Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Stupid Distrium Minute. I'm your
Speaker 1: host Kep Pound. Today we're talking about the shopping mall.
Speaker 1: See before online shopping, the mall was where America went
Speaker 1: to shop, eat, and hang out. The world's first fully
Speaker 1: enclosed shopping mall, Southdale Center, opened in Indina, Minnesota, on
Speaker 1: October eighth, nineteen fifty six. It was designed by Austrian
Speaker 1: born architect Victor Grun, who envisioned malls as community gathering
Speaker 1: places with shops, restaurants, and even public spaces, not just
Speaker 1: places to spend money. By the nineteen eighties and nineties,
Speaker 1: malls had become the social headquarters for teenagers and weekend
Speaker 1: shoppers alike. Then online shopping changed everything. Turns out Amazon
Speaker 1: became the mall's biggest anchor store without ever opening one.
Speaker 1: This has been the Stupid Distrium Minute and I'm Kep Pound.
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