staceycoleman:
“Also on the site was Condon’s Department Store, a locally owned department store with a location in downtown Charleston which was founded in the 1800’s. The mall also featured a 2-screen General Cinema and national tenants such as Revco Drug, Radio Shack, Thom McAn, Hickory Farms, Piece Goods Shop, Friedman’s Jewelers and a mix of locally owned shops.”
This is also from Deadmalls.com and is about the mall that was on the highway right between my house and my grandparents house growing up. I was just telling Lee about this place last night, I was talking about Condon’s which I said is the best place to buy Buster Brown saddle shoes, or lead crystal vases.
I think it’s odd that they don’t even mention the weirdness of the DMV being located just inside a backdoor with parking near the stores’ dumpsters. That’s where I got my permit.
This is where you go when you get a remote control car for Christmas and you want to drive it around. Also good for standing in line to see the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Your mom won’t let you bike over to the billiards place there by yourself, but if you want to play Street Fighter (which just came out), you’ll break that rule.
1 week ago
The day she was let go, Elliott (85 years old) said she asked new call center director Steve Houghton, “Do you mean to tell me, after 26 years, you don’t have anything for me?”
He shook his head, Elliott said, and said, “No.”
She was quickly ushered out a side door and not allowed to pick up personal belongings or say goodbye to co-workers.
Houghton started working for Nielsen on Feb. 4, according to the company. The firings started soon after.
Rose Schulz, 79, of Clearwater said after 16 years, it took about two minutes to be fired and ushered out the door.
“I’ll need to work, will you give me a reference?” she said she asked Houghton.
“Number of years worked and your position,” she remembers him saying. “That’s standard.”
From this article. Imagine some point in the future when people treat each other right. I really hope we get there. But I have my doubts.
Got there via azspot.
1 week ago
zacharyr:
“Like a lot of American kids, I read [Lord of the Flies] in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn’t get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.”
-Paul Graham, Why Nerds are Unpopular
I like how this essay gets off to an awkward start and then explodes with insight.
Haha, yeah, so often in school they tried to get us to figure out the meaning of books that we were just totally incapable of understanding. Guess what! Kids don’t have a huge library of personal life experiences! They haven’t been reading nonfiction books, reading Harper’s or whatever, or watching the World News or having complex, adult romantic relationships. Kids just play video games, act cruelly towards each other, have awkward, immature relationships and mope in their bedrooms.
I didn’t figure this out until I was much older, obviously, but when I did, I was like “Why were those teachers so frustrated that we couldn’t understand the deeper meaning in those books written by adults that we had no way of relating to in the least?”
They could have just told us what the fuck the point of the book was.
1 week ago
Dear Netflix,
Do you know what might be better than a bunch of confusingly designed pages that show different chunks of the Instant Play movies that are available? How about one fucking page that shows me all of the movies? How hard is that?
Sincerely,
me
1 week ago
