Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Rockville Mall artifact found


Historical documentation of the infamous Rockville Mall is few and far between. Photographs of the structure are virtually non-existent, even on dead mall websites. Whether such materials were simply destroyed, or slowly disappear via the Mandela Effect or CERN tearing apart the space-time continuum, is unknown. So discovery of any new artifacts from the Rockville Mall is exciting, indeed.


Here we have a matchbook from David Lee's Empress, a Chinese restaurant with a location inside the Rockville Mall. It is currently being auctioned off on eBay. If you ever ate at the Empress, please leave your memories in the comments section below. Meanwhile, my archaeological dig for Rockville Mall ephemera continues. "It belongs in a museum!"

2 comments:

  1. Several pictures of the exterior entrances exist on a facebook site devoted to old Rockville photos.

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  2. I worked in a Japanese gift store located across from the Empress. I was friends with David Lee’s son, Steven Lee and his wife in the early 70’s. His other son Kelly, managed the restaurant. - I had my first Moscow Mule cocktail there. Darn! I’m old!! I was in my 20’s then. - The mall was dismal, but I have fond memories of the people there.

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