{"id":14717,"date":"2015-12-11T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T03:29:03","slug":"the-dead-pennrose-mall-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/11\/the-dead-pennrose-mall-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Pennrose Mall \u2013 Part #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Part #3 of our PhotoCentral series on Reidsville’s mostly-deceased Pennrose Mall<\/a>, we had signs of life with Roses & Bob Adams Florist. Let’s return to our journey of doom & gloom in Part #4.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the links to the previously published article in this series: Part #1<\/a> – Part #2<\/a> – Part #3<\/a><\/p>\n

Buckle up, kiddies. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

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Bob Adams Florist is using the vacant (hell, almost everything is vacant here) old Kidz Zone location for display and storage space. That means just leaving flower arrangements on the floor, so it seems.<\/p><\/div>\n

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What used to be Hibbett Sports used to be an Eckerd Drugs that had a lunch counter. Hibbett Sports bailed out to a Freeway Dr. location a few years ago. As you can see, I went ahead and fired my shotgun multiple times at the ceiling. Not really, but it looks that way and nobody sure as hell would have cared if I had fired a shotgun here.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Even the fake plants are looking droopy here. I’m assuming somebody waters the real plants. Or maybe they just move them under leaks in the roof.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oh, there’s so much to talk about in this photo. We’ve got the chained-down gumball machines (complete with petrified gumballs), the planters that are oddly placed just to impede any foot traffic (what foot traffic?) and the coin-operated carousel. Please note that the floor in front of the carousel has a stain that may or not be dried vomit from the terrifying ride.<\/p><\/div>\n

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One-Stop Cellular. At least the sign is still in excellent condition. Let’s take a look at that stuff inside the store area. Oh yeah, this space is for rent!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s some of the crap that is for sale inside the dead One-Stop Cellular location. We’ve got some lamps, some crap, some Modelo beer promotional items, some crap, some paintings and also some more crap. If you want to buy some of this crap, forget it! There’s no explanation why this junk is inside the store.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As we move down from the dead One Stop Cellular location, we find this dead store with foil Christmas wrapping paper covering the doors, more assorted crap that you can’t buy (or would want to buy) in the display window, and two glass doors just sitting out. If you had a need for a glass door, nothing is here to stop you from taking one.<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s it! I’ve had enough! I’m going down the hall to the Pennrose Mall Management Office and demand some answers about why this mall has fell apart!<\/p>\n

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This is not a promising start on my quest for answers. No, I didn’t kick in the fake wooden window.<\/p><\/div>\n

Will I make it to the Pennrose Mall management office? Will I get the answers that I’m demanding? Why should anybody care?<\/p>\n

Those answers are coming up in Part #5 of our surreal journey… here on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Part #3 of our PhotoCentral series on Reidsville’s mostly-deceased Pennrose Mall, we had signs of life with Roses & Bob Adams Florist. Let’s return to our journey of doom & gloom in Part #4.<\/p>\n

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