![]() “I had to say excuse me a million times to get to work,” says Jane Krick, a waitress at Suglia’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, the last full-service restaurant standing. Crowds thronged to the annual Easter egg hunt and Lithuanian Days festival, a nod to the region’s ancestral ties. Now it’s a dialysis center.Ī decade ago, the Schuylkill Mall and its 90 stores, restaurants and knickknack kiosks was a nexus of daily life in this part of Pennsylvania coal country, where teenagers met to flirt as warm-up-suited seniors walked laps around them. The plants underneath the skylight droop toward a ring of yellow caution tape, and the piped-in music echoes off barren walls. The customer-service office is cordoned off by a metal gate. The stores that have shuttered–Sears, Kmart, Spencer Gifts, Hallmark Cards–far outnumber the dozen businesses that remain. ![]() The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, Pa., is open for business, but you have to look hard to know it. ![]()
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