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Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Holiday Cheers Dude ()
Date: December 18, 2013 10:39AM

It wasn't just gangbangers who brought upon the decline of Springfield. I remember from 1995-2000, all young people hung out at the malls. At Springfield you had preps, goths, gangbangers, jocks congregating there on weekends. Springfield was just as crowded as Tysons Center. Kids and young adults really don't "hang" out at the mall anymore, but instead are replaced by shopoholic soccer moms who wouldn't be interested in Another Universe, Up Against the Wall, Time-Out, Hong Kong, etc..

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: UNDSX ()
Date: December 18, 2013 10:41AM

Holiday Cheers Dude Wrote:
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> It wasn't just gangbangers who brought upon the
> decline of Springfield. I remember from 1995-2000,
> all young people hung out at the malls. At
> Springfield you had preps, goths, gangbangers,
> jocks congregating there on weekends. Springfield
> was just as crowded as Tysons Center. Kids and
> young adults really don't "hang" out at the mall
> anymore, but instead are replaced by shopoholic
> soccer moms who wouldn't be interested in Another
> Universe, Up Against the Wall, Time-Out, Hong
> Kong, etc..

Back then, along with the cool knickknack stores, Springfield also had mid-tier stores like Armani Exchange, Structure, Discovery Store, etc..

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: bbbeeeker ()
Date: December 18, 2013 03:11PM

That's before the internet came to play dude...and fact Springfield Mall sucked back then too......It was never good since 85

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Old in FFC ()
Date: December 18, 2013 03:39PM

Springfeild Mall was always horrible. In the early 80's it had one of the worst crime records for any mall in VA. Lots of fights and assults in the parking lots and shoplifting inside.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Dem Blacks ()
Date: December 18, 2013 04:10PM

Old in FFC Wrote:
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> Springfeild Mall was always horrible. In the
> early 80's it had one of the worst crime records
> for any mall in VA. Lots of fights and assults in
> the parking lots and shoplifting inside.


Damn Blacks...they ruin everything

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: horny dude ()
Date: December 18, 2013 04:23PM

Where were the gangbangs? I went to Springfield Mall in the 80's and 90's and never saw any gangbangs.


(keep your California lingo out of here.)

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: what? ()
Date: December 19, 2013 07:18AM

It wasnt that bad, people on this site are just afraid of everything

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: English as a 2nd language ()
Date: December 19, 2013 09:41AM

It is unless of course he speak any language other than English. You should have to learn the language if you want to live here.

If I go anywhere else in the world to live, I would have to learn the language if something other than English.

Why not here? Because we don't want to offend anyone.

Bunch of liberal babies.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Donay ()
Date: July 26, 2014 12:14AM

Your a rasist bigget!

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: 703.Jihadist ()
Date: July 26, 2014 12:16AM

Uh no. No it didn't. At NO TIME did Springfield Mall ever catch a whiff of Tysons' jock...

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: clueless ()
Date: July 26, 2014 02:54AM

During mid to late 90s, Springfield Mall was packed. More so than Tysons.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Geek Girl ()
Date: July 26, 2014 05:05PM

Another Universe + Nature Company + Suncoast + book store + Frederick's of Hollywood + Time-Out + various clothing stores not run by Christian Sweatshop Koreans + early Hot Topic before emo usurped goth shit and made it stupid + movie theater + random stores that would come and go like the one anime store + early Wizards of the Coast = best mall ever.

Only cool thing Tysons had was The Museum Store.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: GBW ()
Date: July 26, 2014 07:54PM

clueless Wrote:
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> During mid to late 90s, Springfield Mall was
> packed. More so than Tysons.


