What the fuck is a galleria?

What the fuck is a galleria?

A shopping mall you dumb fuck zoomer

Shopping mall. We don't go to those places anymore. Not since the dark times.

Shopping mall

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

When I was a kid, they had waitresses and stuff rollerskating inside the mall

A Greek style place where boys bathe in front of an audience.

a female gallery

No, that's a Gay Area.

pic rel

i feel so blessed to have had this

mfw walking the mall w/some friends and i meet some other friends randomly and feel super popular :3

this is what they took from you

The Sherman Oaks Galleria. Lots of mall scenes get filmed there for decades now.

Looks like fast times at ridgemont for sure.

The man who invented malls was a genius

Hey you see all those store ? Let's put them all in the same big building

And don't make it a warehouse, make it beautiful

Some people shit on malls but the idea of a centralized shopping area that was indoors, climate controlled, and offered plenty of free parking would have been incredible if all you'd had known before then was going downtown and paying to park by the minute in whatever the weather was.

Nobody invented shopping malls, as the name "Galleria" suggests, they are just modern versions of european enclosed shopping centers

i love malls so much bros i wish I was allowed to rollerblade in them

A relic from a better time.

I live by 3 busy active shopping malls.
Move out of the sticks people.

Malls still exist in Europe. Do Americans really not have them anymore?

it's not there anymore it's now an outdoor mall with some shitty chain restaurants and a movie theater. i had comfy teenage vibes there but it's not the same place as in fast times anymore

It is

Commando did that epic action sequence in it too

based. fuck the outside world.

We have Amazon prime.

nice try demetrius!

That sucks bro

I knew it had been remodeled but I didn't know it got torn down and gentrified

do you need to buy weave? then no we don't have them anymore

In China you can rent them overnight for huge airsoft battles.

No, also we have transsexual Pizza Hut buildings (You Will Always be a Pizza Hut Building).

I found a place in Girard Ohio recently called past times that really took me back. It’s this huge retro arcade and they even have the record for largest collection of pinball machines. Even the prices were reasonable. All the games were set to free play and you just pay 20 bucks for a wristband that lets you come and go for the entire day. They even had a little old school cafe area where you could get fries and nachos and glass bottles of soda and even that shit was reasonable. I know it sounds like I’m advertising right now but it really was just very refreshing. If I lived there I would just smoke legal weed and spend all my time at that place.

We still have them but most of them are usually in pretty bad shape because they have trouble keeping stores. Some are still nice because the owners actually give a shit but it’s a rare find.

The regional & super-regional malls are still doing fine. The competition from online sales doomed the smaller malls though.

there's things about it being outdoor i like, was too oyung when it changed to remember the galleria as an indoor mall so nothing to miss, i feel bad for older people. i no longer live in la i moved to nyc and trust me worse things have happened to LA in the past five years than the galleria's change

Who knew that girl would grow up to be a ''big'' star.

ironically us walkable city eurochads are keeping the shopping mall alive

is that where all the refugees live?

Why didn't John simply hide in the hull of the Santa Maria at his local galleria?

Seems like the guy that started the trend was just somebody that realized if you live in the bumfuck arctic you need the shops indoors.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_(Luleå)

Why didn't he just hide on the galleria's roller coaster?

If you like malls you should move to Hong Kong. Apartment blocks feeding right into a mall, right into the MTR. The whole place is like one big airconditioned mall.

I’d move to fucking Kowloon if it were still there. Whatever was going on in there can’t be worse than out here.

.m.

Fuck off

why not just upload the phone directory directly into the T1000?

No that's the janitor discord

literally tailor made for black youth to hang out in and slowly drive out business even after the "individuals under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult after 4PM"

Can the T-1000 safely ride a waterslide? Perfect hiding place desu!

Malls are still fun to go and walk around in. Then when you see something cool you just pull out your phone and order it off amazon for $30 cheaper.

Of course we do. Even in run down cities we still have malls.

Hahahaha! I lived my life in arcades and got the reference but never heard anybody call it a "galleria". I can't explain any of that.

It's like calling "bags" cornhole. Or "pop" soda.

Do you guys really not have shopping malls where you live? I've only been in small towns without them. Had 2 malls within 20 minute drive most places I've lived

There are a few within 30 miles of me but I almost never go because they have the same chains of stores as every other mall

Oh wow American Eagle

Oh wow Hot Topic

Oh wow Foot Locker

oh I remember arnold bulldozing through that place in Commando

I am from Connecticut. There are a bunch of them in the area, but most are dying. There's actually some total scumbag realty group called Namdar buying them up and running them into the ground, not fixing anything, letting them fall apart. Crazy a few are still open with the state they are in. It's sad, I do really like them and miss their good old days. It seems like some are doing well in certain places, but my impression is that overall many are closing or doing badly across most of America, or at least that is my impression. But I keep hearing they are doing great in other countries like China/HK. Sad to see so many of these once huge, lively places slowly dying.

That's a fake ass bump if I've ever saw one. Go watch T1: Slutment Day

Hot Topic was solely responsible for giving me a goth girl fetish on highschool.

