Other shops still had merchandise inside but were closed and locked up by those pull-down steel gates you see at pawn shops.
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Hell, it WAS Santa! Poor fellow must have expired during the holiday season when there were no children around to sit on his lap and request gaming headsets and GoPro cameras.Ī LOT of stores were out of business and the windows were covered with paper. I thought, this must be what it’s like to take one of those Richard Branson/Elon Musk rockets-to-the-stars adventures, only without any galaxies and worrying whether William Shatner, in the seat next to me, might disintegrate into goo as the ship approached that intense 3G acceleration force.Īt the bottom of the escalator - which was turned off, by the way - was a skeleton in a cobwebbed Santa suit slumped against a forgotten giant plastic candy cane.
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My first impression was of vast emptiness. Then came the slow walk to the Food Court.
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It’s a popular if eerie place - a house of worship, if you will, for acolytes of televised sporting events whose code of behavior therein has been formulated by commercials that depict tailgating as though choreographed by the Flying Wallendas on a four-day drunk. I came in by the Buffalo Wild Wings, which I assume will continue to exist. I parked at the opposite end from the Food Court, where the old Sears used to be, so I could traverse the length of the property and assess the situation with my own eyes. I breathe in an olfactory mélange only possible when the scents of shrimp teriyaki, a Beefy Melt Burrito and a chili dog with onions pole-dance together, then throw my arms out wide in joyful possibility like Julie Andrews letting us know that the hills are alive with the sound of music.Įarlier this week, with a sense of dread, I drove over to Crystal Mall. I pause to take a wide-pan, appreciative glance at the many culinary options before me, from the Wok Express and moving counter-clockwise past Dunkin Donuts, Sarku Japan, Taco Bell, Charleys Cheesesteaks, the Siamese-twin configuration of DQ and Orange Julius, then down the backstretch of Burger King, Taco Bell and Subway. No matter what happens at the Crystal Mall auction, I’ll treasure my many happy memories of striding into the Food Court entrance.
What a lot of folks don’t realize is that there are those among us who regard a Food Court as the only reason to go to a shopping mall - as opposed to actually shopping. There are lots of anxiety-inducing questions that spiral off from this situation, but none are bigger than: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE FOOD COURT?! On Monday, after 39 years, Waterford’s Crystal Mall goes up for auction.
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