Kind of how I imagined “Gamma World” to be. Except, a laser-eyed security robot should cruise through every 45 minutes, you can hear it coming by the soft whirr of some important gears grinding, and its semi-sentient software has driven it into a terrifying kind of psychotic loneliness and paranoia. It fears visitors, while desperately longing for someone to talk to.
Also, the potted plants are mutants who will eat you.
Someone even has a Patreon for taking requests. I don’t know. The acoustics seem … off … for a large space like that. The right filter in Audacity and stock pictures of empty malls, and you’re ready to go.
Heavens, I was very young when I last went in there (>40 years ago). I don’t even remember any actual stores there (although I’m sure they existed), just bumper cars and sword-swallowers.
Am I imagining (or remembering a different place), or was there a building or structure that looked like a rocket ship in the parking lot? Also remembering (again, maybe somewhere else in Torrance) a liquor store shaped like a boot, complete with a rotating spur.
Are you thinking the discovery center down in the OC? They’ve got a rocket (and a shuttle replica).
As for the liquor store with a boot, not that I remember, but I didn’t frequent but one liquor store (and that was for the candy and video games)… Prince market liquor… Good times.
Seriously though, that’s a cool-looking toilet. It looks like the head of an angry mech, like it just needs ears and it could be in Patlabor or something.