MALL HALL OF FAME

New Orleans' Lakeside Center The Crescent City's first shopping mall opened for business in March 1960. It was anchored by Big E...

In this circa-1957 rendering, the prospective LAKESIDE CENTER mall includes a 5-story office tower. Drawing from Charles R. Colbert, Arc...

The original open-air complex incorporated around 415,000 leasable square feet and contained thirty-two stores and services. Its parking...

The Pontchartrain Causeway opened -as a 2-lane structure- in 1956. Causeway Boulevard, leading to the 23.7 mile bridge, passes directly ...

This rendering, titled "Bird Cage Mall," shows the concourse of the prospective shopping complex. Apparently, the mild climate ...

Various additions and modifications are shown in a circa-1977 layout. The mall was enclosed in 1967-'68. The  Lakeside C...

Zooming through time, we come to the LAKESIDE CENTER of 2009. The mall underwent major changes in the 1980s and '90s. An East M...

The new Macy's encompassed 3-levels and came with an adjacent parking garage. The LAKESIDE mall now covered around 1,295,...

And now, we embark on a Google Maps Street View tour of LAKESIDE CENTER, circa-March 2011. Our excursion begins on the north side of...

As an unwritten law states, a shopping complex must be renovated every 10 years, else it will loose favor with the (fickle) buying p...

LAKESIDE CENTER Veterans Memorial and North Causeway Boulevards Jefferson Parish (Metairie), Louisiana The first shopping mall in the Ba...

New Orleans' Oakwood Center The second major shopping hub in Greater New Orleans was also the region's first fully-enclosed ret...

OAKWOOD CENTER was anchored by locally-owned D.H. Holmes. Holmes Oakwood , which was the fifth branch in the chain, originally ...

The physical structure of the complex remained virtually unchanged until the mid-1980s. A renovation installed a Food Court and the nam...

In August 2005, the mall was severely damaged and vandalized as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The common area section was closed for nearly...

In a circa-2014 layout, the restored West Wing  is indicated in light gray. It houses the aforementioned Dick's Sporting Goods, a reloca...

We conclude our OAKWOOD CENTER excursion with 2020s photos of the mall's interior. Here, we see the entry of the 9-bay Food Court. Ven...

OAKWOOD MALL West Bank Expressway / US 90 and Terry Parkway Jefferson Parish (Terrytown), Louisiana The second shopping mall in -or ar...