On the busiest road in Madison, in the cut, sits East Towne Mall. This place was built in 1971 with plenty of stores. Now it has become… not so busy.
With stores going out of business and people shopping online, the indoor mall has become nonexistent. Big traffic stores such as Sears and Gordman’s shut down at the mall in 2020, The Boston Store closed its outlet there 2018.
I could remember the 1990s like it was yesterday. My friends and I would go walk around the mall with other friends. We would go to the dollar movies. We would go shopping. And of course, we would go meet boys from other schools…