aside from style silliness, i like how nothing fits

2/20/2012 2:51:27 PM

damn Zales, how about an image update? it's been 20 years

2/20/2012 2:59:14 PM

It's funny to me that I didn't see a single obese person in those pics, and they fucking run the place now

2/20/2012 3:00:18 PM

Always check the food court for fat people.



[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 3:04 PM. Reason : d]

2/20/2012 3:04:45 PM

2/20/2012 3:10:50 PM

OMG SO FUNNY HOW THESE PEOPLE DRESSED

meanwhile, all of your kids will be laughing at what you look like now.



the only thing that really hasn't changed is that the elderly still dress like the elderly. there's some wisdom in that, i think.

2/20/2012 3:12:27 PM

So what you're trying to say is, start dressing like the elderly now?

2/20/2012 3:15:01 PM

how come old people shrink, yet their pants are still always way too short?

2/20/2012 3:28:15 PM

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM. Reason : Z]

2/20/2012 3:33:41 PM

I heard Eastland Mall is now closed. That makes me super sad. That's where I went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and would have nightmares about falling over the third level railings onto the ice.

2/20/2012 3:35:08 PM

found a pic of iheartkisses

2/20/2012 3:39:15 PM

Quote :

"nightmares about falling over the third level railings escalators onto the ice."

(see http://youtu.be/25JFexCQFAI?t=40s)

2/20/2012 3:55:43 PM

^^^ Eastland Mall has been closed for a while now. I think there were only one or two tenants left when I arrived in Charlotte and that was about three years ago. But they do have a nice, new bus station out front on Central Ave. though.

2/20/2012 4:04:32 PM

You summabitch! Haha. Those escalators can go to hell too! So sad to see the ice gone though. That was the first place I ever went skating.

Childhood fears ITT.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 4:06 PM. Reason : .]

2/20/2012 4:05:04 PM

I saw Jurassic Park at Eastland mall. I think that may have been the last time I went in that place...they had a sweet arcade though. Mall arcades were the best.

2/20/2012 4:14:28 PM

ahh i remember south square mall in durham... used to be on 15-501 where target is now. it even had a 2-screen movie theater waaay back in the day. i miss that place!

2/20/2012 4:14:30 PM

^^ YES!! How could I have forgotten that!!?! I, too, saw Jurassic Park there. Now I just feel old. Haha.

2/20/2012 4:18:29 PM

arcades in malls are also pretty much extinct now. RIP Cyberstation.

2/20/2012 4:19:04 PM

I found an arcade at a mall in the DC/Maryland area recently, can't remember the name of it but I played the hell out of the pinball machine.

2/20/2012 4:20:45 PM

There's a pretty crappy arcade in Four Seasons mall in Greensboro

Cyberstation was the 2nd arcade in Crabtree. The first was called Aladdin's Castle.

2/20/2012 4:23:19 PM

There was an Aladdin's Castle at Hanes Mall as late as 2003

2/20/2012 4:27:16 PM

I just went to Dave & Buster's last night

2/20/2012 4:34:19 PM

Oh man I loved that Aladdin's Castle. Sometimes, probably when my parents just didn't want me hanging around, they would give me 20 bucks and leave me in there for like 3 hours.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM. Reason : for 20 bucks you got 30 bucks worth of tokens!]

2/20/2012 4:35:35 PM

the proprietor of Fashionable Male beat a raincheck into my stomach.

2/20/2012 4:37:24 PM

EMCE considering a Patrick Swayze poster purchase.

2/20/2012 7:35:03 PM

Quote :

"^^^ Eastland Mall has been closed for a while now. I think there were only one or two tenants left when I arrived in Charlotte and that was about three years ago. But they do have a nice, new bus station out front on Central Ave. though."

The house where my family lived when I was born was near Eastland Mall; my mom would tell me that she used to walk around there with me in a stroller. We moved before I was two though (late 1982), so I never saw the inside of it. Drove past the mall and the house when we visited Charlotte in the mid 90's and it looked like the neighborhood was going downhill even then, not surprised it's closed now.

Quote :

"There's a pretty crappy arcade in Four Seasons mall in Greensboro"

Holy shit, that's still there? The one at the corner of the food court? I remember it being next to Arby's and Steak Escape, but that was in the late 90's.

