Cleveland Mall Guy Is Still Alive & Still Swagged AF

Cleveland Mall Guy / via Twitter

Those of you who’ve been around here for five years or so will remember Cleveland Mall Guy and the content run I had with that guy years ago. People started spotting him all over the Cleveland region and would send in photos of him and his swagalicious outfits. Then things went quiet from CMG & I moved on. Maybe he was sick. Maybe he quit wearing the outfits. Maybe Cleveland people just became so used to seeing him that it wasn’t special anymore.

Then this weekend a reader sent in a photo of CMG and my emotions went through the roof. CMG IS F-ING BACK BABY! The outfits are still on point. The scrolling belt buckle or whatever it is is still on point. The glasses are still swagged TF out. It’s like CMG hasn’t missed a step.

Let’s go back to the most comprehensive report on CMG that exists on the Internet from Cleveland Scene:

He’s 49 and immigrated to the U.S. more than 20 years ago with his family from Hungary – he speaks with a thick Eastern European accent – directly to Cleveland. His aunt lived here and his brother had a few friends running produce at the West Side Market, so that’s the business Jim got into. He still distributes produce via a wholesaler near East 55th St. to restaurants. Up before the sun, he’ll work until the early afternoon – in regular clothes.

Yes, as incongruous as the thought of Mall Guy wearing anything other than his Mall Guy accouterments is, Jim does in fact wear regular clothes as he grapples boxes of vegetables “Just jeans and a shirt, you know,” he says.

Great news out of Cleveland today. Mall Guy is still going strong (from @franklinlake201) pic.twitter.com/d0ku5MYCAP

— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) December 23, 2019