The first shopping mall Macy's:

San Mateo, California's Hillsdale Center



San Fran's second shopping mall was anchored by the 185,000 square
foot department store seen above, which opened in November 1954. By
building it in a mall, the Macy's San Francisco division beat it's New York
City-based counterpart by two years. The first New York "mall Macy's"
was dedicated -in August 1956- at Long Island's ROOSEVELT FIELD
CENTER.

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