When I was just 15 years old, Randall Park Mall was opened. It was the largest mall in the world at that time and it officially began the age of “mall culture: that pervaded the U.S. in the 1980’s. Since I lived less than 4 miles from the mall, I became a “mall rat”. Beating high scores in one of the two video arcades, buying my jeans at “County Seat” or “the Gap”, and seeing a LOT of movies in the mall cinema. It is currently being demolished, but a photographer went in just before the wrecking ball to document the decay.

Abandoned mall that was once the largest in the world