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About Retailpocalypse
Retailpocalypse was born in December 2019, after my resignation from my long time home at www.deadmalls.com. Having documented, photographed and explored my way through the death throes of the American consumer culture since 2002, I decided to branch out on my own, and focus on the visual preservation of the golden age of the shopping mall era, among other things in relation. Whether it’s the still surviving conversational seating pits and artistic sculpture of a 70’s era shopping mall, or a look at that still classic Mansard McDonald’s, this site is meant to showcase what was, and what is continually left behind in the name of modernity. We strive to document, preserve and protect the memory of what these places meant to the communities they once thrived in.
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