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!
Arcadia-based Hinshaw's dedicated their WHITTIER QUAD store in March 1953. One of two locations, it was shuttered in January 1992.
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Pasadena's F.C. Nash Company also operated a store in the original QUAD. There were other Nash's locations in Pasadena, Alhambra, Arcadia, Fullerton and the POMONA VALLEY CENTER mall, in Pomona. This general merchandise chain folded in the early-1970s.
Drawing from F.C. Nash & Company
A view of the original -open-air- WHITTIER QUAD. Here, we see the northern shopping concourse, with Bank of America on the left and Barker Brothers Furniture on the right.
Photo from "TokyoMagic!"