Kids and young adults do not bring the income needed to support a mall. Buying an Orange Julius and a hot dog, buying a tape/cd/album and maybe a shirt is not going to keep a mall going. Malls rely on people spending serious money (furniture, high end clothing, high end jewelry, appliances etc.) and this did not happen at Springfield Mall and that is why it closed.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: clueless ()
Date: July 26, 2014 09:10PM

GBW Wrote:
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> clueless Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > During mid to late 90s, Springfield Mall was
> > packed. More so than Tysons.
>
>
> Kids and young adults do not bring the income
> needed to support a mall. Buying an Orange Julius
> and a hot dog, buying a tape/cd/album and maybe a
> shirt is not going to keep a mall going. Malls
> rely on people spending serious money (furniture,
> high end clothing, high end jewelry, appliances
> etc.) and this did not happen at Springfield Mall
> and that is why it closed.

How many people buy a dishwasher at a Sears anchor at a mall? Springfield Mall during the mid to late 90s not only had niche stores, but also jewelry shops and Macy's. Even with all the teens hanging around. Let's compare 1998 Springfield Mall to Tysons. Tysons had the more upscale stores but Springfield actually had quite a few more people roaming its halls. Tysons did not have that AMC, Barnes, Food court wing. It was JCPennys back then. I think it was all the violence inside and outside Springfield Mall that gradually turned patrons off.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: kdoubledmf ()
Date: July 27, 2014 09:24AM

Springfield Mall in 2000 was one step below Potomac Mills Mall and that is some sad shit.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Donay's Teacher ()
Date: July 27, 2014 10:14AM

Donay Wrote:
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> Your a rasist bigget!

Did you mean "racist baguette" or "racist spigot"? I'm confused.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Annandalian ()
Date: July 27, 2014 10:27AM

You're thinking of Fair Oaks or Landmark. Springfield Mall? You might have to go back to the 70s.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: clueless ()
Date: July 27, 2014 11:07AM

No I'm thinking of Springfield Mall of the 90s. The one with the filled up parking and insane crowds on the weekends. It was actually more crowded than Tysons I at the time.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: July 27, 2014 11:21AM

kdoubledmf Wrote:
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> Springfield Mall in 2000 was one step below
> Potomac Mills Mall and that is some sad shit.

An astonishingly ignorant statement. There was a time when people travelled to shopping destinations. Tysons and Potomac Mills were often near the top of the list. At one time not too long ago Potomac Mills was the top tourist destination in Virginia.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: bill n is cray cray ()
Date: July 27, 2014 11:49PM

Bill, the Great Smokies national park in TN is the most visited national park in the US. Does that mean it is the best NP in the US? You are one dumb SOB. In addition, the comment you quote in your stupid post is saying that Springfield mall was a step below PM mall which by what you are saying, you agree with. Total clown comment, Bro.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Leroy Jenkins ()
Date: July 29, 2014 01:25PM

Bill N. got powned.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: springfieldmallz ()
Date: July 29, 2014 01:51PM

The place got bad when they built the parking garages, before the metro. Lots of assaults and robbery reports starting from there. Place will still be a joke. Nice pretty mall inside, yet still surrounded by shitville.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: July 29, 2014 02:53PM

bill n is cray cray Wrote:
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> Bill, the Great Smokies national park in TN is the
> most visited national park in the US. Does that
> mean it is the best NP in the US? You are one
> dumb SOB. In addition, the comment you quote in
> your stupid post is saying that Springfield mall
> was a step below PM mall which by what you are
> saying, you agree with.

I never said I agreed that Springfield Mall was a step below Potomac Mills. I would put it below Fair Oaks which I would put below Tysons and Potomac Mills. Springfield Mall was where people in certain parts of the immediate area would go to shop, for entertainment or more rarely to dine, because it was the most convenient place for them to go. It performed that function well. Potomac Mills and Tysons were shopping destinations which lured people from outside of the area as well as local shoppers, much as Lancaster's outlets and the Williamsburg Pottery Factory and Mall of America did.

Is Smokey Mountain the best national park? I visited it twice and liked it both times. It is not my favorite. I believe the Blue Ridge Parkway usually outdraws it. Both of these do illustrate the same point. They are located relatively close to major population centers and travel routes, making them relatively accessible to many people. Many of the park units out west are located much further from population centers, so it is a bigger deal to travel there. Now which mall does that sound like?

