I read Macy's is pulling out of Spring Hill Mall, following a similar announcement from Sears a couple months ago. Kohl's is the only department store left (was not an original anchor). Won't be long now....I recall hanging out at Herman's World of Sporting Goods and the arcade there. Sbarro's Pizza. Man nothing will ever kill Sbarro's.

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Lakehurst in Waukegan.

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Sbarro or something like it was the last thing I remember being open at Lakehurst around January 99...I helped close the Spencer Gifts there...and when we left that last day, there was nothing left in that place.

I worked at Randhurst and for a small stretch at Woodfield. Randhurst was fine...no one gave a shit when we smoked down on the loading docks next to the trash compactor...I worked for a luggage company that had their storeroom right next to the store rooms for the food court...had to do something to kill the smell from the expired, rotting foods they'd stuff in there.

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Fox Valley Mall. Sbarro and Taco Bell.

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I worked at a Sbarro knock off called Villa Pizza in River Oaks Mall from 2004 on and off until 2007. It wasn't a bad gig actually. I would trade pizza for other foods from places they had in the food court. Give free drinks to the custodians and they would collect our trays and stuff for us. Worked with this Mexican guy named Juan who would bust ass and clean everything in the back by 8-815, then I would clock him out at 9. On Saturdays we would drink Tecate in the back until 9:30-10 after closing. PLace could get busy on the weekends. Easily would make 300+ pizzas on a Saturday. At my peak, I could go from doughball in the tray to topped pizza in the oven in less than 30 seconds.

I generally did not hang out much at the mall as a teenager, but two of my yute that I did frequent with my parents or whatever was Ford City and Chicago Ridge.

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Evergreen Plaza. IIRC it was the first local indoor mall and has been largely torn down for 20 years. And I think the theaters have been gone even longer.

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Oh man I forgot about the Plaza. Was taken there MANY times as kid as well. I remember my grandman taking me to a restaurant inside there quite a few times. I forget the name of the place.

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I had an office at Spring Hill for about a year. They had so many open stores they rented us a space at a very reasonable price. I ate at that Food Court all the time. Sbarro's was a personal favorite.

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Ford City

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Did they know you as, Norm?

where did you live?

I probably haven't been in there in at least 25 years.

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Ford City.

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I made the drive from Evanston every day.

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With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That must have been some really cheap rent.

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It was. But the business was based way out there. We were building out our permanent office at the time.

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I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Jefferson Square Mall in Joliet with most of our time time spent at the arcade and Orange Julius. I remember the The mall being built in the mid-70's but it was torn down 30 years later. The demise of its anchors (Wieboldt's and Montgomery Ward) doomed it.

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That about sums up every mall, it seems. I'm pretty sure that was what killed Randhurst in the long run...at the end Carson's was the only one open.

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CherryVale Mall. Back in the 80's there was no Perryville Road so you would leave Rockford, drive through cornfields, and arrive at a mall in the middle of nowhere it seemed. Now everything just runs together.

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Ford City then Chicago Ridge.

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Hillside, then Yorktown and Oak Brook.

Venture store?

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I guess my mall was Old Orchard, but it was outdoors and out of fashion when I was a teenager. It came back to life with some higher end type stores moving in and I have to say that it's fun to walk around it at Christmas time even if it's a little cold.

It's not like we hung out there as kids though. We did go to Old Orchard Bowl, but that was down the street and not in the actual mall.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Da HIP.

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Yeah, we never hung out at malls in grade school.

I occasionally went to Water Tower in high school. I was getting side eyed looks at Water Tower before it was cool.

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North Riverside until I could drive, then Oakbrook.

The Brickyard

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Let's us not forget the card shop and footlocker that was there.

Lakehurst

Loved the pizza rolls from Orange Julius...or was that the place right next to OJ?...which was almost right next to Alladin's Castle, which was always packed. I never got into much, other than Asteroids, and I sucked at that.

Would get my haircuts at Connie Pagano's Barbery Coast. I never quite figured out that Connie was a dude.

Spent plenty of time looking at boobs and ass in fantasy art books at B Dalton Booksellers.

Lucked into front row seats at the Genesee to George Thorogood from the Ticketron upstairs at Carson's.

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Orange Julius. Wow. I remember getting a couple back in the seventies. I don't remember anything other than the towers and containers of oranges everywhere.

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Spent a bit of time at Spring Hill as had friends up there. Only memory of the food court is Boardwalk fries... think there was a Panda Express or something right next to it. Must be close to 25 years since I’ve been to a store at that mall. We were equally far from all malls it seemed except Charlestowne which always seemed half empty when I was still in the area.