This weekend went by too fast.
At least I got stuff done. Went shopping for groceries (twice) and various foodstuffs, went to the doctor, got drugs, made dinner, and there's ganache chilling in the fridge.
I had the opportunity to go to Jo-Ann's today, the first time I've been in their new store. It's just like I remembered, except in a different spot -- same great selection of awesome candy in the same glass cases. And the owner was there running the place, and he was really nice and seemed appreciative when I started getting all nostalgic about the old store, back when I used to go to Pyramid Mall with my mom and if I begged enough, she might get me a quarter-pound of something on the way out, gummy coke bottles or chocolate bridge mix. I guess they must get that a lot, a lot of "hey, I remember you guys from before!" They even have a couple of pictures up of the old place, taken right before they tore the mall down.
Y'know, as run-down as that mall got, I still have fond memories of it: buying tapes at Record Town, with their blue carpet and crazy orange 70s-leftover decor; shopping with the parents at Ward's, which had bright green shag carpet in the women's section; going to Jamesway with my mom to run errands; getting pizza at Papa Gino's; the Casual Corner with its neat bi-level design; Chess King, home mostly of Reeboks and T-shirts; and the cheap movies, that short span when they'd do slightly-old-but-still-new movies at the theater (blue rubberized floor there) for like two bucks. Later on, everything started closing, the Anderson Little that looked like a castle wall at the entrance, the Jamesway that became a flea market, the bridal shop that turned into a Quick Draw room before being taken over by some sort of church, the Carl Co. store, the Fays that turned into Eckerd but hung on. Taco Bell came in, the only business that was actually moving in, not out, it seemed. And through it all, through the renaming and rebranding of the mall itself, through the opening of the newer, nicer mall next door and through the general decline and decay of the whole building, there was Jo-Anns, hanging on until the last day.
At least I got stuff done. Went shopping for groceries (twice) and various foodstuffs, went to the doctor, got drugs, made dinner, and there's ganache chilling in the fridge.
I had the opportunity to go to Jo-Ann's today, the first time I've been in their new store. It's just like I remembered, except in a different spot -- same great selection of awesome candy in the same glass cases. And the owner was there running the place, and he was really nice and seemed appreciative when I started getting all nostalgic about the old store, back when I used to go to Pyramid Mall with my mom and if I begged enough, she might get me a quarter-pound of something on the way out, gummy coke bottles or chocolate bridge mix. I guess they must get that a lot, a lot of "hey, I remember you guys from before!" They even have a couple of pictures up of the old place, taken right before they tore the mall down.
Y'know, as run-down as that mall got, I still have fond memories of it: buying tapes at Record Town, with their blue carpet and crazy orange 70s-leftover decor; shopping with the parents at Ward's, which had bright green shag carpet in the women's section; going to Jamesway with my mom to run errands; getting pizza at Papa Gino's; the Casual Corner with its neat bi-level design; Chess King, home mostly of Reeboks and T-shirts; and the cheap movies, that short span when they'd do slightly-old-but-still-new movies at the theater (blue rubberized floor there) for like two bucks. Later on, everything started closing, the Anderson Little that looked like a castle wall at the entrance, the Jamesway that became a flea market, the bridal shop that turned into a Quick Draw room before being taken over by some sort of church, the Carl Co. store, the Fays that turned into Eckerd but hung on. Taco Bell came in, the only business that was actually moving in, not out, it seemed. And through it all, through the renaming and rebranding of the mall itself, through the opening of the newer, nicer mall next door and through the general decline and decay of the whole building, there was Jo-Anns, hanging on until the last day.
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