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!

A late 1980s expansion is shown in dark gray. With its completion, WHEATON PLAZA assumed the status as fourth-largest shopping mall in Greater Washington. The addition added a South Wing, Hecht's anchor store and southeast parking garage. The mall now encompassed around 1,390,000 leasable square feet and housed 138 stores and services. Its parking area could accommodate 6,000 cars at one time.