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. This site includes historical sections about regional department stores, discount stores, 5 & 10 stores and supermarkets. 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!
Chicagoland's Golf Mill Center
A bucolic logo accompanied the "Antique Rustic" motif of the original mall. GOLF MILL CENTER opened for business in October 1960. Graphic from Milwaukee-Golf Development Corporation
The GOLF MILL mall was anchored by a 230,000 square foot Sears that was situated between North Mall and South Mall concourses. One was required to walk through the store to get from one Mall to the other.
Drawing from Sears, Roebuck & Company Annual Report 1960