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Old 05-01-2017, 11:51 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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A victim of a changing neighborhood and the Wolfchase Galleria, it looks like it's gone now.


Interior demolition begins on Raleigh Springs Mall project | WREG.com

Interesting that the Southland Mall has held on for fifty years.
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Old 05-01-2017, 11:55 AM
 
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Was Raleigh once a good, middle class area? It seems weird that a poor working-class area with modest houses would have ever been able to support a mall.
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:07 PM
 
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Was Raleigh once a good, middle class area? It seems weird that a poor working-class area with modest houses would have ever been able to support a mall.
Back in the day Raleigh used to be a nice middle class neighborhood and was once associated with Bartlett, in the past 25-30 years or so Raleigh started to be associated with Frayser, there used to be lots of shopping and restaurants along the Austin Peay Highway like Red Lobster, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday's and Toys R Us, Raleigh's glory days had peaked sometime around the late 1980's/early 1990's.

Overall Raleigh is pretty tame compared to Frayser, North Memphis, South Memphis and Orange Mound.
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Old 05-01-2017, 12:15 PM
 
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The finished project looks good. Been waiting for this to finally happen.
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Old 05-01-2017, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Was Raleigh once a good, middle class area? It seems weird that a poor working-class area with modest houses would have ever been able to support a mall.
The mall was built in 1971, according to Wikipedia. So Raleigh must have been considered a prosperous neighborhood then.
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Old 05-01-2017, 03:39 PM
 
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Was Raleigh once a good, middle class area? It seems weird that a poor working-class area with modest houses would have ever been able to support a mall.
Raleigh was a good middle class area at one time. My family moved back to Memphis in 1980, and Raleigh was a nice area. We lived in a newer neighborhood with a clubhouse and a pool. I went to Brownsville Road for several years until bussing started, then my parents put us in private school to avoid the long bus route to another school. (We would have gone to Grahamwood though, so essentially we were being bussed from one good school to another).

My sister went from private school to Craigmont for middle school, and it was getting dicey by then. We ended up moving from Raleigh to Cordova, which had the same up and down trajectory, although it hasn't fallen as far.
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Old 05-01-2017, 04:49 PM
 
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It's a shame that Raleigh was annexed instead of incorporated. It would probably look much like Bartlett today if it had its own governance.
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