Had a perfect weekend at the old Galleria in Dayton last month

I hit three levels of that place on a Saturday and found zero vandalism. The anchor store still had mannequins dressed in 90s clothes, like someone just walked off shift. Made it through the whole food court without hearing glass crunch under my boots. Has anyone else stumbled on a mall that felt frozen in time like that?

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laura_black313d ago

Nah I used to think dead malls were just sad, but your post changed my mind.

davis.noah7d ago

Full on frozen in time, thats wild. No vandalism in a dead mall is basically unheard of these days, I swear every abandoned spot I hit has at least one tag on a wall or a smashed soda machine. Mannequins still in 90s gear is a crazy detail, like what brand were they even selling back then, Limited Too? The no glass crunch in the food court is the part that gets me, every old mall I walk through sounds like I'm stepping on potato chips everywhere I go.

evan_campbell7d ago

Mannequins still in 90s gear? Dude, it was probably just cheap mannequins nobody cared enough to move. You're making it sound like a time capsule when it's probably just a bunch of old clothes that were too outdated to sell in a regular store. Is it really that deep or just another dusty building?