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Anonymous wrote:Wow. It used to be such a nice mall.

I was not nice very quickly after it was built. 25 years ago I went after work to find clothes for a funeral and didn't feel safe walking around.

Lol. "Didn't feel safe."

We know what this means.

PS -- You were safe.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It used to be such a nice mall.

I was not nice very quickly after it was built. 25 years ago I went after work to find clothes for a funeral and didn't feel safe walking around.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It used to be such a nice mall.

Never. We used to metro there in the 90s. Always had the riff raff thanks to Metro. It's why georgetown didn't want the metro.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. These are not out of town tourists. You knew exactly who they were before you clicked this link.

Hard to imagine anyone thinking it was the tour group teens causing this problem.

You know those kids from the Midwest are desperate to start burning things. /s

I'm from the Midwest. I went to a high school with a 50% drop out rate and scenes like this happened at school. Not all the time; but they happened.

Anonymous wrote:It's such an odd mall. On one hand you have high end stores such as Nordstrom and an exclusive hotel (Ritz-Carlton) and then you have the cheap pop up stores and Macy's.

This isn't really odd given the rise of internet commerce and how late-stage capitalism begins to gasp for air. The mall is dying, but many of the retailers are still in denial and trying to stick it out while money remains on the table.

I bought myself a lux watch at Tourneau in this mall when I moved to DC for my first job as a lawyer in 2002 after graduating law school. I considered it a nice mall, indeed. But that was decades ago.

This was horrible, and if I'd had any reason to hit up Pentagon City Mall again, I'd not do it after seeing this. Haven't been there in like 20 years as I live very close to Tysons.

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Anonymous wrote:So depressing what this area has become.

We need to ban tour buses!

Yes these were obviously groups of rival midwestern tour groups that came from South Dakota to rumble in the pentagon city food court.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is so trashy now.

You mean people from the DM trashing the DMV

Your ghetto place is trashing the DMV.

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is so trashy now.

You mean people from the DM trashing the DMV

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids on school trips usually come during the week, not the weekends, and the videos I saw showed mostly what looked to be older teens - not 12-13 year old junior high students. This was definitely locals.

And yes, Hispanic kids wouldn’t be doing all this.

Kids on school trips include older teens — on what appear to be senior class trips. I’m not suggesting that the kids involved in the fights were from out of town. I am suggesting that normalizing the mall as a place for large groups of students to congregate is a factor that both encourages large groups of kids in the mall as recreational activities, and makes overall management and security more difficult than if this were not the case.

Seemed to work out just fine in the 80s.

Honestly kids in the 80s and 90s probably would have been in the same trouble if phones had been around. Everyone wants to get thousands of views on their fight video. Sadly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids on school trips usually come during the week, not the weekends, and the videos I saw showed mostly what looked to be older teens - not 12-13 year old junior high students. This was definitely locals.

And yes, Hispanic kids wouldn’t be doing all this.

Kids on school trips include older teens — on what appear to be senior class trips. I’m not suggesting that the kids involved in the fights were from out of town. I am suggesting that normalizing the mall as a place for large groups of students to congregate is a factor that both encourages large groups of kids in the mall as recreational activities, and makes overall management and security more difficult than if this were not the case.

Seemed to work out just fine in the 80s.

The DMV is so trashy now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It used to be such a nice mall.

It never was

It definitely was before the Metro went there. Are you new to the area?
DP

Are you?
How long was the mall there “before the Metro went there”? I’ll wait.
Hint: The mall opened around 1989/90. All you have to do is check the date for the Metro stations in the area
and share your: “Oh D’uh” after you do the math.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be a good thing for Arlington if they demolished that mall and built something else. It's so trashy.

It's a beautiful mall. The people are trashy.

Too easy to get there from DC and Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:Kids on school trips usually come during the week, not the weekends, and the videos I saw showed mostly what looked to be older teens - not 12-13 year old junior high students. This was definitely locals.

And yes, Hispanic kids wouldn’t be doing all this.

Kids on school trips include older teens — on what appear to be senior class trips. I’m not suggesting that the kids involved in the fights were from out of town. I am suggesting that normalizing the mall as a place for large groups of students to congregate is a factor that both encourages large groups of kids in the mall as recreational activities, and makes overall management and security more difficult than if this were not the case.