Many of you will remember the early 1980s as the period in American history when Baltimore's Renaissance was deemed to be complete, because a developer built two indoor-outdoor malls on public property. "Harborplace" became the place to take your out-of-town guests for the first few years, until it became too dangerous an outing. As the city ponders what to do with the almost-empty shells of two malls down there, enterprising people are standing on the Harbor docks with giant magnets, fishing for whatever is metallic. They find a lot of guns and stolen two-wheeled vehicles, which provides a sad exclamation point for the whole story.
And it's not only downtown where malls are so crowded that no one goes there anymore. This is the once-glorious Owings Malls Mall in its final days. There was a Saks Fifth Avenue there, where people would go to see the finest clothing available on Fifth Avenue. But no one bought that clothing, and Saks gave way to J.C. Penney. Ironically, a lot of shuttered malls are being leased as warehouse space for Amazon, which has replaced shopping in a mall with shopping from a sofa.
I found this but the source was not given. I'm gonna guess it was in Wisconsin, where they really take cheese seriously.
If you suspect that "they" are keeping the secrets from you, you might be right. But it's better to find your own happiness for yourself.
I brought home some nice of anchovies in one of those jars with a metal snap closure. It looked like a candle. Now here's this apple crumb dessert, looking fine, until you realize it's another candle! I hope it smells great!
Good advice.
This is from Colorado, where some sort of dispute rocks the camping world. My quibble is with the use of the word "recreate."
I might be wrong, but is this the room where Beethoven composed his Third Movement?
No horsing around in the house! Quit making a ruckus! Do parents say those things anymore?
The first guy to open a golf driving range was also the first guy to realize that someone had to go out there and retrieve all those Titleists!
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