2/22/2012 6:27:14 PM

Oh no, that one is closed I think


This one is downstairs I think

2/22/2012 11:02:17 PM

There are so many people in rural NC where I grew up that still look like that

2/22/2012 11:07:06 PM

^ain't that the truth

2/22/2012 11:11:19 PM

wow, the mom/daughter outfits are the lulz

2/22/2012 11:43:02 PM

somebody post some north hills pics when it was an indoor mall

2/23/2012 3:05:56 AM

lol

[Edited on February 23, 2012 at 7:07 AM. Reason : .]

2/23/2012 7:03:45 AM

Quote :

"^^ YES!! How could I have forgotten that!!?! I, too, saw Jurassic Park there. Now I just feel old. Haha. "

ahahahahaha yea i went and saw home alone 2 there when i was in third grade, also i remember going there and christmas shopping when i was i kid to..

As for the ice skating, i went there for shits and giggles one day right before they decided to close the mall with a friend, and they turned the ice skating rink into indoor soccer fields.

In the 90s:



Before it closed:

2/23/2012 7:06:39 AM

INDOOR

SOCCER

FIELDS

2/23/2012 7:51:02 AM

Man, I loved some Eastland mall.

2/23/2012 8:43:32 AM

leathermyst spotting?

2/23/2012 9:33:36 AM

I know a guy that used to live next to and hang out at the mall that was used in Dawn of the Dead. Doesn't get any cooler than that. I've been to see it. That clock tower is still there.

2/23/2012 10:47:40 AM

^ NIce! I've always wanted to visit that mall!

2/23/2012 10:56:03 AM

Like a Boss .. with a satchel

2/24/2012 11:21:15 AM

i swear these pictures were on here like a year ago but i can't find it

or im having a stroke

[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM. Reason : ^it's a shopping bag you dumb fuck]

[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM. Reason : a guy with a shopping bag, at the fucking mall, call in tmz]

2/24/2012 11:28:31 AM

Quote :

"There was an Aladdin's Castle at Hanes Mall as late as 2003"

I don't think that arcade closed until 2007 or 2008 (maybe a few months before the crabtree cyberstation did). They did pretty well until all the managers Namco left around here were all the total douchebags (Asian guy, I think Mike? Julie? - some butch chick? Some trailer trash Adam guy?)

2/24/2012 12:45:37 PM

Quote :

"[Edited on February 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM. Reason : ^it's a shopping bag you dumb fuck]"

Damn it, just pretend it's a satchel, it makes the picture better.

2/24/2012 1:02:17 PM

Cyberstation at Crabtree has been closed for like 10 years

2/24/2012 1:12:45 PM

I was friends with so many managers at Aladdin's Castle at Hanes Mall. So many great memories of that place.

1) Won the Time Crisis 2 tournament.
2) Anyone remember when Adam was the manager? Tall, white guy. He modded the Tekken 2 machine (the big ass one) so that it would work with nickels. 10 plays for $1.00!
3) Adam would let us all in after it closed and put the games on free play. We'd be there in until 11:30 or midnight.
4) Dropped acid so many times while hanging out there.
5) If you wanted drugs, all you had to do was walk directly across to Frank-n-Stein (and talk to Shell, which I assume was short for Michelle).
6) Really awesome people hung out there. Liz, Raven, Michelle (not the same as from Frank-n-Stein), Gerald, Scott (Gerald and Scott always wore the black trench coats), Stoney, Damien, etc.

2/24/2012 4:14:24 PM

I miss arcades. So much.

2/24/2012 4:17:02 PM

i think the reason Eastland Mall closed down had something to do with all the gang related fights and shootings that occurred inside the mall

2/24/2012 4:32:21 PM

Quote :

"Cyberstation at Crabtree has been closed for like 10 years"

I don't think it's been that long because I remember when it closed since I was working in the mall at the time. So it couldn't have been any earlier than 2004. I think it might have been early 2006 that it closed and a bunch of nerds were raging in the food court.

2/24/2012 4:36:54 PM

lol @ nerds ragin in the food court


We need to have a TWW Arcade field trip. Seems to be a lot of holes in our hearts that only arcades can fix

2/24/2012 4:45:56 PM

^^ ya, last time i was there was probably circa 2003 with the usual DDR crowd.

2/24/2012 4:51:44 PM

Theres an arcade at Randolph Mall in Asheboro. Used to be Aladdins Castle, now its time out I think.

2/24/2012 5:05:10 PM