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Topic: Akron malls

Topic: Akron malls

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L.C.
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Akron malls

Posted: 5/2/2014 8:43:51 PM

I know we often joke about Akron malls, but I found these pictures online of an Akron Mall, and I don't see how this is much of a recruiting advantage.

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Ryan Carey
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RE: Akron malls

Posted: 5/3/2014 1:01:29 AM

Cool photos, even if it's depressing! Both were very nice malls I remember visiting as a kid.

Ryan M. Carey
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Alan Swank
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RE: Akron malls

Posted: 5/4/2014 11:10:19 AM

As was City Center in downtown Columbus in its day. Times change as do neighborhoods and people keep moving further and further out. Polaris was farm land 10 years ago.

SBH
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RE: Akron malls

Posted: 5/4/2014 12:07:05 PM

The photos in Akron depict Rolling Acres Mall, which opened in the mid-1970s and was dying a quick death just 15 years later. Part of the downfall was the extension and expansion of bus service to the mall, which almost immediately brought in a crowd of thugs. By the early 1990s people were getting assaulted on a regular basis in the parking lot.

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