Took me four hours to find a working map of an old mall I used to go to

I got nostalgic about the mall I hung out at in high school, the one with the two story carousel in the middle. It closed down in like 2008 and got torn down a few years later. I went looking for a floor plan from the 90s, just to see where the arcade was. Everything was either a dead link or a cached image that wouldn't load. Finally found a scanned directory page from 1994 on some random university archive site that had nothing to do with malls. My question is, where do you guys go when the Wayback Machine fails you? Is there a hidden spot for old building floor plans or mall directories that I'm missing?

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brian_ward5511d ago

Man, I feel your pain. I spent a whole weekend once trying to find the layout of the old two-screen theater my buddies and I used to sneak into. Everything was either a grainy photo of the outside or some real estate listing from 2011. Finally found a foldout map in a scanned high school yearbook from 1997, of all places. It's wild where this stuff hides, like some random alumni page or a defunct city planning PDF. I swear, half the fun is the hunt, but the other half is yelling at my screen when I hit another dead pixel. Good on you for sticking it out four hours, I woulda caved and just drawn it from memory.