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The escalator pit at Granite Run looked like a full city under the mall
I spent a lot of time at Granite Run Mall outside Philly as a kid, so when it finally shut down in 2015 I had to see it. My buddy knew a guy who knew the security schedule, so we went in through a loading dock. The whole lower level was flooded up to my knees, and the escalator pit had old shopping carts, a mattress, and a full rack of clothes still on hangers floating in the water. It felt less like a dead building and more like a sunken ship you could walk around in. Anyone else find weird stuff in the mechanical spaces that makes the place feel more alive than it ever was?
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terry_lewis217d ago
That flooded escalator pit with clothes still on hangers is wild, like the mall just froze mid-day and nobody ever came back for their stuff. I bet the mechanical rooms are where all the real stories hide, the stuff shoppers never saw or cared about.
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