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 1956, the shiny new STANFORD CENTER spanned approximately 548,000 leasable square feet and featured forty-five stores and services. Original tenants included I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin, Roos Brothers, a Purity supermarket and Woolworth 5 & dime. Free parking was provided for 4,200 autos.

STANFORD CENTER TENANTS 1956:

THE EMPORIUM (with The Woodland's Restaurant) / I. MAGNIN / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with luncheonette) / PURITY MARKET / Bank of America / Blum's Restaurant / Chandler's Shoes / Crocker-Angio Bank / Donnelley's Hardware / Eat-Rite Restaurant / Edwards  Everything Travel Service / Gleim the Jeweler /  Hastings / Joseph Magnin / Lerner Shops / Livingston Brothers / Longs Drugs (with luncheonette)  / Roos Brothers / Sandy's Restaurant / See's Candies / Sommer & Kaufman Shoes / Stanford Shoe Repair / The Colony