PHOTOS: America's Malls in 1989
The 1980s were all about big hair, punk rock clothes and other outrageous fashions that could all be found in another sign of the times, the mall. “Public life was taking place at the malls,” said photographer Michael Galinsky. “Malls were becoming the new downtown.” Galinsky was a 20-year-old student at New York University in 1989 when he left on a cross-country road trip to document “Malls Across America,” also the title of his new book of photographs from his journey. “You really couldn’t tell where you were,” said Galinsky, 44, of his month-long trip with a friend from North Carolina to California and back. “There were two malls – in Bellevue, Wash and Columbia, Missouri – that were literally the same mall with the same layout and same stores. That’s what I was setting out to capture.” Click through to see Galinsky’s photographs from his new book, and prepare to be transported back to the ‘80s.
