The one time ignoring the 'no entry' sign actually paid off
I was at the old Valley View Galleria in Springfield last month, the place that's been a ghost town since the Sears left. Every door was chained, every loading dock gate was down, and the usual spots were a bust. I was about to call it when I noticed a single, unmarked metal door near the old food court, half hidden by overgrown bushes. The handle was just a flat piece of metal, no lock in sight. I figured it was welded shut like the rest, but gave it a solid shoulder check. It swung right open with this awful groan, leading straight into the back halls of the mall. It was like a time capsule back there, with old store stock still on carts and employee time sheets from 2012 pinned to a board. I got shots of the main concourse from a service balcony nobody had seen in a decade. Sometimes the most obvious looking door is the one everyone forgets. Has anyone else found a weird, unsecured entry point that felt like a secret backstage pass?