Faded Attraction


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Faded Attraction

Many customers shopped at the mall in its early years. Yet by the late 1970s, the novelty wore off and the mall slowly became more and more deserted. After the largest department stores moved to the suburbs, several women told city officials they no longer felt safe shopping on Austin Avenue because of how empty it was.


This file appears in: Austin Avenue Pedestrian Mall