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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 857044, member: 33"]A very popular antique mall in northwest Indiana was forced to close because the owner of the historic building in which it was located didn't want the mall there and wants to rehab the building for other uses. (And the historic building really does need restoration.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, lots of the dealers jumped to a few smaller antique stores/malls in the neighborhood. (Now there are only about 3 malls left in that neighborhood that I know of.)</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT what inspired me to write this is based on [USER=210]@Marko[/USER] 's comments above. One of the longtime sellers at the closed mall has enlisted maybe about 1/3 of the former dealers to open a new mall in an area about a mile or so away, near a major interstate. It's in an industrial park, so not the best location. I got to go to it last month, a couple of weeks after it opened. There is room for more dealers there. One thing that struck me, though, was that the merchandise in the new mall is mostly newer stuff (and by that I mean 1970s to the present). The old mall that closed had some of that, but also some older things. But there were a lot more dealers in the older mall. The only thing I bought was an older Vera Bradley purse, made before they outsourced to China. So it has a "Made in USA" tag in it. Other than that I saw nothing I wanted. But it was a lot of fun to look, especially because I was there with somebody else.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the place doesn't seem to be air conditioned, either. They had a large door opened that looked like it's intended for loading and unloading with big trucks. That kept the temperature inside bearable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 857044, member: 33"]A very popular antique mall in northwest Indiana was forced to close because the owner of the historic building in which it was located didn't want the mall there and wants to rehab the building for other uses. (And the historic building really does need restoration.) Anyway, lots of the dealers jumped to a few smaller antique stores/malls in the neighborhood. (Now there are only about 3 malls left in that neighborhood that I know of.) BUT what inspired me to write this is based on [USER=210]@Marko[/USER] 's comments above. One of the longtime sellers at the closed mall has enlisted maybe about 1/3 of the former dealers to open a new mall in an area about a mile or so away, near a major interstate. It's in an industrial park, so not the best location. I got to go to it last month, a couple of weeks after it opened. There is room for more dealers there. One thing that struck me, though, was that the merchandise in the new mall is mostly newer stuff (and by that I mean 1970s to the present). The old mall that closed had some of that, but also some older things. But there were a lot more dealers in the older mall. The only thing I bought was an older Vera Bradley purse, made before they outsourced to China. So it has a "Made in USA" tag in it. Other than that I saw nothing I wanted. But it was a lot of fun to look, especially because I was there with somebody else. And the place doesn't seem to be air conditioned, either. They had a large door opened that looked like it's intended for loading and unloading with big trucks. That kept the temperature inside bearable.[/QUOTE]
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