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!
Miami's Midway Mall
A rendering of the prospective MIDWAY MALL. The complex opened, in late 1970, as Greater Miami's first purpose-built enclosed shopping center. Drawing from Sadkin & Strawgate
A shiny new Woolco became the first operational MIDWAY MALL tenant, in September 1970. It was the chain's 144th store.
Advert from the F.W. Woolworth Company
The original MIDWAY MALL logo was a depiction of its "Double M" Main Entrance.