Malls are gone, what a mess. I figured when malls came in you'd be able to get everything from soup to nuts; the best tools, the best hobby stuff, the best sports stuff, musical instruments, you name it. To my young mind it was supposed to be a place you could get anything. And it started out kinda good; you could get a piano if you'd like, there were a few decent toy stores for kids, but never any hobby stores
But I still have my Craftsman toolbox, tools etc, and even a gasoline can that I bought there for my chain saw that I also bought at Sears at the mall so we could clear the land we'd bought for the house (I was 21). But alas, now they seem to have devolved into shoes, clothes, jewelry and accessories, topped off with a food court. Our indoor mall is a ghost town; Sears was replaced by Rural King (the sole bright spot), a northeast US dept store chain, Boscov's, has a second anchor position and isn't bad, Macy's became a U-haul self-storage center, and surprisingly, J. C. Penney is still hanging in there, and there's a Dick's Sporting Goods, but that is literally just about it. Scores of stores are empty, and no wonder, they all sold the same stuff.