John Grindrod: Remembering the Lima Mall way back when
By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist
While developing my topic on temp jobs last week, I got to thinking about my time at Butler’s Shoes back in the late 1960s and the Lima Mall as it was back then. When I started at Butler’s in 1968, the mall was, at three years old, not much more than a toddler.
Actually, the mall as it once was had been on my mind for quite some time, at least since the decision was made to pull the plug on Macy’s and a banner headline in my hometown newspaper on March 19 told me the owner of the mall, Washington Prime Group, was nearing bankruptcy.
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Oddly, unexpectedly, it was sad to stroll through the empty shopping cemetery. The place was the internet before the internet, our source of entertainment. It was where babies spit up on Santa, girls had their ears pierced for the first time, boys with wispy Orange Julius mustaches ogled the Farah Fawcett poster at Spencer Gifts, and parents ignored the organ demonstration at Fletcher’s Music on their way to Sears.
The mall in its glory was where Friday night football heroes were even bigger on Saturdays, Pat Benatar look-alikes morphed into Madonna-wannabes and hair styles went from feathered to fades like cassettes to CDs at Camelot Music. Indeed, who wasn’t cool at the mall?
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