Eastland Mall: The Last “land”

“land” As in directional malls of Columbus, Ohio. More on those later… **Disclaimer** This mall is not to be confused with Columbus’ much newer and incredibly popular indoor/outdoor shopping destination that is Easton Town Center. If you want to learn about Easton you’ve come to the wrong place. Intro: How’s it going everybody? I know […]

The Trot to Trotwood!: Sears at Salem Mall Still Stands

December 26, 2020, Trotwood, Ohio Me: Hey nice tat. The Ghost of Salem Mall: I’ve been trying to remove this thing for years, walk a mile in my shoes. Imagine that your whole body and everything was gone but you still had one arm, oh and I lived through a tornado. Me: Wow I never […]

The Akron Skywalk System: A Hidden Pleasure

Intro: You’re in downtown Akron, looking for somewhere to park. You head to the garage under the contemporary Cascade Plaza, you walk out of the garage and into an underground walkway you stumble upon this. What do you do? If you walk by without even a passing glance at the beauty of this walkway, then […]

Century III Mall: A Brutalist BEAST

November 14, 2020, West Mifflin, PA “Bow down to me brittle human; I lay underneath ye olde ruins of steel, and no I have nothing to do with The Office!”-Century III Mall Backstory: In November I headed up to Akron to visit my girlfriend but instead of spending most of our time in the ol’ […]

Cascade Galleria (Towne Mall): A Forgotten Mall in a Forgotten Town

“Wanna see an untouched 1970 gem? Look no further than me.”- Cascade Galleria Backstory: Amid the nonstop talk about coronavirus throughout the United States, I felt compelled to go on a little day trip to escape the scariness of the world. At first I just went on a drive like normal with no set destination […]

Chapel Hill Mall: Death is Imminent

“Join me and we can haunt Akron with our dead mall spirits.”- Rolling Acres Mall Intro: “The next Rolling Acres.” “A scary place to shop.” Many things like such have been said about Chapel Hill Mall of late. The past four years have not been very kind to Chapel Hill and that’s an understatement. YouTube […]

Midway Mall: A Place to Breathe

“When gone I am, the last of the malls in Elyria will I be.”-Midway Mall *in Yoda voice Intro: Well that was actually a dumb quote because this is the only mall that Elyria has ever had, but knowing me you know I had to throw a Star Wars quote into this. Nonetheless, Midway Mall […]

Union Street Diner: The Best Restaurant in Ohio University (Athens, OH)

It’s unfair how good Union Street Diner is. I almost feel bad for every other restaurant in the area that has to compete with them. If Thomas Rarden and Daniel Boone were still alive today you can just about guarantee they’d agree with me when I say that Union Street Diner (or Union for short) […]

Great Northern Mall: A Surprise to be Sure, but a Welcome One

“A wise mall once said nothing.”- Mall God Welcome to stop 2 on the Mall Maniac exhibition! Backstory: To be honest, I had no idea what I was going to see when I went to this mall. I looked up a few pictures online and a little bit off of Wikipedia but this was by […]

SouthPark Mall Review (Strongsville, OH)

“Wait a minute, Cleveland. Are you telling me you built a shopping mall… on the site of what was going to be the Browns new stadium?!”- Marty McFly The quote above is actually true. This land was purchased originally by Cleveland Browns’ former owner Art Modell in the ’80s with a secret plan to build […]