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!

An advert announcing the official grand opening of PALOUSE EMPIRE MALL. At its official dedication, the shopping facility housed fifteen stores and services (there would eventually be twenty-two).
Graphic from E.D. McCarthy, Incorporated


A circa-1983 physical layout shows the fully-realized shopping and entertainment complex. The initial Kmart plaza is shown in black. The enclosed mall, added to its west side, is indicated in medium gray. When fully-leased, it contained thirty-five tenant spaces. A freestanding Ernst Home Center and 4-plex cinema were completed in 1980 and 1983, respectively.


The first enclosed shopping center in Moscow opened in the fall of 1978 and featured stores such as Sears, Safeway and Giant T. MOSCOW MALL encompassed approximately 150,000 leasable square feet, making it around half the size of the original PALOUSE EMPIRE MALL. Today, MOSCOW MALL is known as EASTSIDE MARKETPLACE.
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