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!
One of the five stores anchoring Edward J. DeBartolo's "showplace" mall was Cleveland-based Higbee's. The basic design of this store had also been used for units at Mentor's GREAT LAKES MALL and Greater Canton's BELDEN VILLAGE.
The 117-acre mall site, as it was configured in the early 1980s. Several outparcel structures now compliment the enormous shopping center.
