Documenting The Forgotten Malls Of Yesteryear
13 May 2002 - 9:00am
A New York duo spends its weekends tracking down dead and dying commercial centers.
Peter Blackbird and Brian Florence drive around to direlict malls, documenting them for their website, www.deadmalls.com."'I want to try and preserve what they were,' said Blackbird, who concedes he loves the old-style malls that seem dated but were once cool places to hang out. 'I'm a product of my generation.' For each center they visit, they try to gather names of stores that had been there and talk to local residents about their memories of the place."
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 10, 2002
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