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!

We now break set with a full-color photo of Gertz Long Island at MID-ISLAND SHOPPING PLAZA.
Photo from Allied Stores Corporation Annual Report 1956


Back to black & white, we see a visually-intriguing snapshot of the Gertz store's east-facing facade. 
Photo from Library of Congress