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!
The south anchor of the original FRANKLIN PARK MALL started out as a Toledo-based Lamson's. It became a Michigan-based Jacobson's in the mid-1970s. Drawing from the Lamson Brothers Company
For over 9 years, the shopping complex had four major anchors. A Toledo-based Lion Store was added to the mall's northwest corner in the early '90s. Graphic from the Mercantile Stores Company