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Ron Paul Fan On Malls, RadioheadThere’s an op-ed in today’s Inquirer predicting the demise of the mall; the writer seems to be under the impression that Americans are now cutting back on spending and will no longer shop-’til-they-drop at giant monuments to suburban sprawl. Anyway, it has one of the best comments I’ve ever read on a Philly.com article, and I’d like to share it with you now. This might be my favorite comment of all time, actually, especially if it’s real.
Ron Paul fans: Tough on malls, soft on Radiohead. Also: Oxford Valley Mall isn’t so bad. Has this person ever been to Neshaminy? While it does have Café Riviera, I can assure you the Oxford Valley Mall is much, much nicer. A grim future for the all-American mall [Inquirer] |
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In high school I would go to the OVM just to watch the rich suburban kids try to act ghetto. I’m pretty sure a movie executive went there for the starbucks and wrote the entire script to Malibu’s Most Wanted before he was done with his coffee.
I used to work in Langhorne and have been to both malls. Both are dives.
Neshaminy is much, much worse. Soul-crushing at times, yet still better than Plymouth-Meeting.
Neshaminy is older, I believe, and as such is now the lower-rent mall. Oxford Valley tries too hard to be King of Prussia (note: I don’t really know what this means) but the stores are just not all that good.
You can usually tell if a mall is more upscale if it has a Bloomingdale’s instead of a Macy’s. If it has a Boscov’s as an anchor (like Neshaminy did, I dunno if they still do), it’s even lower on the scale.
Personally, I like Willow Grove. I like Franklin Mills the best, but that’s because of comedy value. Mills, of course, has Steve & Barry’s as an anchor.
Actually, Neshaminy was built by Korman, if I recall correctly. Figures.