I remember all of those things except the head shops (but then again, I wouldn't have noticed them anyway). I also remember pet shops, toy stores, book stores, small candy booths in the main department store in the mall, small movie theaters that only had two rooms, stores like Woolworth's that had lunch counters outside in the hallway, soft pretzel stands in that same hallway, pinball arcades, department stores that don't even exist anyone (and usually more than one of them in different sections)-oh, I could go on forever with this!
You remembered some good ones. Yes, I definitely remember the Woolworth's lunch counter in the hallway, small candy booths in the department stores, pet shops, and - what did you call them? - "pinball" arcades painted up all black like dark grottoes. There was also a candle shop called "Wicks and Sticks," I believe, that sold all kinds of crazy, sculpted candle figures such as dragons, etc. - like wax works of art. I still have one somewhere around here.
To be honest, I can't even remember the last time I shopped in a mall. There's no cool stores left that appeal to me. I do remember thinking to myself, though, as I hurriedly walked through one, "Why the hell am I even here?" (There's also not that many cool stores left outside of the malls, either!) Welcome to the age of Target and Walmart. Now I tend to frequent small CD, book, and other odd stores located on renovated downtown Main Streets in neighboring small towns.
Perhaps the 3rd Blade Runner movie will feature even yet a bleaker landscape: A vast system of domes covering Los Angeles, which, in itself, is a vast, never-ending Walmart, a place where one could live and die without ever having to leave. Everything for the impoverished soul!