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Living in a Mall
salon.com 8.15.08

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What does "Home" mean to you? For the past four years, Adriana Yoto and Michael Townsend have called Providence Place mall in Providence, Rhode Island, "home." They crafted a secret apartment within the mall...


 
 
"After their experimental week, Yoto and Townsend returned regularly for four years, attempting to transform that storage space into a luxury apartment furnished by the mall. They built a wall with 39-pound cinder blocks that they hauled in themselves — there was plenty of hard physical labor involved in their attempt at the high life. They added sofas, tables, lamps, a TV, a china hutch and a Sony PlayStation (which was stolen while they lived there, which suggests their presence wasn't entirely secret), and stayed for days at a time. They planned to install pre-laminated wood flooring and a portable toilet."

Fascinating and informative: The couple who lived in a mall.

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ahhh, good old providence place. That place is horribly designed... not a surprise there are whole unused lengths that someone could live in for months on end without being discovered.

posted by closertotheocean on 2008-08-15 16:03:05
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This is fascinating! How did they get a sofa in there? That's hilarious.

posted by BambiJo on 2008-08-15 16:15:28
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this more scary than interesting

posted by LittleRock on 2008-08-15 16:19:38
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Either this is old news or they lifted this concept from the crew that did it originally.

posted by NathanSE on 2008-08-15 16:24:56
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I loved that article. Very well written!

posted by annika on 2008-08-15 16:28:52
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It is old news Nathan - these kids were busted a year ago. They didn't actually live there but spent a lot of time in the place.

posted by alexis on 2008-08-15 16:40:12
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What a stunt!

posted by madampince on 2008-08-15 19:28:33
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Wouldn't work for me. I don't like malls . . . too many people, too much noise, etc.

posted by williamsweyr on 2008-08-15 22:19:21
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