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Old 04-09-2019, 11:51 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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It must have been amazing in its heyday, but when I drove past it in the mid 1990s on trips from Hattiesburg to New Orleans, it was in decline.
https://www.nola.com/living/2017/01/...ns_341211.html
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Old 04-11-2019, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Louisiana
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I remember it when it was nice. Even had a skating rink.
Used to like having a beer at the food court and watching the skaters.
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Old 04-12-2019, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Louisiana and Pennsylvania
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I remember it very fondly. My mom took me there for the first time in the mid-70s and I didn't want to leave especially after seeing the ice rink. I had family that lived nearby and when i visited, guess where I went, lol. it was a really nice clean family place. There were also nearby businesses that thrived off of the mall traffic as well. It was a place your parents could drop you off and you would be safe.

I grew up in both BR and NO and we would spend weekend in N.O. Yeah, we had Cortana in Baton Rouge which opened a year later in '75 (now also gone, rather empty) but it was pale in comparison to Lake Forest.

I know over the years the surrounding area deteriorated and yes, the mall and the community began going downhill in the 90s, esp along Read Rd, Downman Rd and other areas. Incidentally, we were in town for a family event the week before Katrina and my cousins wanted to go to a nightclub that was in the Plaza but I declined, hence what would have been my last ever visit there. As we know, Katrina wiped out what was left, sadly.

Looking at that link, I remember a lot of those stores, now all out of business.

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Old 05-20-2019, 08:04 AM
 
Location: Gulf Coast
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Back in the Eighties, I loved when my parents drove me over from Mississippi and I could shop all the latest fashions at Maison Blanche. I recall getting a nice denim Guess? jacket there for Christmas 1985.


Last time I stopped there was around 2002 to meet some friends at a Chinese restaurant across from it.


I know the area has rebuilt since Katrina, but I wouldn't stop there now unless I had to!


https://expo.nola.com/erry-2018/04/b...ntage_pho.html
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Old 06-19-2019, 03:28 PM
 
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Is this the "Plaza?" I used to work there in high school and don't recall an ice rink.
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Old 07-21-2019, 08:10 PM
 
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Wow. Thank you for that stroll down memory lane. My Mother was quite excited to see a picture of her long ago good friend with the Indians huge display.

We loved Farrells. The mall was a wonderland at Xmas time. It was a really nice place to visit and shop and it's a crying shame that the thugs took over and destroyed it like they have ruined so much of our unique city.
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Old 07-21-2019, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Maybe the oil bust of the 1980s had something to do with the mall’s decline.
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Old 07-22-2019, 12:47 AM
 
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Maybe the oil bust of the 1980s had something to do with the mall’s decline.
Well of course you're right; that's has always been a perfectly good reason for thugs to have shoot-outs inside and mugging people outside in the parking lot.

You betcha!
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Old 09-13-2019, 02:43 PM
 
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I remember it when it was nice. Even had a skating rink.
Used to like having a beer at the food court and watching the skaters.
In the early Seventies, I'd been to Oakwood Mall on the West Bank (still the only thriving mall there), and to Lakeside a couple of times. But in '74 The Plaza seemed to me, a new SF reader, like Luna City in Heinlein or Clarke . . . that the mall we saw was the shopping district, and if you went through one of the big double doors you'd be in the residential area, and could find a place to rent a space suit and step out onto the lunar surface.

Malls generally have gotten boring for guys since those days. Ninety percent of the stores are now for women and children, or both. Dillard's still sells men's clothing, and now and then there's something of interest like a game room. But bookstores are gone, game and entertainment places like Spencer's are rare, an ice cream parlor like Farrell's is a misty memory. Food courts where herds of human buffalo graze, that's about it.
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