[mburbank]

I quite enjoyed your article, Proto, both sections.

I'm quite a fan of the nearly abandoned mall. There was one at Rockingham Park in Salem New hampshire where my Dad lives. It's now a huge fancy ass bustling mall eight times as big as the old one, but the whole time I was in high school it just kind of soldiered on with only a handful of shops open. It also had an empty wishing pool, and it was really cold in winter.

Salem Mass, my home town has a small small that does very bad business concidering what a huge tourist town Salem is. It's doing realtively well these days, but when I first moved to town it was mostly empty, and all the plants were dead. Awesome.