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

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"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
Pizza helpers (feat. Oliver)
January 11, 2026 at 12:07 AM
It's 2026 and people on Flickr are still weird.
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 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
The only other one on the list I've visited is Pittsburgh Mills -- a mall which never found success. Beyond a closeout warehouse in its old Sears Grand, Macy's is its last anchor and the mall is nearly-empty.

Both Marley Station and Pittsburgh Mills are victims of known slumlords, Namdar Realty.
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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
Also of geographical note... Video Vendor, Inc. was a Chicago-based company.
January 7, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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
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
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
I so very much wanted to visit this grocery store that's more/less stuck in the early half of the 20th century, but they're closed Sundays.
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Lexington, North Carolina (August 2025)
December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
junior claus
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
An identical, albeit larger building - dated to 1982 - also stands at 550 N. Lake St. in Mundelien.

Previously it was signed as offices for Highland Park Hospital, then much later as part of Advocate. Currently it houses a vein clinic.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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
Circa December 1965: Dixie Square Mall under construction, with Montgomery Ward in seasonal garb. Harvey, Illinois.

Three-photograph composite stitched from a severely water-damaged cache found in the mall's ruins in 2010.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Savage garden

Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #mall #retail #NC #photography
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My list is a bloodbath. I wish I made it to the Ohio sooner; missed Rolling Acres entirely and wish I shot more of Chapel Hill.
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Make life take the lemons back!

Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #mall #retail #NC #photography
December 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Wow, a surviving Spiegel sign
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
There was no "sealed basement" at Dixie Square btw, only the sub contained to the management offices. The mall's only escalators were between levels 1-2 in JCPenney and they were never walled-off.
December 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM