Friday night, shopping at the mall to pick out your favorite perfume. Spill-the-tea parties at a dessert shop. Dates to pilfer through the hottest new albums released on vinyl. These and other quirky hangout spots have become part of our daily lives in Utah.

But seasons come and seasons go, just like some of our favorite spots to hang. Here are some of the places that have closed down in Utah for one reason or another, with plenty of memories left behind.

ZCMI and Crossroads Plaza

"Yo, want to get some Mrs. Fields cookies?"

That was a typical Saturday for teens at the raddest place in downtown Salt Lake City — Crossroads Plaza. It was the mall of many a Utahn's childhood from the 1980s until it closed in 2007, with memories as potent as the smell of the Cinnabon. You probably remember

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