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!

The new PAVILION was anchored by a freestanding Hills, which was rebranded by Ames soon after its completion. Ames shut down in 2002, with the store structure eventually re-opening as the All Seasons Marketplace flea market. Today, the building houses At Home.
Photo from Erie County, Pennsylvania 


To keep from having to pay exorbitant "common area maintence" fees, McDonald's bolted from an in-mall location. The freestanding store seen here served its first Happy Meal in 2007.
Photo from Erie County, Pennsylvania