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!
What was -in 1965- a "New Generation" Penneys, on an open-air mall promenade. If a second phase demalling were ever completed at CANTON CENTRE (?), the store would -again- have only exterior entrances.
A northward view of the J.C. Penney mall entrance.
The abandoned site of the MELLETT MALL F.W. Woolworth 5 & dime. The store opened, along with the original open-air complex, in 1965 and was shuttered in 1994.