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@jonrev.com
Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani.
Musings about retail/design/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...

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📍 the jonrev projects encompass 20+ years of exploring, digitally preserving and infodumping about dead malls, commercial architecture, abandoned buildings and other such places of memories.

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blog ➡️ jonrev.com
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Lexington, North Carolina (August 2025)
December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
From my video collection rescued from the ruins of Northridge Mall: here's B-roll footage of its identical, elder sister - Southridge - at Christmastime in 1990.
Christmas at Southridge Mall (1990)
YouTube video by jonreVHS
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December 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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yellow line
skokie, illinois
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I've always loved this concrete building at 326 S. Milwaukee Ave. Libertyville, but don't know any history beyond its construction in 1985. It's currently vacant after housing a bicycle shop for years.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Pickleball Kingdom has opened in Waukegan's long-abandoned, former Child World store. Thus removes the last piece of post-retail blight from the area which was once home to Lakehurst Mall.
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've always loved this concrete building at 326 S. Milwaukee Ave. Libertyville, but don't know any history beyond its construction in 1985. It's currently vacant after housing a bicycle shop for years.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Circa December 1965: Dixie Square Mall under construction, with Montgomery Ward in seasonal garb. Harvey, Illinois.

Three-photograph composite stitched from a severely water-damaged cache found in the mall's ruins in 2010.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Sick to death of people claiming Die Hard isn’t a movie. There are several clues that it definitely is:

It’s 130 minutes long and full of actors

It has a beginning a middle and an end

It has a soundtrack

The aspect ratio is consistent of other movies of the era
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Savage garden

Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #mall #retail #NC #photography
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Golf Mill Professional Building by Edo Belli (1962)

Golf Mill Shopping Center - Niles, Illinois
#deadmalls #architecture #illinois #filmphotography #photography
April 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Make life take the lemons back!

Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #mall #retail #NC #photography
December 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Make life take the lemons back!

Pennrose Mall - Reidsville, North Carolina
#deadmalls #mall #retail #NC #photography
December 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
PSA this is your last week to catch "Seasons of Shopping: Waukegan’s Holiday Traditions" at the Carnegie in downtown Waukegan.
My Lakehurst Mall artifacts and sign are currently on display at the Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie, who is featuring an exhibit on the city's holiday shopping and traditions through December 20.
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This clown, again.

PSA: don't steal my content. Don't monetize my content. And definitely don't steal and monetize my content to backdrop blatant lies.
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Still got work to do but the place dresses nice for the Holidays
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hawthorn Center in Vernon Hills - my childhood mall - has two employees who have worked for the center since the 1970s: Gerald - security, and George - chief engineer.

This past week both were kind to loan me their photo collections, which I am wrapping up digitizing and color correcting.
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The printer at work is old as shit and I wish I had stronger Sharpie skills, but here's a Fiero ornament I finished
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Hoo-ray for Santy Claus!" Coming up Sunday, December 21st: it's a very campy Christmas at Belvidere Cinema Gallery!

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964, NR)
FREE SCREENING @ 4:00 PM

Doors @ 1 PM for art exhibits. Secret show at 1:30!
Holiday Market and FREE pictures with Santa on the mall!
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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In our neck of Chicago, there exists an old Taco Bell that was bought by bankruptcy attorney Peter Francis Geraci. I was worried when he started building an addition, but I’m happy to say that he is preserving the integrity of the Mission Revival style of the old Taco Bell! #chicago
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The printer at work is old as shit and I wish I had stronger Sharpie skills, but here's a Fiero ornament I finished
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I've often said, all we as New Yorkers gained from having Macy's fall into the hands of Federated, was that the name was kept on. Everything else went right down the drain and is a shallow farce of its former self. Macy's as it was, died in 94.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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no idea
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Macy's throwing nostalgia goggles on State Street nearly 20 years after then-CEO Terry Lundgren openly mocked Chicagoans pissed about the assimilation of Marshall Field's will never not be weird to me.
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM