The Best Dead Mall in America:
A Photographic Documentation and Indefinite Installation
Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, Illinois.
From the outside the general form of the mall appears intact, and all of the rambling megastructure is still standing and is navigable. Faceted facades and colored wall treatments subtly echo the anchor stores at the ends (that type of brick – must have been a Sears; those vertical stylings – Montgomery Ward?). The shape of the structure is more difficult to discern than it once was, as a new growth forest of trees is doing well in the parking lot, plazas, and alcoves around the outside of the building, breaking through asphalt, and overgrowing out of planters. Behind the rusty cyclone, the garden center has finally gone to seed. Inside, is a terrarium of decay…
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