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!
Seattle's Northgate Center


The Bon Marche ["mar-shay"], a division of the Allied Stores holding company, anchored NORTHGATE CENTER. The Jet City's revolutionary retail complex was the first in the world to incorporate all of the components of a (quote-unquote) "shopping mall."