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!

In 2001, THE MALL IN COLUMBIA has five anchor stores. Lord & Taylor opened in November 1998. Nordstrom, part of a new Northwest Wing, debuted in September 1999. Two separate culinary complexes have also been consolidated into one expanded facility in the Southwest Wing. With these improvements, the mall spans 1,430,500 leasable square feet. It fulfills plans for a 5-anchor shopping venue envisaged back in the late 1960s.