This one is so interesting. It is a wide open space, and yet, it is the embodiment of transience. So much could be here, and I can see it. This was maybe a Macy's, or a Kohl's. It looks like it is from a shopping mall. A great center, now derelict. Maybe that's just from my background as a 90s child, living through the end of the mall era, now looking back upon it with rose lenses.
I've been inside a couple of stores before they opened. Like they build it, they paint it, they do the infrastructure (electrical, plumbing), they put in the equipment like the freezers, refrigerators, the trash compactor, then they put up the aisles and the signs (the ones that say what's down each aisle, but they don't slot the text cards in yet, so they're just blank), and until the merchandise arrives, it kinda just sits there. Been in a few like that. It's a real trip. Sometimes the registers are in and turned off, I've been in one where the registers weren't installed, or even the conveyor belts for the checkout line, just the desk-type things all that would be built onto.
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Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 220d
This one is so interesting. It is a wide open space, and yet, it is the embodiment of transience. So much could be here, and I can see it. This was maybe a Macy's, or a Kohl's. It looks like it is from a shopping mall. A great center, now derelict. Maybe that's just from my background as a 90s child, living through the end of the mall era, now looking back upon it with rose lenses.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
it feels like mervyns to me, but that might just be my locale
Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 220d
The random working lights tops this off perfectly.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 220d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 220d
That or the registers?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 220d
I've been inside a couple of stores before they opened. Like they build it, they paint it, they do the infrastructure (electrical, plumbing), they put in the equipment like the freezers, refrigerators, the trash compactor, then they put up the aisles and the signs (the ones that say what's down each aisle, but they don't slot the text cards in yet, so they're just blank), and until the merchandise arrives, it kinda just sits there. Been in a few like that. It's a real trip. Sometimes the registers are in and turned off, I've been in one where the registers weren't installed, or even the conveyor belts for the checkout line, just the desk-type things all that would be built onto.
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 220d
looks like a hospital...
pigup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
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