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!
A montage of store nameplates from the 1960s and '70s. Over the years, these would be replaced by trademarks for Palais Royal, Kay-Bee Toys, Walter Pye's and Foot Locker. In its early days, NORTHLINE was one of the select few malls that had a Britts department store. Other "Britts malls" included Annapolis' PAROLE PLAZA, Fort Lauderdale's CORAL RIDGE PLAZA and Sioux Falls, South Dakota's WESTERN MALL.