{"id":14711,"date":"2015-12-11T02:07:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14711"},"modified":"2015-12-11T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:07:13","slug":"the-dead-pennrose-mall-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/11\/the-dead-pennrose-mall-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Pennrose Mall – Part #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reidsville’s Pennrose Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in the region and was popular when it opened. Now, it’s simply bizarre to see the shape that it’s in. In this PhotoCentral series, we’re going to take a detailed look at what the Pennrose Mall looks like now.<\/p>\n

It’s not going to be pretty.<\/p>\n

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We’ll begin our adventure at the mall entrance where JC Penney used to be.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t a promising start.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The outside wall of the mall facing the parking lot has signs of the stores in the mall. Or were in the mall. Now these signs are tombstones. Hair Under Construction & La Ezperanza are no longer with us.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jackson Hewitt moved out to a former bank location in the parking lot. Salty & Sweet was the final version of a Peanut Shack.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Well, darn. This mall entrance is locked. I’m betting I’m the first person over here in at least a month.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s the Pennrose Mall Nature Trail! No, it’s just a lot of overgrown brush.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Each mall store had an outside entrance for employees. This door could use some repair… if it mattered.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Roses is an original tenant of the mall and they’re still open. You can get a shopping cart easily because they’re piled up everywhere. And there hasn’t been an American flag on that pole in at least 5 years. The previous flag was so worn it was a bunch of cloth strips.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pennrose Mall’s front entrances have a lobby area for… um… I don’t know why. In this lobby area, you’ll find the plant racks for when Roses sells bedding plants and mums. Roses’ Toyland is now open, and they have toys that were popular back in the 1500’s.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s not grass, but it’s green. Mostly. We also have a mysterious tree stump. And more stray shopping carts, of course.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve just started to have fun and cry at the same time here at Reidsville’s Pennrose Mall. It gets better (or worse) in Part #2, and that’s coming soon here on SouthsideCentral.<\/p>\n

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Reidsville’s Pennrose Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in the region and was popular when it opened. Now, it’s simply bizarre to see the shape that it’s in. In this PhotoCentral series, we’re going to take a detailed look at what the Pennrose Mall looks like now.<\/p>\n

It’s not going to be pretty.<\/p>\n

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