RIP Franchises of our youths

[Drunk Monk]

Vallco - talk about a ghost town.  I go there for the AMC because it's one of the outlets that show Chinese films regularly.  cf & I have enjoyed it.  And as you surely remember, that's where our 25th banquet was.  But that theater and that Chinese restaurant is all that's left.  The rest is all shut down.  There was this plan to do this huge development of it, one of those living communities fused with shopping areas, but it collapsed (that's somewhat happening across the street, in the shadow of the new Apple HQ).  I grew up there too because it was erected when I lived there and was in walking distance.  

It's weird to see the collapse of indoor shopping malls.  The one near Tiger Claw is still alive - it's been remodeling around a new AMC and has some fun nerd shops now.  I grab lunch there at least once a week.