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!

Center Court and its forty-foot-high fountain. This water feature was surrounded by several retail kiosks. One of these (Ah! Nuts) may be seen in the far right of this image.
Photo from Malls of America Blogspot


A close-up view of the Ah! Nuts kiosk. This photo is a definitive example of a typical dark (artificially-lit), early 1970s mall. The prevailing logic of the time was that the bright interior of a store (such as Fifth Avenue Card Shops) would draw customers into the establishment.
Photo from Malls of America Blogspot