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Surreal Photos Of Abandoned, Snow-Filled Malls Show The Death Of An Era In America

More than two dozen malls across the country have closed since 2010, and another 60 are nearing their end. Many more are in swift decline, including, ironically, the mall where George Romero filmed Dawn of the Dead in 1975. The zombie mall may soon look post-apocalyptic in real life.

The decaying malls are also part of a larger shift; the suburban mall is just not a place that people want to hang out anymore. “Malls are nostalgic for me,” Lawless says. “Before social media and smartphones people went to the mall to talk to people. You just didn’t shop at these malls. It was a communal space.”