Same experience. Loved going to "The Mall" as a teen for all the usual reasons. It was also a great place for cultural discovery in the pre-internet era. Cheap

Same experience. Loved going to "The Mall" as a teen for all the usual reasons. It was also a great place for cultural discovery in the pre-internet era. Cheap music samplers at Hot Topic probably changed my life. Heck, I first tasted lamb at a food court gyro stand. And teens need brick and mortar clothing stores because their bodies, clothing needs and tastes are changing. As a man in my 30s, malls just don't have much to offer. Certainly I'm not going to go to socialize. I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. I have better ways to find books and music. And a lot of mall clothes seem geared to teens, logically enough, so just not very useful to me.