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bill is a transplant ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:05PM

Bill is a transplant.
Pay no attention to him.
Bill knows nothing about this area further back than 1998.
Bill moved here less than 15 years ago.
He wasn't living here when Princess Diana came not to Fair Oaks, not to Tysons, not to Potomac Mills but she came to Springfield Mall.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Where are you at Bill? ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:14PM

http://youtu.be/4LB03Lhw-Ag?t=57s

Where were you at in 1985 Bill?

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:28PM

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.

TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.

TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT ARCADE WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL LOOKING FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.

SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER


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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: dude, it's a mall ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:35PM

whoa big murther furking fontz!!!!11!

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bones Brigade ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:35PM

I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY Wrote:
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>

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.
>
> TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.
>
> TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT ARCADE
> WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL LOOKING
> FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER




You left out the skate park across the street from Springfield Mall! The Mall Wall.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: NO. NO, YOU WEREN'T! ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:37PM

I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY Wrote:
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>

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.
>
> TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.
>
> TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT ARCADE
> WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL LOOKING
> FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER



And yet...
Springfield Mall became a Mad Maxian shithole and sat desolate for nearly 15 years while Tysons has continued to thrive and is now one of the top5 retail draws on the East Coast.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: I DON'T SKATE ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:44PM

Bones Brigade Wrote:
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> I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES
> >
> > SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.
> >
> > SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.
> >
> > TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.
> >
> > TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT
> ARCADE
> > WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL
> LOOKING
> > FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.
> >
> > SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER


>
>
> You left out the skate park across the street from
> Springfield Mall! The Mall Wall.

I DON'T SKATE. THEN OR NOW


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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: The History of Malls ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:47PM

Tysons was merely the first regional mall. Its precursors were Parkington and Seven Corners -- places that drew from more than just a few neighborhoods, but didn't reach regional levels. The success of Tysons and growing metro populations soon led to many more malls like Tysons scattered first around the Beltway, and then out 66, 95, and 270 into to the growing outer suburbs. They were basically all the same mall. People regularly shopped at the mall that was closest to them, occasionally driving off to the next one down the line for some specialty store or item. As such, what drove the slow evolution of malls was the slow evolution of regional populations.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bones Brigade ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:48PM

I DON'T SKATE Wrote:
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> Bones Brigade Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > >

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES
> > >
> > > SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.
> > >
> > > SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.
> > >
> > > TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.
> > >
> > > TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT
> > ARCADE
> > > WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL
> > LOOKING
> > > FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.
> > >
> > > SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER


> >
> >
> > You left out the skate park across the street
> from
> > Springfield Mall! The Mall Wall.
>
>

I DON'T SKATE. THEN OR NOW



Do you still ride indoor carousels?


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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Oldtime ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:49PM

Geek Girl Wrote:
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> Another Universe + Nature Company + Suncoast +
> book store + Frederick's of Hollywood + Time-Out +
> various clothing stores not run by Christian
> Sweatshop Koreans + early Hot Topic before emo
> usurped goth shit and made it stupid + movie
> theater + random stores that would come and go
> like the one anime store + early Wizards of the
> Coast = best mall ever.
>
> Only cool thing Tysons had was The Museum Store.
This version of Springfield Mall was the best ever. Not so much later on...

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: spic spotter ()
Date: July 29, 2014 03:52PM

I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY Wrote:
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>

SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 3 VIDEO GAME ARCADES
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD 2 MOVIE THEATERS.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL HAD AN INDOOR CAROUSEL.
>
> TYSONS CORNER HAD NONE OF THE ABOVE.
>
> TYSONS CORNER ONLY HAD 1 PIECE OF SHIT TILT ARCADE
> WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD BE ON THE PROWL LOOKING
> FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO RAPE.
>
> SPRINGFIELD MALL > TYSON'S CORNER




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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: What a wonderful place. NOT!!!!! ()
Date: July 29, 2014 04:34PM

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Looks and sounds like a wonderful place to drop off your kids for the afternoon during the 1990s doesn't it?


