I used to think all abandoned malls were basically the same

That changed last month when I finally checked out the old Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi. I've been to a dozen dead malls, but this one had a whole wing from the 70s that was completely untouched, with orange shag carpet still in the food court. The timeline was wild, seeing a 1999 calendar in a security office right next to a store that looked like it closed in '87. What really got me was finding a perfectly preserved payphone with a local phone book still chained to it. Has anyone else found a spot where time just stopped in two different decades like that?

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victorb7425d ago

That payphone detail is amazing. I see this in old apartment buildings too, where a lobby gets a 2005 remodel but the basement laundry room is straight out of 1978. It's like time moves at different speeds in the same building.

vera_murphy25d ago

That "time moves at different speeds" thing victorb74 said is spot on. It's less about time stopping and more about money running out for updates. A mall will fix the main hall but leave a whole wing broke and forgotten.

henry_martinez17d ago

Remember seeing a movie theater that still had its 80s arcade in the back room, but the lobby sold tickets on iPads. Makes you wonder what future people will dig up from our time, right? Probably a charging cord tangled in a drawer full of pennies.