a request for you chicagoland types (dated materials!)

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they're finally tearing down the long-abandoned dixie square mall in harvey, illinois -- possibly in the next few days. if you're brave and have a camera, get down there and document whatever you can before the place is gone forever (and replaced with shiny new retail stores). do it for jake and elwood.

(i'm glad there are development plans for the property; i'm just a land-use/urban-exploration geek, is all.)

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

stop by the record store while you're at it:

http://www.ccrocks.net/images/DS-Dixie_Music_Store-_BlockC13.jpg

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

best dixie pics i've seen yet: http://www.geocities.com/chucksphotospot/dsmall1.html (page 2 is my favorite)

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

bump

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents are in town, maybe we should make this a family road trip.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Albeit a highly confusing one for my parents.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit. You need a car for that one, I'm not sure which weekend buses go there.

That thing has been sitting there forever. My high school bus used to go past it.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hm, i can't make it down there in the next few days,but this is the sort of thing i'd like to do.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone who goes down there should be careful. I've been cut up before, poking around in abandoned sites. I always think of Richard Nickel and shudder.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too bad - a lot of the graphics and signs do probably have some historical value.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone who goes down there should be careful. I've been cut up before, poking around in abandoned sites.

definitely -- watch out for rust, asbestos, vermin, bats, as well as the expected structural weaknesses that occur when buildings incur sustained weather damage. i've been talking to someone who tried to climb an escalator in the mall and fell into a cold dark puddle of godknowswhat, and she got fiberglass splinters in her legs.

but if you exercise common sense, you should be fine.

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

and this is urgent and key: bring a flashlight.

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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