Overland Park, KS Metcalf South Shopping Center (a dead mall) light fixture
Straight out of 1967.
Metcalf South Shopping Center opened in 1967, and was one of the most popular malls in the Kansas City area. When we lived in Overland Park in the mid-1970s this place was hopping. My sister worked at the Woolworth's. It began to die in the 1980s after the Oak Park Mall opened up 3 miles away. Today it is probably one of the cleanest dead malls out there. The fountains all work except for one. My oldest son compared it to scenes from the recent movie "I Am Legend". Both he and my youngest were a bit freaked out by it.
Overland Park, KS Metcalf South Shopping Center (a dead mall) light fixture
Straight out of 1967.
Metcalf South Shopping Center opened in 1967, and was one of the most popular malls in the Kansas City area. When we lived in Overland Park in the mid-1970s this place was hopping. My sister worked at the Woolworth's. It began to die in the 1980s after the Oak Park Mall opened up 3 miles away. Today it is probably one of the cleanest dead malls out there. The fountains all work except for one. My oldest son compared it to scenes from the recent movie "I Am Legend". Both he and my youngest were a bit freaked out by it.