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!
Chicago's famed Merchandise Mart helped bring the term "mart" into pop culture consciousness in the 1930s. With the end of the "big war," and beginning of America's suburban sprawl, "mart" was adopted as a buying industry buzz word. It was used to depict all in the world of discount retail that was new, exciting and ultra-modern.
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