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Originally Posted by Syndic
My friends and I all used to have our parents drop us off there in the 90's and we'd just hang out there for hours; buying CD's, clothes, giant slices of pizza from Cozzoli's (we really never ate anything else). It was the fun thing to do when we were like 12-13 years old. I'm definitely nostalgic about it. I don't really care for "glitzy", austlar1. In fact, I find it kind of disgusting. Highland Mall was the humble, warm, comfortable epicenter of life in north Austin and I'm a north Austin kid deep in my soul.
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I feel your pain, but I do not miss Highland Mall. When I was a kid we still went DOWNTOWN to shop and hang out. This was Fort Worth in the 1950s and early 60s. We usually got there by riding the bus!! Actually, I kind of hate all shopping malls, but I will admit to getting into the spirit of things when I used to live in the vicinity of a few high voltage malls like Tyson's Corner in DC or Lenox Square in Atlanta. They were the equally warm but far less humble epicenters of life in Northern Virginia and Buckhead/Atlanta. I am sure that Dallas and Houston folks of a certain age developed the warm fuzzies for NorthPark or Galleria, and Fort Worth kids from your era probably got all stoked about Hulen Mall or Ridgmar both of which are from the same era as Highland Mall and equally depressing IMHO.