I can't tell you how many times I've been to the website deadmalls.com over the last few years. Probably an embarrassingly large amount of times. Why? Nostalgia. However, I never knew that this started right here in the Capital Region!

Pete Blackbird of Queensbury had a friend, Brian Florence that purchased the website for him to start back in 1999 as a birthday gift, knowing Blackbird has a fascination with malls and shopping centers. It was a place for him to post photos, stories and profiles of dying shopping facilities that he enjoyed.

Little did they know, in the last 15+ years how malls would really begin to struggle nationally and that his site would then flourish. Now, 17 years later, the site has more than 400 malls within 45 states listed as well as some in Cananda, China and New Zealand.

Now living in Glens Falls, Peter Blackbird and Florence continue to run the site along with another site that follows unusual soda brands, sodafinder.com.

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