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. This site includes historical sections about regional department stores, discount stores, 5 & 10 stores and supermarkets. 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!
The third expansion of the mall -completed in November 1992- added the Picnic In The Garden food court to the south-facing facade. The 12-bay culinary complex featured an 85-foot-high quadrangular skylight. The completion of the Picnic facility expanded the gross leasable area of SOUTHLAND CENTER to approximately 1,053,000 square feet.
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Alas, Picnic In The Garden had become passe' by 2005. It was gutted, partially demolished and expanded southward into a new Best Buy. The towering skylight became part of the new store.
Photo from Wikipedia / "BooBooBay1"