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@jonrev.com
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Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani.
Infodumps about dead malls/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...

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[jonrevProjects] @jonrev.com · Sep 12
📍 the jonrev projects encompass 20+ years of exploring, digitally preserving and infodumping about dead malls, commercial architecture, abandoned buildings and other such places of memories.

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Photograph. A gray brick building looms through the windshield of a 1980s Pontiac Fiero at blue hour. Signage on the building reads "Carson Pirie Scott" - a defunct department store. North Riverside Park Mall North Riverside, Illinois Photograph. An empty bilevel shopping mall. A large, vacant food court is seen on the lower level. Stratford Square Bloomingdale, Illinois Photograph. An abandoned bilevel shopping mall reflecting 1970s contemporary tastes, featuring brutalist ceilings, wood and smoked glass accents, conversation pit seating flanked by (overgrown) gardens, and a large public art sculpture. Lakeside Mall Sterling Heights, Michigan Photograph. An abandoned Sears department store at twilight, the labelscar of the SEARS letters is visible on five concrete columns separated from a brick building, behind. Sears, Salem Mall Trotwood, Ohio
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Blockbuster Video
Coffeyville, KS
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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retailpocalypse.bsky.social
Hey Netflix.. I have some other purchase ideas...

#strangerthings #starcourtmall #georgia #atlanta @netflix.com
A mall entrance, featuring signage of a fictitous mall made for television, made of neon. In addition, there are neon accents above the entryway. A mall food court. Planters line the atrium, and natural light shines through the vast skylights. Neon accents and disco bulb lights surround the atrium. A sign hangs from the ceiling, advertising the food court below. A mall food court seen from the second floor walkway. Planters line the atrium below, and natural light shines through the vast skylights. A sign hangs from the ceiling, advertising the food court below.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Good news for people who love bad news...

Midway Mall // Elyria, Ohio
#deadmalls #mall #retail #liminalspace #OH #photography
Photograph. An atrium at the end of an empty shopping mall reflecting turn of the 1990s design tastes. Bench seating and litter bins in the foreground. The husk of a closed JCPenney at the end. Photograph. Empty 1980s/90s-vintage storefronts in the Midway Mall shopping center. Signage over one of the centered store's gate reads "Sun News". A tropical plant in the foreground. Photograph. An empty concourse in the Midway Mall shopping center with no stores open or shoppers present. Bench seating and palm trees line the center of the concourse. Empty storefronts on either side.
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
some good news!!

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r...
Rogers Park's New 400 Theaters Is Reopening As New Operator Revives 113-Year-Old Movie House
The operator of three historic movie theaters in Michigan has leased the shuttered Rogers Park theater, which was the city's oldest continually running movie theater when it closed in 2023.
blockclubchicago.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I can't remember the last time it snowed like this before Christmas
Photograph. A yardstick branded with the logos of National Foods, Magikist and S&H Green Stamps sticking out of a snow mound from this weekend's snow event. The snowfall total in the north Chicago suburbs was under 11 inches.
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Photograph. Man in black and an army coat. Phone upside down obscuring face. Reflection in a window pane that's been painted from the backside. A dead shopping mall concourse in the background. Photograph. Man wearing an army coat, black jeans and boots. Fresh snow on the ground.
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A meme image with the text "Remember NFTs? Sort of? Not Really? The same guys who made that bullshit are now telling us Auto-Comolete is intelligent and it has feeling's".
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Hibernation day
Photograph. jonrev's Pontiac Fiero Formula at a gas station on a partly cloudy, fall afternoon.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Look alive, sunshine

Black Friday at Northridge Mall - Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2018)
#deadmalls #abandoned #120film #photography
Photograph of the food court entrance to the abandoned Northridge Mall. The white tile of the 80s-contemporary food court contrasts sharply from the rest of the malls early-1970s dark brick and brutalist design. The glass of the central bay window is broken and boarded up. The scene is lit by the rising sun.
November 29, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving Walking GIF
ALT: Happy Thanksgiving Walking GIF
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I don't know what retailers the Yorktown Center redevelopment hopes to attract, but watch your step in this one...
Photograph. A large wall mural depicting concept art for the redevelopment of Yorktown Center mall. It shows a green space with landscaping and the mall in the distance. Fake store names mark the building. Photograph. Closer view of a fake-labeled storefront on the aforementioned concept art. The store's name is "HH Home", using the H from H&M stores. It is eerily similar to the name of a notorious Chicago serial killer.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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My Lakehurst Mall artifacts and sign are currently on display at the Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie, who is featuring an exhibit on the city's holiday shopping and traditions through December 20.
Photograph. A tall Christmas tree is the centerpiece of an exhibit gallery. A square sign with a white seagull against an illuminated, turquoise background - the insignia of Lakehurst Mall - sits in the corner. Photograph. Two mid-century gift boxes from the Globe Department Store are on display. Potted poinsetta flowers, to the right. Photograph. Two display boards featuring the malls of Waukegan, Illinois: Belvidere and Lakehurst. Photographs and other artifacts from the malls are displayed alongside information boards.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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booksandbows.bsky.social
idk has AI stopped being largely used for revenge porn, justifying layoffs, content theft, and suicide inducement? if no, probably anyone who isn’t a sociopath should be against it.
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 11d
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I don't know what retailers the Yorktown Center redevelopment hopes to attract, but watch your step in this one...
Photograph. A large wall mural depicting concept art for the redevelopment of Yorktown Center mall. It shows a green space with landscaping and the mall in the distance. Fake store names mark the building. Photograph. Closer view of a fake-labeled storefront on the aforementioned concept art. The store's name is "HH Home", using the H from H&M stores. It is eerily similar to the name of a notorious Chicago serial killer.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Jawa Sandcrawler in Naperville, IL
Photograph. A modern, glass office building with an outward-slanting facade resembling a Jawa Sandcrawler from Star Wars. Sign on the corner reads "CityGate Center"
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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After a 17-year lifespan (+/-), the longest I've used any electronic device: my first-gen iPod Touch is likely being retired. Battery only holds a charge for a few minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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American Signature, Inc. - owners of Value City Furniture - has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

