# Anyone familiar with New York State shopping malls?

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**Created:** [January 19, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557 "2005-01-19T16:31:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/1 "2005-01-19T16:31:38Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/2 "2005-01-19T17:53:38Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/3 "2005-01-19T20:08:52Z")

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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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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/4 "2005-01-19T20:17:38Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/5 "2005-01-19T22:08:25Z")

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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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**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-new-york-state-shopping-malls/285557/6 "2005-01-20T15:42:52Z")

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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.