"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
07/05/2020 at 20:32 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
07/05/2020 at 20:32 • Filed to: None | 1
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I had an opportunity to walk around my old neighborhood with a f riend yesterday. Part of that was walking around the two shopping malls near by, looking at the changes . The above store was f ormerly a Bon-Ton, previously an outpost for Hess’s Department Store, and before that a Grant City. T his property is now becoming an Urban Air Adventure Park. This shopping complex has been through many changes over the years - it started life in the early 19 70s as an actual mall before being de-malled in the early 2000s. I still remember and miss the days when it was actually still a mall.
At the next mall over , the old Blockbuster has been replaced with a Mavis Discount Tire.
Bonus: The fitness club is under new ownership...
“Yes, I work out at The Maxx Fitness Clubzz, spelled with two Xs and two Zs...”
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> Boxer_4
07/05/2020 at 20:41 |
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Glad I’m not the only weirdo who takes pictures of boring scenes for posterity. Interesting to a select few, myself included. Bon Ton’s off center door would drive me crazy.
dogisbadob
> Boxer_4
07/05/2020 at 21:00 |
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Bon-Ton chips are awesome
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Boxer_4
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07/05/2020 at 21:09 |
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I’ve started to do that more as I’ve gotten older... you start to more easily forget how things used to look, and realize that things change more quickly than you remembered...
I very much wish I had taken pictures of the interior of the mall back when I remember it from the ‘90s, but I would have been 7 at the time.
Honestly, I never noticed the off center door until you pointed it out - but I certainly do now!
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> Boxer_4
07/05/2020 at 21:14 |
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I know they will change and am just preparing. Someone has to do it. I have a strange fascination with the mundane. My locals malls still have some surprising life left in them, but they are showing some early signs of struggling. Next time I go I might want to take some pictures.
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> Boxer_4
07/05/2020 at 21:17 |
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Regarding the fitness center name...
Why?
Why?
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Boxer_4
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
07/05/2020 at 21:37 |
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It’s “trying to be different and stand out” gone silly...
I notice this at work, too... I believe the world has run out of unique small company names.
Stef Schrader
> Boxer_4
07/05/2020 at 22:26 |
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Was this name choice during the eVeRyThInG iS eXtReMe nineties, perhaps? Either way, it’s nutzzzz.
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Boxer_4
> Stef Schrader
07/07/2020 at 08:10 |
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Founded in 2011, with this location opening sometime early 2019... very nutzzzzz