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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: No Place Is Crime-free ()
Date: July 29, 2014 04:47PM

It was indeed a wonderful place to drop off your kids for the afternoon during the 1990s. Which is why thousands upon thousand of area parents did just that.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: THE TRUTH. DEAL WITH IT. ()
Date: July 29, 2014 04:53PM

Springfield Mall was superior to Tyson's Corner Center during the 1990s.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Miller Lite ()
Date: July 29, 2014 06:29PM

Tastes great! Less filling! Tastes great! Less filling!

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: July 29, 2014 06:30PM

THE TRUTH. DEAL WITH IT. Wrote:
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> Springfield Mall was superior to Tyson's Corner
> Center during the 1990s.

By what standard? Are you arguing that kid and teen non-shopping entertainment options are the basis for an overall ranking of shopping malls as I WAS THERE BACK IN THE DAY suggests? If so then I would agree that Springfield Mall was superior to Tysons. I just don't agree that is the appropriate criteria to rank malls.

About the Princess Di visit. Charles and Diana went to a J.C. Penny which happened to be at Springfield Mall to promote a large amount of British merchandise that J.C. Penny had bought while they were visiting D.C. They also went to Springfield Mall because they were visiting a drug rehab facility nearby in Springfield. There is a YouTube video on that D.C. trip.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Used to work in Springfield Mall ()
Date: December 24, 2014 11:57AM

Every mall will have people looking to prey on the unsuspecting. Springfield used to be great before the Metro rail opened up the station there in 1997. The subway as convenient as it is also brings in the undesirables who more often than not have nothing better to do than loiter and look for an easy score.

I quit working in Hudson Trail Outfitters (the log cabin looking store) when I started fearing for my life leaving late at night after the store closed. Carrying a bank bag full of the deposit didn't help. Oh and when I came in to work the day I quit, one of the escalators was police taped off and there was a big pink stain on the floor. Aparently there had been a gang related stabbing the night prior...

Just saying I thought of Springfield mall as one of the only true malls in the area with stores and entertainment venues to cater to everyone. Alas the era of malls is coming to a close.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: whitemansburboun ()
Date: December 28, 2014 12:36AM

With the metro now reaching Tysons its even more ghetto. Have you ppl left the metro area? The northeast is a shithole. The whiter you live, the better. Should be obvious to all by now. I even have nig friends that say the same.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Vm7xX ()
Date: December 28, 2014 05:49PM

what? Wrote:
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> It wasnt that bad, people on this site are just
> afraid of everything

They are also stupid and think it's cool to put everything down. They don't realize how small that makes them seem.

In fact, Tysons and Springfield were a lot alike in the 80's and early 90's. More similarities than differences. I lived closer to Tysons at the time, so that's where I usually went, but Springfield had some stores that Tysons did not, and I liked to stop in for some pinball as well. I had some supple wrists back in the day.

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: hornier dude ()
Date: December 28, 2014 05:56PM

horny dude Wrote:
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> Where were the gangbangs? I went to Springfield
> Mall in the 80's and 90's and never saw any
> gangbangs.
>
>
>



Yeah, where the fuck were the "gangbangs?" I would have loved to run trains on some whores back then! lol

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Re: Springfield Mall used to rival Tysons Corner in the mid to late 90s.
Posted by: Vm7xX ()
Date: December 28, 2014 05:59PM

whitemansburboun Wrote:
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> With the metro now reaching Tysons its even more
> ghetto. Have you ppl left the metro area? The
> northeast is a shithole. The whiter you live, the
> better. Should be obvious to all by now. I even
> have nig friends that say the same.

This report was submitted by a "small" person. Very "small".

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