{"id":7526,"date":"2018-10-03T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2018-10-07T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:43:15","slug":"robert-stark-talks-to-david-cole-about-la-malls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7526","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks to David Cole about LA Malls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and\u00a0Matthew Pegas<\/a>\u00a0talk with David Cole about the history, culture, and aesthetics of LA ‘s Malls.\u00a0David Cole writes for\u00a0Takimag<\/a>\u00a0and is the author of\u00a0Republican Party Animal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David and Robert’s background growing up on the Westside of LA
\nThe\u00a0Open Air\u00a0Century City Shopping Center<\/a>, the original 60’s retro futuristic aesthetics, and the film\u00a0Conquest of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>
\nThe recent\u00a0$1-billion makeover<\/a>\u00a0of the Mall and plans to make Century City more urban and pedestrian friendly
\nThe “Westfield Aesthetic”
\nThe old underground 70’s retro futuristic\u00a0ABC Entertainment Center<\/a>
\nThe first major indoor mall\u00a0Fox Hills in Culver City<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0Westside Pavilion<\/a>,\u00a0Jon Jerde’s<\/a>\u00a080’s Post Modernist aesthetics(original featured in\u00a0Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’<\/a>), and plans to turn it\u00a0into\u00a0office space<\/a>
\nThe 80’s\u00a0Rodeo Collection<\/a>, an archeo-futuristic urban oasis model for self contained cities, and\u00a0the film\u00a0Body Double<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0Beverly Center<\/a>, the amusement\u00a0park\u00a0“Kiddyland” before the mall , the original\u00a080’s aesthetics with futuristic external escalators, and latter\u00a0renovations<\/a>
\nThe lack of interest in preserving 80’s architecture
\nYoung people’s interest in 80’s aesthetics and the magical\u00a0dream like memories from early childhood(Hypnagogia<\/a>)
\nThe 70’s retro high-rise Mr. C Hotel<\/a>(formerly the Renaissance) near Beverly Hills
\nThe\u00a0Third Street Promenade<\/a>, the first major outdoor mall
\nThe rise of outdoor malls such as Rick Caruso’s\u00a0The Grove<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Americana at Brand<\/a>\u00a0and how those are now becoming dated
\nFuture trends, the under construction high-rise shopping complex, the\u00a0Oceanwide Plaza<\/a>\u00a0in Downtown LA
\nThe\u00a0Jon Jerde<\/a>\u00a0designed neon lit\u00a0Universal CityWalk<\/a>
\nDavid’s joke about the City Walk’s old Rain Forest Cafe and the Museum of Tolerance’s Tunnel of Hate
\nWestwood Village<\/a> as the center of Westside nightlife and it’s\u00a0decline<\/a>\u00a0in the late 80’s<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Cole-LA-Mall-History.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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