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!

One Plymouth Meeting, a 9-floor office tower, was completed in March 1971. It was built on the south side of the shopping complex.
Photo from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania


The second food court at PLYMOUTH MEETING was a small, six-unit row of shops installed in a cramped entrance hall. Named for its proximity to the mall's twin-plex theater, Cinema Lane was in operation by 1979.  


The nation's first Ikea opened at PLYMOUTH MEETING MALL in June 1985. The store was built, as a freestanding structure, in the southwestern periphery of the complex.
Photo from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania