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!
St. Louis' River Roads Center


RIVER ROADS CENTER was officially dedicated in August 1962. It was one of the Show Me State's first enclosed shopping centers.
Graphic from the Associated Dry Goods Corporation


The first enclosed shopping center in Missouri was formally dedicated in November 1960. TOWN & COUNTRY MALL, in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, was a smaller, community class facility of just 156,300 leasable square feet. In fact, the entire mall could have fit into the Stix store at RIVER ROADS CENTER with space to spare!
Drawing from the Thomas White Development Corporation