The series of PhotoCentral articles that we did on Reidsville’s dead Pennrose Mall turned out to be our top-viewed articles of the year here at SouthsideCentral. That means we just had to go back and see if anything had changed since our last visit.
If you laughed at our articles last time, you’re going to laugh harder. If you didn’t laugh at the articles, then you’re a sourpuss. Our snark has been reloaded. Let’s start the tour!
Here’s the links to the seven article in our original series: Part #1 – Part #2 – Part #3 – Part #4 – Part #5 – Part #6 – Part #7
A new PhotoCentral series is about to start. Please remain seated until this ride comes to a complete stop.
Here’s the wide-angle view of the only entrance that’s unlocked at Pennrose Mall on Sunday.
Let’s walk around the perimeter of the mall towards Scales Street. Here, we find what looks to be a freshly cut tree that’s mysteriously hollowed out. Or somebody just ran over it.
The former First Citizens Bank is now the Jackson Hewitt tax preparation office. Drive-thru service is not available because the employees park in those lanes. Actually, they never had drive-thru service (but that’s not funny to talk about).
Looky here. A new mall directory sign! Um… what about Belk? Maybe they’re waiting for the Belk logo panel to arrive? However, the leasing phone number is there, so call today before the mall is leased 100%! Hurry!
Roses is doing a booming business today. You can see somebody returning their shopping cart to the store. But there’s a very loud electrical buzzing sound coming from somewhere…
And it’s coming from this light pole. I could hear the buzzing from a light ballast at least 100 feet away. Something is gonna go KABOOM! sooner or later here.
Everybody goes to Roses after church! Or they’re just looking at Bob Adams’ Florist’s delivery vans. No matter what, we give style points for the high heels and fancy hat.
Somebody wanted you to know that Cato is no longer at the mall. They ran low on white paint once they got to the “O”, but the message is clear.
That explains it! Roses is having a clearance sale. Technically, Roses is nothing but a clearance sale. What the hell? A rain bucket at the corner of the “landscaping”? I knew that the leaks were bad inside the mall, but come on…
Oh lordy, we’ve just started our second visit to the dead Pennrose Mall. We’ve got a lot more PhotoCentral articles coming up in this series, and they’re guaranteed to make you laugh or we’ll refund your money!
haha..now that’s funny! i was In front of those nicely dressed ladies and held the door for them. Sad i didn’t make the picture! lol personally it is so very sad, but i still go there on Sundays when im in town. if just for the nostalgia
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“However, the leasing phone number is there, so call today before the mall is leased 100%! Hurry!”
This reminds me of how when I was a kid, one of the major Southern grocery store chains (I wanna say Winn-Dixie, but I could be wrong) would try to sell ads on EVERYTHING, right down to the backs of receipts. They had a giant board on the wall behind the registers that was meant to be covered in more ads, but only about 1/4 of them were actually sold. The rest were covered in weird little cartoon drawings that were meant to convince you that those spaces were in SUPER high demand and that all the spots were going to be snapped up right this second and zOMG WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? GET YOUR SPACE NOW!!”
Of course, they weren’t that much in demand because they were mostly unsold and the store wasn’t exactly new. So it came off as pretty pathetic. Basically, they were doing what you just did with that sign, but they weren’t joking and honestly expected us to believe it.