We asked readers to tell us their memories of visiting shopping malls during their youth. Here’s what you told us, lightly edited for clarity:

“My first love was the girl who worked at Orange Julius while I worked at Silverman’s in Fox Valley Mall in Aurora.”

“I was a teenager, waiting for my BFF’s boyfriend to be old enough to drive us to the Woodfield Mall. ... It was like heaven enclosed. So many options over neighborhood stores like Sears and Goldblatts or a stop at Wag’s for lunch.”

Sun-Times file

“So many hours — and quarters — spent at the Games America arcade at Hawthorn Mall in the early- to mid-'80s. I think I still have the plastic coin pouch.” — Eric Friedman

“I cut school to go to Water Tower Place with my friends in the late ‘80s.”

“Orland Square Mall, 1977: Bought my f

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