Based fellow .m. hater

And don't make it a warehouse, make it beautiful

Well they mostly do look like it from the outside.

Never really understood that one desu.

fuck i miss incandescent light bulbs
zoomers have literally no idea how much soul was removed from the world when they were replaced with modern lighting

there's a huge one near me

Aussie gen x here.
Never heard "galleria" anywhere in my life except this movie, and until today i didn't know what the fuck it was.

That's not even huge.

I’m pretty sure it’s a boomer arcade.

Do Americans really not have them anymore?

american malls came into existance due to a tax loophole. the scammers sold when it got closed and the new owners found out that malls have high running costs. that's why they now all look so old and new malls are those outdoor outlet malls.

What tax loophole? I’m pretty sure Amazon was the biggest factor.

I’m pretty sure Amazon was the biggest factor.

Good question. Waiting to hear his bullshit answer. But Amazon had literally ZERO to do with malls failing. Online shopping can be blamed for a million other things, but don't confuse cause and effect.

that picture is just a tiny section of it

1954 law

pay less income tax by counting depreciation of factory machinery, allowed for something called "sum-of-the-years'-digits accelerated depreciation"

All the running costs, malls are expensive, were tax free.

changed in 1968

changed to make it worse in 1981

Malls got sold to idiot investors in the 80s, who then has to invest huge sums to save their investment. That's why you have all those mall movies from the 80s. Malls were shiny and newly renovated then.
But costs caught up to them, long before Amazon was a thing. At best Amazon was a nail in the coffin.

I immediately regretted posting that. Like I was lording one mall over another.

I actually don't even consider huge malls to be actual malls. Chicago, Mall of America, etc. were just fucking gimmicks ripping off OG malls. Strip malls? Same thing.

Mallrats is a shit movie, but I'd fuck prime Joey Lauren Adams over any actress in the world. Oh, but yeah, that's a great time capsule about malls. Just fast forward past the psychic with the triple nipple. It's gross.

it's the 5th largest in the uk and the 7th largest in europe

That's fine. It's not a dick measuring contest. And you actually just prove my point above. The idea of a "super mall" was stolen from America.

America? Fuck them!

We're the reason this thread even exists. That ones gonna be a brain teaser. But I'll give you a hint: television and film.

Dumbass

third worlder here Never heard "galleria" anywhere in my life

ok??
and??

The idea of a "super mall" was stolen from America.

an austrian immigrant invented it and your country is too shitty now to sustain them lol so well done i guess

I miss White America

Big box strip mall centers are the new malls.

I don't think you can invent "a big building with a bunch of stores in it".

the kinoplex?

"Excuse me, do you kids happen to have a picture of John Conner naked?"

I like the one in SanFran.

as someone who has never hung out in a mall, what used to be the appeal of doing so?

It's the name of the mall. Are you fucking dense?

The American mall problem is a simple one. They are built as destinations instead of being built for convenience.
Nobody wants to go to a mall anymore so they are dying off. Malls built for convenience are doing just fine.

look above you

It's the name of the mall. Are you fucking dense?

True on both counts.

But it's also a cliche name for a mall. They were all named Gallerias before culture decided on "mall". They simplified it for retarded asswipes like you.

Do you really want me to blow your brains out? Malls is short for Mallerias. It was changed to signify that it's not an actual Galleria (big) but smaller, less expensive and more personal.

I'll school you some more, if you want, but I'd rather you just stop acting like you're better than anyone on fucking Anon Babble and be nice.

Your peers were all there. It’s just one of the places people gathered to eat, talk, play games, and flirt before social media companies figured out how to make a profit by destroying human civilization.

kino

Isn't that one mostly vacant now?

They are built as destinations instead of being built for convenience.

Nobody wants to go to a mall anymore so they are dying off. Malls built for convenience are doing just fine.

What the fuck are you talking about

T2 is my favorite movie of all time

finally watch it with my zoomer gf of two years

get to the mental hospital scene and she demands I turn it off

"You know anon, this movie isn't good for people with mental health disorders. Blah blah blah only in a movie would something like this happen with her being correct about her delusions. It makes the system look incorrect or something"

And that's when I realized I'd rather have a boyfriend. Thanks Terminator 2

iToddler

Retarded

Every time

Ignorant chinaman is ignorant and asian

Im shocked

This. There's actually a dozen well said hot takes in this thread. That's why it's such a good discussion. For those in the know or those not in the know.

Shopping malls were a fad. That's the most basic answer. It's why we anons question why they still exist. If there's a place in the world that malls are the main attraction, you need to fucking move.

You posted a bait thread with a retarded question, you don't get to school anyone.

What the fuck is a galleria?

Polish mall

Shopping malls are basically gangbanger rendezvous points in California. I don’t let my wife go there alone.

I've got one like that near me but 3 stories. New jersey American dream mall

the first 5 minute of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Chopping Mall also

Replaced by Amazon ebay and online porn

The man who invented malls was a genius

this is true. i forget his name but he is really famous with marketing specialist

when i went to los angeles they still do and they were awesome it looks like the ones posted here. now that im back in my shitty country i appreciate them, they yankees have it good