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The Fate of Richland Mall’s Time Capsule - Forest Acres, SC
If you’ve been living in Columbia, SC most of your life, as I have, you may be familiar with the dramatic series of rebuilds and renovations that Midtown at Forest Acres (formerly Richland Mall then Richland Fashion Mall) has undergone. Here’s a brief history of the changes as I recall them:
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Richland Mall: The Richland Mall of the early 80s was not much to look at. It was an open-air mall with a laundromat, a Winn-Dixie grocery store, a pretty nice movie theater, and maybe a handful of retail stores. The original highlight of trips to the mall, for me, was the Baskin Robins 31 Ice Cream shoppe in a retail strip facing Forest Drive. (You could access it from the mall parking lot via a makeshift alleyway).
The movie theater was a huge attraction, I remember seeing awesome 80s cinema like Purple Rain, The Right Stuff, Superman III, and Howard the Duck there. The first movie shown there was Doris Day’s The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). It was orignally a one screen theater, then remodeled soon after to house two huge screens. There was a bronze plaque in the ground at the main entrance that marked the placement of a time capsule that had been there since the mall was constructed. The exhumation date was set to be between 2010 and 2018 (I can’t remember the exact year). All I knew was, as a small child… I wanted to be there when they opened it!
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Ya’ll know I love hip hop… the good ole stuff that hardly makes it to radio… where the mainstreamers stories about ‘the trap’ are eclipsed by Melle Mel’s Message. The era were our music was charged politically, culturally, and socially, and the EmCees were capable of painting vivid pictures with their words… Poetry Over Music!
In those days we did dances like the Pee Wee Herman, Kid-n-Play, Running Man, and the Roger Rabbit. Then we stopped in the mid 90’s, because Goodie M.O.B. said so, and all we were recharged with that consciousness, only this time with a southern twang… long before kids in the suburbs were crankin’ dat on YouTube, and wearing jeans designed for boys with curves.
This headline above will direct you to the FloLympics site that my homie Blatalian and I run. There, we will showcase greatness in hip hop culture! You can also find information there on our freestyle competition, held a few times each year.
We will hold discussions on hip hop nostalgia, and pay homage to underground greats and hip hop legends! A Hip Hop Appreciation Society of sorts. If you’re tired of the gimmicks and lameness being passed off as the hip hop lifestyle, you will certainly enjoy the FloLympics site!
A Message to our QueenSpeaks Radio Supporters
Last night my partner, Queen Unique, and I closed out our third season of QueenSpeaks Radio on BlogTalkRadio.com (BTR). As we debrief on season three and brainstorm in preparation for season four, I’d like to thank our listeners for their unyielding support over the past few years!
