Most of the movies that played at this mall were stupid and trashy and terribly made. It was a rare screening that didn’t include the sound of bottles accidentally being dropped on the concrete floor and rolling slowly toward the front of the bowling alley –sized “auditorium.” My friends and I used to go there on Friday or Saturday nights to catch the midnight shows, which were raucous affairs. The only “respectable” business holdout was the movie theater, which showed films for a dollar. You’d see people having tailgate parties in the parking lot. On weekends you could sometimes buy freshly laid eggs and homemade tamales and churros there. People brought dogs and cats into the mall. Most of the spaces that normally would have held stores had been empty for years, but the pedestrian areas were open and filled with flea market –type stalls where people sold homemade and used goods. Michael Gibson/FXĭuring high school and college I used to go to a decrepit mall on the other side of town. THE STRAIN – Pictured: (L-R) Sean Astin as Jim Kent, Mia Maestro as Nora Martinez, Cory Stoll as Ephraim Goodweather.
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