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!
GALLERIA I as it appears today. Its skating facility, now known as Polar Ice, is among the few shopping mall ice rinks still in existence in the United States. During the mid-century years, ice skating rinks were a popular shopping mall attraction.
Photo from Wikipedia / "PostOak"
A Level 2 view of the mall's GALLERIA IV expansion. A Nordstrom nameplate is seen in the distance.
Photo from www.labelscar.com / Jonah Norason