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    How 'Stranger Things' made the Starcourt Mall

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Jul 11, 2019 5 minutes

    No doubt about it: The Starcourt Mall is, like, totally awesome.

    In the latest season of "Stranger Things," the newly opened shopping center captivates the residents of Hawkins, Ind. The Starcourt offers everything a Midwestern consumer in 1985 could ask for, and then some: a Jazzercise, an Orange Julius and, oh yeah, a portal to the Upside Down controlled by the Russian military.

    Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer understand the potent nostalgia of the 1980s, and part of what has made the Starcourt the breakout star of Season 3 - along with newcomer Maya Hawke - is the throwback thrill of revisiting the heyday of the American mall.

    Once bustling temples of consumerism and popular gathering places for suburban teens, hundreds of malls across the country have closed and many

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