I love the Mall Rats story. I really hate the demise of the malls. Back in their heyday, malls (at least ours when we lived in northern Ct then) were community centers. I used to bring the kids there when they were young teens and let them walk around and meet up with friends. Our mall wasn't so large that I totally lost track of their approximate location. On days I may have been feeling a little down, I would take myself to the mall and wander around and almost always run into someone I know and have a nice cheerful chat. That mall still exists, with a few oddball stores and one of them is Claires!
A few years after we moved to NH, the pandemic struck. My husband and I would drive down to the mall in Concord to walk when the weather was bad. There were just a few stores still in business, but we were really impressed with the art deco beauty of that mall. Just a few months ago during one of the rain deluges, we went there again to walk, and the interior of the mall was completely closed. So sad.
Yes, I buy a ton of stuff from Amazon myself, but there is nothing like touching the fabric and trying things on.
And on a side note, Pentatonix is one of my favorites! And in the heyday of my youth, I used to love going to concerts at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center!
I grew up in Rockland County, NY, went to college in way upstate NY and made friends from the Albany area, from where we went to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center from time to time. Upon graduation, we lived in the metro NY area and when my husband was transferred to northernmost CT, we thought we had moved to heaven. When we retired and moved to the Lakes Region of NH, we KNEW we had moved to heaven. Personally, I could live even further north, but we think this is "it". We just vacation up there now.
P.S. You will be happy to know that my 71 year old husband hiked up and down Mt. Washington several weeks ago!!!
Awesome, tell him great job! I grew up in Buffalo and came out to Albany and Syracuse all the time for shows and concerts. This was my first time to the Arts Center, though. Really nice!
I'm reminded reading all this of my son's first exposure to live music. He was 13 going on 20 and we were at the Centrum in Worcester to see RATT, his favorite ("Round and round"). So this newer band opens the show and after a couple tunes I said to my son, "That band is going places." That band opening band was none other than Bon Jovi!!!
Oh my gosh LOL! I have a RATT story as well - they opened for AC/DC when I saw them and to this day, a RATT pic is the only pic I ever brought back from a concert! I'm also pretty certain about ten percent of my hearing was lost at that show.
Awe how awesome thar she loved Pentatonix too! They do an amazing cover of Sound of Silence. It is interesting what our kids focus on and they can see the tiniest of details (cobwebs). Too funny about the mall story.
I love the Mall Rats story. I really hate the demise of the malls. Back in their heyday, malls (at least ours when we lived in northern Ct then) were community centers. I used to bring the kids there when they were young teens and let them walk around and meet up with friends. Our mall wasn't so large that I totally lost track of their approximate location. On days I may have been feeling a little down, I would take myself to the mall and wander around and almost always run into someone I know and have a nice cheerful chat. That mall still exists, with a few oddball stores and one of them is Claires!
A few years after we moved to NH, the pandemic struck. My husband and I would drive down to the mall in Concord to walk when the weather was bad. There were just a few stores still in business, but we were really impressed with the art deco beauty of that mall. Just a few months ago during one of the rain deluges, we went there again to walk, and the interior of the mall was completely closed. So sad.
Yes, I buy a ton of stuff from Amazon myself, but there is nothing like touching the fabric and trying things on.
And on a side note, Pentatonix is one of my favorites! And in the heyday of my youth, I used to love going to concerts at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center!
Did you grow up in that area?
I grew up in Rockland County, NY, went to college in way upstate NY and made friends from the Albany area, from where we went to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center from time to time. Upon graduation, we lived in the metro NY area and when my husband was transferred to northernmost CT, we thought we had moved to heaven. When we retired and moved to the Lakes Region of NH, we KNEW we had moved to heaven. Personally, I could live even further north, but we think this is "it". We just vacation up there now.
P.S. You will be happy to know that my 71 year old husband hiked up and down Mt. Washington several weeks ago!!!
Awesome, tell him great job! I grew up in Buffalo and came out to Albany and Syracuse all the time for shows and concerts. This was my first time to the Arts Center, though. Really nice!
I'm reminded reading all this of my son's first exposure to live music. He was 13 going on 20 and we were at the Centrum in Worcester to see RATT, his favorite ("Round and round"). So this newer band opens the show and after a couple tunes I said to my son, "That band is going places." That band opening band was none other than Bon Jovi!!!
Oh my gosh LOL! I have a RATT story as well - they opened for AC/DC when I saw them and to this day, a RATT pic is the only pic I ever brought back from a concert! I'm also pretty certain about ten percent of my hearing was lost at that show.
...and it kills me to never have seen AC/DC. Thank goodness for YouTube!
Awe how awesome thar she loved Pentatonix too! They do an amazing cover of Sound of Silence. It is interesting what our kids focus on and they can see the tiniest of details (cobwebs). Too funny about the mall story.