A story in a recent edition of the Financial Times, described how the mall was the heart and soul of suburban American life at the ebb of the Cold War era. Here family units shopped, teenagers hung-out with their friends and even a few low-budget films were set.
Both the scarcity and novelty of the products to be found in these malls made fickle customers abandon the small retail outlets in their street corners for the splendour of these newly molted outfits. Their golden era was in the 1990s when a steady increase in population brought about bustling business.
