>>9980965Valid. Because several generations before mall kids have that same nostalgia for ‘downtowns’ and ‘dime stores’. Also Department stores. Historically ‘general stores’.
>>9977656This is not new. You could basically say this about anything after the dawn of the industrial revolution and high volume mechanized production of goods. Laura Ingalls Wilder describes how ‘magical’ it was to go to town and to the General Store in her books. (1870’s)