Bradenton, Florida - December 14, 1976
Hush Puppies shoe salesman commits to his work in a shoe store at the DeSoto Square Mall Shopping Center during Christmas of 1976.
It's a living.
Mall history: 1973 - present
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Previous entries: 1, 2, 3
(Study image courtesy the Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection)
Those basset hound posters bring back a ton of memories.
ReplyDeleteI do love the Hound too. I clicked on the mall "website" and of course it is another generic, boring, bland thing!
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is that there are no pictures of the mall itself either inside or out! Is the message here that the mall itself does not really matter? Is the mall just the place for the various stores to exist? Are all the stores together less than the sum of the parts? Is that the message these companies that own multiple malls? It is the same on the westfield "web sites" too. Does this make sense to anyone?
Why does my head hurt?
Why won't Judy Jetson write back to me?
Any answers?
Kev
That's got to be one of the greatest pictures ever.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Xbox360 game "Dead Rising" were you can wear stupid headgear like that, hehe.
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