mall became a ubiquitous part of American life.
Meet Us by the Fountain