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mewisme700 t1_isxcm72 wrote

Ate way too much at Plaza Azteca last night, I'm waking up still feeling full.

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lemon_difficult90 t1_isxf5vn wrote

Back in the early ‘00s, there was a Plaza Azteca in Norfolk that took over an old Spaghetti Warehouse. My high school dirtbag friends and I went there weekly. They kept the trolley car that had been in the middle of the Spaghetti Warehouse and Plaza Azteca-ized it with beer flags, sugar skulls, that kind of thing. Truly the most scenic location to eat your Miracle Whip salsa.

It’s a gym now and has been for at least 10 years. I went there a couple of times when I attempted to live at home, and they got rid of the trolley car. Can’t tell me you couldn’t have at least fit some stretching equipment in there.

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Pale-Temperature6442 t1_isxpyow wrote

Omg spaghetti warehouse was the worst..there was so much stuff in there.. and I ate there once and was so sick ..

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lemon_difficult90 t1_isxrvv2 wrote

I had my birthday dinner there when I turned 8, and even then I knew the food sucked. We leveled up to Rainforest Café for my ninth birthday! 😂

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everybodyhateskhris t1_isxt9ke wrote

Spaghetti Warehouse and Rainforest Cafe? Talk about throwbacks ha. We went once (Rainforest Cafe) and it was closed before we could go again.

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lemon_difficult90 t1_isxui7z wrote

Ours turned into a Forever 21 at some point. I was pretty much Forever 21’s target demographic when this happened, but it still seemed like it was not a fair trade. Man, it might just have been that I was in third grade when it opened, but the mall in downtown Norfolk was an experience for the first few years of its existence. The first iteration of the Vans store had a half pipe!

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everybodyhateskhris t1_isxvs1p wrote

Yeah I was referring to the one in Mac Mall (MacArthur). Yeah I remember it being an experience (never saw the half pipe though).

I had been wondering if it is as dead as other malls being that it is downtown. A quick search confirm that it is pretty dead and there are plans to tear it down by 2030.

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lemon_difficult90 t1_isxwn2p wrote

The theory is that they made it too upscale, which makes sense to me. Norfolk doesn’t have an awful lot of people in the tax bracket required to shop at Nordstrom. Online shopping killed the whole thing pretty fast, though - I worked there during college in the early 2010s and it was still consistently busy, but the couple of times I’ve been there while visiting my parents the last few years, it’s been dead as hell. I hear Lynnhaven Mall is still reasonably busy, but VB is definitely another world.

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everybodyhateskhris t1_isy76m3 wrote

Yeah I can see that. After the first couple years I only went to go to the movie theater there.

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