Connecticut Avenue Park & Shop

Washington, DC's CONNECTICUT AVENUE PARK & SHOP courted its first customers in December 1930. The shopping hub was one of the first in the nation to provide an off-street parking area.
Photo Library of Congress    

One Stop for Ten Shops! A newspaper ad from December 1930 beckons one and all to visit the shiny new PARK AND SHOP at Connecticut Avenue.  

The PARK & SHOP encompassed 59,000 square feet of selling space and originally housed ten stores and services. These included Peoples Hardware, Frazee-Potomac Laundry and A & P and Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. The strip complex was developed by Herbert Shannon and Morton Luchs and designed by Arthur Heaton.

Highland Park Shopping Village

In January 1931, the "Unit B" building at Greater Dallas' HIGHLAND PARK SHOPPING VILLAGE opened for business. Of all the early "car culture" shopping hubs thus mentioned, this was truly the most innovative. Its store blocks faced inward onto two parking areas, instead of fronting directly on a city street.
Photo from www.hpvillage.com

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