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!
An October 7, 1964 ad heralding the grand opening of a Texan Gibson's Discount Center. Note the price of an entire carton of cigarettes...$2.50! This chain had a meteoric rise and fall during the 1960s and '70s. Shady business practices, lawsuits and probes by the Federal Trade Commission brought about its demise in the early 1980s.
Advert from Gibson's Discount Centers