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!

By the mid-'80s, UNIVERSITY CENTER had four retail rival malls...with a fifth under construction. A 92,000 square foot South Wing was added (in dark gray). This included a 6-plex cinema. Unfortunately, the keeping up with the malls measure wasn't entirely successful. By the late 1990s, the shopping center was on life support.