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’ […]

Towne Mall Galleria: Frozen in Time

Towne Mall: Well aren’t I aesthetically pleasing. Michael: Yeah I mean your style is right up my alley. Towne Mall: Oh you think so!? You should come in! Are you hungry!? I’ve got mexican food! Yeah that’s all, but it’s really good I promise!” This has been a short interaction between an incredibly desperate enclosed […]

Eastgate Mall: Peace In The Middle East

The middle east of the greater Cincinnati Metro area of course… “I am Clermont county through and through, and you can take that to your meemaw’s grave.”-Eastgate Mall Intro: COVID conspiracy theorists, trucks with NRA stickers, and of course Blue Lives Matter merchandise can all be found in one convenient destination, right off of I-275! […]

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 […]

Canton Centre (Mellett) Mall: The Little Mall That Couldn’t

“Why am I still here.”- Canton Centre Intro and Mall Information: Canton Centre Mall formerly known as Mellett Mall, opened in 1965 as an open-air shopping center. The Mall’s history goes far back beyond 1965 though, way back to the year 1926. The name Mellett was in honor of a Canton newspaper journalist named Donald […]

Rosie Red: A Review of the 1997 Cadillac Seville STS

“I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.”-Rosie Intro and Vehicle Information: A lot has been said about the ’92-’97 Cadillac Seville, and while most are not great things, this car has a lot of ups that get forgotten. Debuting in 1992, the all-new Cadillac Seville was so impressive that it […]

Westland Mall: Abandoned Wasteland

“I was once one of three directional malls in Columbus. Though I was sent off to mall heaven, my corpse will remain in light.”- Westland Mall Backstory: Last weekend I decided to venture home to Cincinnati to visit my family and take a little day trip down to yeehaw Tennessee, but on my way I […]