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March 29, 2023 22 mins

WOAH, DUDES AND DUDETTES! Debbie Gibson is at THE MALL this weekend?! NO WAY?! WAY!

Get your bags and parachute pants on, cause Emi is taking you straight back in time to when the Mall was THE place to be! In this episode, we'll be talking about the history behind the popular destination, what you could find there, and, possibly, WHY it was so popular.


SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:


The rise and fall of the American Mall

By: Josh Harmon and Exa Zim

Bellis, Mary. "The History of the Shopping Mall." ThoughtCo, Sep. 27, 2021, thoughtco.com/history-of-shopping-malls-4071864.

Mall Culture in the 1980s

By: Alissa Ambrose

Mall stores of the '80s and '90s we miss: A look back

By: Stephanie Sadowski

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