Welcome to the largest mall and retail history site on the internet. The MALL HALL OF FAME is a vintage shopping mall scrapbook. Its focus is on shopping complexes built -in the USA- between 1946 and 1979. Don't forget to visit our four Shopping Mall Memory Lanes, which transport you through time to a mall in 1956, 1963, 1970 and 1977!
Los Angeles' Pomona Valley Center 


The third mall-type complex in Greater Los Angeles straddled the cities of Montclair and Pomona. The original POMONA VALLEY CENTER, or PVC, housed twenty-seven stores and services beneath its canopies.
Graphic from the John S. Griffith Company


A modernistic sketch of the prospective San Gabriel Valley shopping hub. Stores in The PVC would open for business between November 1954 and April 1956.
Drawing from the John S. Griffith Company