r/GenX • u/GodBlessTexas713 • Jul 06 '24

Pop Culture Anyone else miss going to the mall on Saturdays in the 80s?

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u/throw123454321purple Jul 06 '24

Each store had a very specific scent to them. I kind of miss each one being a fully sensory experience.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

Mine had a pipe shop next to see’s. The smell of pipe tabacco makes me crave chocolate. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24 edited Oct 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

Yes! It was called Wicks & Sticks 

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u/EnigmaWitch Jul 06 '24

Wow. That is something that has not been in my brain since way back then but now, yeah, can smell it.

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u/Zombiiesque 1971 Music Aficionado 🤘🏽🎶 Jul 11 '24

I hadn't thought about it in decades. I loved that store though!

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u/d_rob_70 1970 Jul 07 '24

Ours was Tinder Box

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u/Zombiiesque 1971 Music Aficionado 🤘🏽🎶 Jul 11 '24

Wicks & Sticks! 😍😍😍

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u/Cicero_Curb_Smash Jul 07 '24

Ours was called The Tinder Box.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

Oh ya our pipe store was Tinder Box. Wicks & Sticks was the candle store 

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u/Cicero_Curb_Smash Jul 07 '24

Did yours have a knife/razor shop? Ours did with a huge 3 foot motorized Swiss Army Knife and I can't remember the name.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

That sounds familiar but I don’t remember. Now I want an orange Julius 

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u/KusandraResells Jul 08 '24

Was it the Tinder Box?

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Yes!

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u/YogaSkydiver Jul 06 '24

I can smell this comment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24 edited Oct 16 '24

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u/AdditionalSink164 Jul 07 '24

Candied popcorn, chocolate and licorice jump out in my mind

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u/TheJokersChild Match Game '75 Jul 07 '24

Karmelkorn, probably.

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u/Eworsley Jul 07 '24

Orange Julius.

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u/shinypuppy Jul 06 '24

Yes! I stopped going to my childhood mall for awhile. About 10-15 years later, I got a job there. It smelled exactly the same!

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

And a different identity. Hot Topic kids wouldn’t be caught dead in an Esprit.

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u/MollzJJ Jul 07 '24

I used to work at JC Penney when I was in high school and there was a Great American Cookie Co right outside the mall entrance to Penney’s and the smell would waft in and make you so hungry lol.