www.furnituretoday.com/financial/am...

📷Golf Mill Shopping Center - Niles, Illinois (2020)
#deadmalls #retail #bankruptcy #mediumformat #photography
Photograph. A deserted mall concourse with brown tile, reflective ceilings, planter boxes, bench seating, street lighting, and other 1986-vintage aesthetics. A Value City Furniture store, formerly a mall entrance, occupies the entire block -- its gate is down. Rolleiflex K4B Automat Kodak Portra 400 shot at 800
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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After a long 20-month slumber... Belvidere Cinema came back with a bang Saturday with one of the crazy busiest events we've ever done. Around 180 in attendance for E.T. between two shows - first, nearly a full house - with guests visiting from Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Long-exposure photograph. A small theater with a moderate-sized crowd watching "E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial". Perspective is above the theater seating, from the projection booth. Photograph. A 1960s-vintage General Cinema theater lobby. A table representing the Waukegan Historical Society is manned on left. Concession stand on right. Photography exhibit and historical items on display, in center. String lights hang overhead from a black ceiling. The lobby is calm between screenings. Photograph. A white storefront housing the Belvidere Cinema theater inside Belvidere Mall. Four poster frames hang from the facade, two with historical ads from the theater's opening in 1966; one for the mall's 60th anniversary event; and the last for a free screening of E.T. An entrance is directly right. Mallwalkers pass by the space.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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junlper.beer
private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Disco pants and haircuts
Photograph. A bunch of paper ephemera branded with the logo of the Dixie Square Mall shopping center in Harvey, Illinois. The mall was a filming location for The Blues Brothers.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Belvidere Mall opened 60 years ago today as the first enclosed shopping center in Lake County, Illinois. One of the very few malls to survive a near-death experience: today it remains a vibrant community hub with 38 shops, services and restaurants - nearly all locally-owned - still calling it home.
Black and white photograph. A tall sign reads "Belvidere Mall" with a marquee board below reading "38 FINE STORES FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE". Photograph. An enclosed shopping center at night as viewed from the end of a wet parking lot. Stores visible include Montgomery Ward, Walgreen's and Nedick's Restaurant. A curved entryway serves as the mall's main entrance. Photograph. An atrium in an enclosed shopping center with polished concrete floors. A long concourse extends from the atrium. Shops visible in the atrium include Cover Girl fashions, Richman Brothers, Walgreen's, Hickory Farms, Jody's Cotton Shop, Regal Shoes, Harper's and Fannie May Candies. View is from the entrance to Montgomery Ward.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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32nd Place, Bridgeport, Chicago
Part of a wall covered in posters saying such things as: Immigrants Welcome, Eat the Rich, Melt Ice, Fuck Ice, and No Human is Illegal.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The Curlicue sculpture at Lakeforest Mall (left) is confirmed destroyed.
jonrev.com [jonrevProjects] @jonrev.com · Oct 30
Earlier photos saw Curlicue by Chris Byars intact but on its side. The fate of Monad by Robert Perless is not known.
Photograph. A twisted red sculpture stands watch over natural plantlife in a dead, bilevel shopping mall. Photograph. A chrome shard of polished metal towers in the atrium of a dead shopping mall. No stores in frame are open, no shoppers are present. The only visible signage on any of the stores is Dandy Custom Tailor on the lower level, right of the sculpture.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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My favorite thing about modern cars is the fact the entire dashboard (not just the gauge cluster) has become a video/touch screen yet when something's wrong the only information it shows you remains the half-inch orange graphic of an idiot light.
Graphic. An orange-colored shape resembling a car engine, typically found on a car's dashboard as a warning light.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This weekend's project finished much-needed lighting upgrades at Belvidere Cinema Gallery
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM