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Took me 4 hours to find the old Sears entrance at Westland Mall in Columbus and it was right where I started
Honestly this one still bugs me. I was trying to map out the service corridors at Westland Mall in Columbus, the one that closed back in 2018, and I kept reading old floor plans that labeled the anchor as "Sears east entry." I walked the whole outside of that building twice, past the old pizza place and the boarded up movie theater, and could not find a single door on the east side. What I did not catch was that the mall was turned 90 degrees from the way most maps draw it, so "east" in the old plans lines up with what looks like north when you're standing in the lot. I finally pulled up a 2004 news photo of a guy standing in front of the store and matched the tile pattern to a spot I had walked past at least five times. Four hours, two trips back to the car for water, one dead phone battery. If you're ever hunting entries in a mall that got reoriented after a road widening, check the old aerials before you trust the compass on your phone. Anyone else get thrown off by malls that don't line up with the streets anymore?
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