Sam and I walked into the Claremont Shopping Centre after 10, It was pretty busy considering it was only mid-morning on a Monday. The shopping centre had had a complete upgrade done in the late 2000s, expanding out to create a courtyard that held restaurants and a bowling alley and all the stores were modernised. That would be another 20 years away yet, but walking through the stuffy mall, I spotted chipped paint on the banisters, missing tiles on the floors and one giant stand out that hadn't survived past the mid-2000s.
"I forgot that there was a HMV here," I exclaim, grabbing Sam's hand and dragging him towards to giant music store that was filled with rows and rows of CDs categorised into genres. We broke off into different sections, Sam heading towards metal while I browsed through A
