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The Retail Ruins of America’s Ghost Malls

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With all the malls and retail spaces dotting the American landscape, ruined malls could someday stand as memorials to modern society. Photographer Brian Ulrich documents abandoned and neglected retail spaces, including many that have already fallen into decay.

The more immaculate of these malls evoke the nation of ghost malls Cory Doctorow imagines in his recent book Makers, or seem ripe for zombies. But the decaying images offer possible glimpses of America’s eventual ruins.

https://gizmodo.com/as-silicon-valley-crumbles-the-makers-will-inherit-the-5411121

Ghosts of Shopping Past [Morning News via Boing Boing]

JC Penney, Dixie Square Mall, 2009

Belz Factory Outlet Mall, 2009

Rolling Acres Mall 1, 2008

Columbus City Center, 2009

Dixie Square Mall, 2008

Kentucky Fried Chicken, 2009

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