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!

A site plan from 1977 shows the recently-added Brandeis branch. The mall's first anchor nameplate change rebranded the center department store under a Younker-Kilpatricks banner. The mall's Fox theater has also been split into and renamed the Fox Twin. With these -and other- modifications, the mall enclosed 157 stores and services. 
  

By 1991, the Grand Cafe Food Court has been built in an abandoned sporting goods store (originally a supermarket). Brandeis closed after that chain was absorbed by Younkers, in 1987. The store operated as a Younkers West specialty store, which closed in June 1990. Theatrically speaking, the Fox Twin has merged with the Six West across the way. The combined venues are now known as the Westroads 8.