Classical Spin

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

What fifty years will do to grass

That in the center there is the brand-new Cherry Hill Mall, circa 1961 or so.  Pan left about an inch and a half at that scale and you could see my house, which was there long before the mall.  Many of the houses surrounding it are not, nor is the strip of businesses along Haddonfield Rd (running vertically [north/south]).  The building at the bottom was the Cherry Hill Inn.  Now there's a 24-screen movie theater there and a TGI Fridays.  Just to the east, which looks mostly empty, is now a shopping center with a Target and Kohls.  North of the mall is a series of strip malls (seeing a trend?), including a big supermarket.  Northeast of the mall - more strip malls.  

For comparison, here's how it is now:

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I'm pretty sure that there's more open space in the 1961 picture than there now is in all of Cherry Hill township.  

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