MALL HALL OF FAME

Montgomery's Normandale Shopping City NORMANDALE SHOPPING CITY was one of the first regional retail centers in the Southeast and also th...

A nighttime view of the NORMANDALE Kwik Chek supermarket. Obviously, it was a high-end ultra-modern structure.  Photo from http://digital....

In a color snapshot, we see the NORMANDALE Loveman's of Alabama. The store featured the first set of escalators in Montgomery. Photo fro...

MONTGOMERY MALL, the city's first fully-enclosed shopping center, opened in 1970 and was shuttered in 2008. In March 2015, the structu...

Signage announcing NORMANDALE CENTRE was likely erected as part of a 1990s face lift, when new store fronts and green awnings were instal...

Birmingham's Eastwood Mall "A masterpiece of shopping luxury never before seen in the Deep South," so proclaimed the he...

An interior view of the original EASTWOOD shopping concourse. In the foreground is a bird aviary, which was something of a standard fi...

EASTWOOD circa-1981. Although the complex has not been physically expanded since 1966, much interior space has been reconfigured. The super...

A shiny new mega mall opened in the vicinity of EASTWOOD in 1986. As a keeping up with RIVERCHASE GALLERIA measure, EASTWOOD was substantial...

Competition from RIVERCHASE GALLERIA, THE SUMMIT lifestyle center, and other B'ham area malls, eventually took a toll on EASTWOOD. After...

Heart of Huntsville Mall A logo for the original, open-air, HEART OF HUNTSVILLE MALL. At the time of its official dedication, in November ...

Rocket City's HEART OF HUNTSVILLE MALL is dedicated on November 1, 1961. Officiating at the ribbon-cutting are US Senator John Sparkman ...

HEART OF HUNTSVILLE MALL was joined by a smaller complex, known as DUNNAVANT'S MALL, in November 1963. Both shopping centers were situat...

  The HEART OF HUNTSVILLE star had fallen by the late 1980s, when the complex had been bested by newer and larger shopping hubs in its trade...

HEART OF HUNTSVILLE MALL South Memorial Parkway / US 231 & 431 and Clinton Avenue West Huntsville, Alabama By the early 1960s, Alabama...

Huntsville's Dunnavant's Mall Huntsville's second shopping mall was officially dedicated in November 1963. It housed the first -...

With no room for any sizable expansion, and with four larger malls in its trade area, DUNNAVANT'S MALL soon outlived its usefulness as a...

DUNNAVANT'S MALL South Memorial Parkway / US 231 & 431 and Governors Drive Southwest Huntsville, Alabama Plans for Huntsville's ...

Huntsville's The Mall The third Rocket City shopping mall was a high-end, Mid-Century Modern structure. Promoted as simply THE MALL...

City Stores officials congratulate John F. Breyer, Loveman's president, at the official dedication of a new THE MALL store. Photo from C...