We have decaying gothic castles at home
Sep. 18th, 2025 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingA tour of dead and dying malls around Philadelphia
https://billypenn.com/2022/08/01/philadelphia-malls-tour-moorestown-exton-gallery-neshaminy-oxford/
Now officially called Voorhees Town Center, following a failed 2007 rebrand, the mall is a ghost town. Footsteps echo ominously through empty tile halls that contain just four or five operational storefronts, including a karate dojo and an inexplicably new-looking Bath & Body Works. The handsome corporate modern-style food court, complete with hotel lobby palm trees, is completely vacant. Every restaurant and every concession stand has closed, leaving nothing behind but dozens of tables and a few workers from a nearby behavioral health clinic enjoying their bring-from-home lunch in uncanny silence.
I also appreciate the writer's take on the Lovecraftian architecture of the King of Prussia mall:
The interior takes on the uncanny geometry and baffling architecture of a Las Vegas casino. The packed hallways seem to fold in on themselves, leaving you disoriented among apparently endless sunlit atriums and multiple redundant food courts.
https://billypenn.com/2022/08/01/philadelphia-malls-tour-moorestown-exton-gallery-neshaminy-oxford/
Now officially called Voorhees Town Center, following a failed 2007 rebrand, the mall is a ghost town. Footsteps echo ominously through empty tile halls that contain just four or five operational storefronts, including a karate dojo and an inexplicably new-looking Bath & Body Works. The handsome corporate modern-style food court, complete with hotel lobby palm trees, is completely vacant. Every restaurant and every concession stand has closed, leaving nothing behind but dozens of tables and a few workers from a nearby behavioral health clinic enjoying their bring-from-home lunch in uncanny silence.
I also appreciate the writer's take on the Lovecraftian architecture of the King of Prussia mall:
The interior takes on the uncanny geometry and baffling architecture of a Las Vegas casino. The packed hallways seem to fold in on themselves, leaving you disoriented among apparently endless sunlit atriums and multiple redundant food courts.
