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@jonrev.com
Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani.
Musings about retail/design/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...

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📍 the jonrev projects encompass 20+ years of exploring, digitally preserving and infodumping about dead malls, commercial architecture, abandoned buildings and other such places of memories.

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A: We need to stop killing legit third spaces for young adults and B: the old guard needs to seriously school the broccoli kids on urban exploring so they stop blowing spots up hotter than 100 suns in the span of less than a week.
Closed mall has elicited 402 calls for service since October; 30 arrests made this weekend alone
Authorities in Westminster are looking to spread awareness of vandalism at the Westminster Mall, which closed last October but has since become a hotbed of illicit activity.  According to the Westm…
ktla.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
"Everybody remember, we're parked under the Sunsphere"

The voyage home - August 2025
January 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Tail of the Dragon, August 2025
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Marquee update.
January 12, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Cold reception

Signal Hill Mall - Statesville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #abandoned #retail #NC #photography
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Macy's in the mirror.

This store, at Buffalo's Boulevard Mall opened in 1962 as Sattler's. In 1983, it changed over to Sibley's, followed by a stint as Kaufmann's, becoming Macy's in 2006. It is a casualty of the latest round of closures.

#photography #retail #stores #mirrors #atrium #buffalo
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Little more than a year since Hudson's Bay Co. - themselves heading toward liquidation - spun off its American assets to form Saks Global: bankruptcy is imminent for the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Off 5th and Horchow as luxury retail collapses.
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
14 Macy's stores will close in the latest culling announced today that will definitely be the final nail in several malls' coffins.

📷 among those, Marley Station store - Glen Burnie, Maryland
#macys #retail #storeclosing #deadmalls #photography
January 9, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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A graphic for our friends in Minnesota.
January 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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The "good kind of American" means cheese at this point

A&W, Northridge - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#deadmalls #abandoned #fastfood #urbex #mediumformat #photography
January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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before it was the rainforest cafe, the building at clark and ohio in river north had a lame animatronic al capone show thing going on; there wasn't much demand for Chuck E. Capone and $4m and 3 years later it closed

www.postcard-past.com/capones-chic...
Capone's / the Rainforest Cafe, Chicago
Somehow the Rainforest Cafe might be the least schlocky concept to occupy this building.
www.postcard-past.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped.

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January 7, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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The story it told of a river that flowed made me sad to think it was dead

"Picnic by the River"
Cincinnati Mills - Forest Park/Fairfield, Ohio (2021)
#deadmalls #foodcourt #y2k #mall #architecture #photography
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Last December marked 12 years since Safeway finished running the 72-store Dominick's grocery chain into the ground and pulled the plug. While competitors acquired many of their stores (and Safeway, itself) in the dozen years since: this location in Buffalo Grove still stands in mothballs.
January 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"hot! hot! hot!"

Polaroid 669 triple-exposure using some rescued Musicland neon
January 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Rattle & Hum version of "Bullet the Blue Sky" blaring in the supermarket
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
25 years ago today: Montgomery Ward throws in the towel, announces its final liquidation.

#retail #wards #electricave #IL #mediumformat #filmphotography #photography
December 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Lexington, North Carolina (August 2025)
December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
From my video collection rescued from the ruins of Northridge Mall: here's B-roll footage of its identical, elder sister - Southridge - at Christmastime in 1990.
Christmas at Southridge Mall (1990)
YouTube video by jonreVHS
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December 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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yellow line
skokie, illinois
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I've always loved this concrete building at 326 S. Milwaukee Ave. Libertyville, but don't know any history beyond its construction in 1985. It's currently vacant after housing a bicycle shop for years.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Pickleball Kingdom has opened in Waukegan's long-abandoned, former Child World store. Thus removes the last piece of post-retail blight from the area which was once home to Lakehurst Mall.
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've always loved this concrete building at 326 S. Milwaukee Ave. Libertyville, but don't know any history beyond its construction in 1985. It's currently vacant after housing a bicycle shop for years.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM