Southcenter Break!
I don't know if I posted this one before. If I did, it was a long time ago, and you could use a refresher.
This is Southcenter, which is located - appropriately enough - south of Seattle. It is still very much in existence and a truly horrible place to visit. But it looks like it had a certain suburban charm back when this photo was taken.
(btw, whatever would posess one to send a postcard of a mall?)
Here's what the text on the back says:
Southcenter Shopping Center, the northwest's largest air-conditioned shopping city, features a terrazzo surface and lush tropical planters in the 40 foot wide mall walkway between the 110 stores. One of the highlights of the center is the speciallly designed movile chandelier which hangs above the main intersection. Many of the stores take advantage of the completely heated and air-conditioned interior by having wide open entrances with no standard doorways. Southcenter is one of the few shopping centers to have four major department stores; the BON MARCHE, FREDERICK AND NELSON, J.C. PENNY, AND NORDSTROM-BEST. Southcenter is 8 minutes south of Seattle at Tukwilla and the junction of Interstates 5 & 405.
Without further adeiu, Here is that famous Mobile Chandelier. I have no idea if it is still there (I doubt it) and I'm not going to go there to check.
This is Southcenter, which is located - appropriately enough - south of Seattle. It is still very much in existence and a truly horrible place to visit. But it looks like it had a certain suburban charm back when this photo was taken.
(btw, whatever would posess one to send a postcard of a mall?)
Here's what the text on the back says:
Southcenter Shopping Center, the northwest's largest air-conditioned shopping city, features a terrazzo surface and lush tropical planters in the 40 foot wide mall walkway between the 110 stores. One of the highlights of the center is the speciallly designed movile chandelier which hangs above the main intersection. Many of the stores take advantage of the completely heated and air-conditioned interior by having wide open entrances with no standard doorways. Southcenter is one of the few shopping centers to have four major department stores; the BON MARCHE, FREDERICK AND NELSON, J.C. PENNY, AND NORDSTROM-BEST. Southcenter is 8 minutes south of Seattle at Tukwilla and the junction of Interstates 5 & 405.
Without further adeiu, Here is that famous Mobile Chandelier. I have no idea if it is still there (I doubt it) and I'm not going to go there to check.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Thursday, June 15, 2006
1 Comments:
At 7:10 AM,
daisymayrobin said…
All I can say is - WOW. As someone who grew up in the area and started hanging out at Southcenter when I was 12, which would be 1983, I can honestly say I think the chandelier was gone by then. But who knows. I was too busy trying to look cool, rather than looking up.
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