This is one of the oldest strip malls in Brandon; I remember purchasing my first audio cassette of Sgt. Pepper here sometime around 1988. It used to be called Brandon Centre South. Note the British spelling.These days it is considered an outdated, underperforming strip center. The Winn-Dixie that used to anchor it has long since packed up and gone, and now there's one of those fly-by-night houseware outlets occupying its formerly hallowed halls. You know, the kind of place that ends up with all the crap Pier One couldn't sell.
The curious lack of suburban community identity is an interesting phenomenon. A place like this, which is only twenty years old, is ancient by suburban standards. Lucrative big box stores and supermarket chains are hesitant to stay in one place for very long, and so we are left with these sprawling monoliths. They are the cast-offs of this culture, once great village hubs now relegated to Strip Mall Limbo.
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5 comments:
have you ever found that some strip malls are "scary"? for example, the plaza that our old blockbuster used to be in...stacy's buffet, radio shack, dollar general. what more could anyone ask for?
-kaylag
I think the positioning of the buffet in close proximity to the Dollar Store was no accident, so that people could waddle out of Stacy's directly into the latter to pick up some Scott Brand (tm) toilet paper. Because they're going to, you know, need it.
If that's the strip mall I think it is, I'm pretty sure I owe the gym on the corner $700.
buffets within a strip mall should be strictly avoided. then again, i feel that buffets should be avoided in general (with the exception of sweet tomatoes, of course.)
that's a whole 'nother subject.
-kaylag
Last time I ate at Stacy's, about an hour later I threw up in my mouth. Seriously.
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