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L.C.
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Posted: 5/2/2014 8:43 PM
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I know we often joke about Akron malls, but I found these pictures online of an Akron Mall, and I don't see how this is much of a recruiting advantage.
Ryan Carey
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Posted: 5/3/2014 1:01 AM
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Cool photos, even if it's depressing!  Both were very nice malls I remember visiting as a kid.
Alan Swank
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Posted: 5/4/2014 11:10 AM
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As was City Center in downtown Columbus in its day.  Times change as do neighborhoods and people keep moving further and further out.  Polaris was farm land 10 years ago.
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Posted: 5/4/2014 12:07 PM
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The photos in Akron depict Rolling Acres Mall, which opened in the mid-1970s and was dying a quick death just 15 years later.  Part of the downfall was the extension and expansion of bus service to the mall, which almost immediately brought in a crowd of thugs. By the early 1990s people were getting assaulted on a regular basis in the parking lot.



 
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