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The old food court at the Westgate Plaza still had a working soda machine last Tuesday
I was poking around the upper level near the shuttered Orange Julius, and the red light on a Coke Freestyle was just glowing, humming away like it was 2015. My buddy thinks it's creepy and part of the decay, but I felt it was a weirdly hopeful little glitch, a piece of the past still running on autopilot. Do you find these leftover functioning bits more unsettling or kind of comforting?
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ray_foster6714h ago
Read an article once about places they call "liminal spaces," like empty malls or abandoned offices. That Coke machine humming along fits that feeling perfectly. It's not really creepy or hopeful, just a machine that nobody told to stop. Makes you wonder what else is still running out there, forgotten.
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piper55814h ago
Totally get that. I saw an old arcade game still lit up in a boarded-up pizza place last year. Same weird vibe, just doing its thing.
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