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!

Rike's Salem was the second branch in the Dayton-based chain. It was completed, in the summer of 1963, as a freestanding unit. SALEM MALL was eventually added to the store's east-facing wall.
Drawing from Federated Department Stores, Incorporated


The Metropolitan, another Dayton-based mercantile, had a large SALEM MALL store.
Drawing from The Metropolitan


Here we see the mall's North Arcade and Liberal supermarket mallway entrance.
Drawing from the Community Research & Development Corporation