{"id":14102,"date":"2014-12-11T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2014-12-11T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:06:52","slug":"the-place-my-paychecks-went-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-place-my-paychecks-went-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The Place My Paychecks Went To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Milwaukee has a tour (from 2012) of an old, closed mall: <a href=\"http:\/\/onmilwaukee.com\/market\/articles\/northridgetour.html\" target=\"_new\">Inside a ghost mall: Northridge sits quietly, unknown future ahead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you grew up in Milwaukee or have lived here for some time, you certainly remember Northridge Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The 800,000-square foot former shopping center on the corner of 76th St. and Brown Deer Road sits just 10 minutes from River Hills, one of Milwaukee&#8217;s most affluent suburbs. Built by Herb Kohl and his partners, it opened in 1973, a virtual carbon copy of Southridge. And after a slow decline, it finally shut its doors 30 years later in 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back when I was at the university, my job was on 76th Street, so it was easy after clocking out on a Friday night and cashing a paycheck to hop on the number 67 bus to Northridge, where I could spend my less than a hundred bucks at Suncoast Video, Sam Goody, Babbage&#8217;s, Waldenbooks, and B. Dalton&#8217;s (yes, children, there were <em>two<\/em> bookstores in the mall in those days before Amazon.com.  Sometimes, my friend Doug and I would walk a block to Camelot Music, which was a store in itself and larger than Goody.  And at the end of the evening, I&#8217;d spread the loot on my bunk and enjoy all the prospects of the weekend to come.  What first?  The music?  The books?  The video games?  The videocassettes?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, now that I&#8217;m older and I can just get what I want if I want it that nothing really captures the anticipation I got from that.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through the pictures of the empty mall, I can still tell where things were and where the pictures were taken.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on Facebook.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Milwaukee has a tour (from 2012) of an old, closed mall: Inside a ghost mall: Northridge sits quietly, unknown future ahead: If you grew up in Milwaukee or have lived here for some time, you certainly remember Northridge Mall. The 800,000-square foot former shopping center on the corner of 76th St. and Brown Deer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14103,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions\/14103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}