Starcourt’s Stand-In

The summer has been all abuzz with the arrival of the 3rd season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. The show lives up to its promise of 1985 nostalgic fun, filled with monsters, mayhem, murder, mad scientists, and …a mall.

Malls took off in the 1980s but now, thirty years later, they’re quickly turning into massive crypts, remnants of time passed. The power of internet shopping and corporate greed have turned many malls into the modern monumental equivalent of a long lost friend, in most cases remembered fondly, but growing ever distant.

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