For most of us who grew up in Delaware County, the Springfield Mall isn’t really a building. It’s a feeling.
It’s the smell of the food court on a Saturday. The first paycheck from a first job. The annual pilgrimage for back-to-school sneakers, the holiday crush, the aimless teenage laps with no money and nowhere else to be.
Like every older mall in America, it has changed almost beyond recognition. And yet, for a lot of Delco shoppers, Springfield Mall still glows a little around the edges…