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Old 01-19-2005, 10:31 AM
williamweigand williamweigand is offline
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Anyone familiar with New York State shopping malls?

My wife and I visited one years ago that had a small wooden bridge over a body of water outside one of the anchor stores (and I don't mean "outside" as in "outdoors" - this bridge and body of water were in the common area of the enclosed mall.) Neither of us can remember where it was. Does it sound familiar to anyone here?
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Old 01-19-2005, 11:53 AM
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The Marketplace Mall in Henrietta (a suburb of Rochester just off a Thruway exit) has a feature like that.
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Old 01-19-2005, 02:08 PM
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I'm pretty (98%) sure that the bridge in Marketplace is made out of tiles. Unless it started out as a wooden bridge and was updated in the last 5-6 years.
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Old 01-19-2005, 02:17 PM
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I'm fairly sure this isn't Marketplace, though I've not been there for a few years, I don't think there's a bridge anywheres...
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Old 01-19-2005, 04:08 PM
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Actually, you're right. I don't think it is a bridge. In the center of the mall (at the cross roads area) they've got a (rarely filled) wishing well. The well is separated in two by a raised platform with gold railings. The water can't travel from one well to the other, so yea, it's not really a bridge.
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Old 01-20-2005, 09:42 AM
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It may have been 15 to 20 years since we saw this bridge, so, just in case it wasn't a figment of our imaginations, perhaps it may have been in one of the following general locations :
1. Northern New Jersey
2. northeastern Pennsylvania
or 3. southern Ontario, Canada

or, as last resorts, Bradenton, Florida or Redding, California.
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