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!

A cross-section of the original mall. Its stores opened on an east-west "Arcade," which ran between two tri-level anchors. The basement beneath The Arcade included a truck tunnel, loading docks, a small shopping concourse and basements for Woolworth's, Sol Lewis Company, Cook Paint & Varnish Company and The Nebraska Company.
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