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OUR FIRST ALL-NEW MALL ARTICLE IN YEARS

HAS RECENTLY BEEN POSTED! 

North Central Texas'

SHER-DEN MALL 

Joined Our Directory!

Photo from https://photos.google.com / Jimmy Ramsey

Click here...

https://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%27%20Sher-Den%20Mall

On our website, you'll find illustrated histories and other ephemera
about America's very first regional shopping centers and malls...
from Seattle's NORTHGATE CENTER
to New York City's CROSS COUNTY CENTER...
and down to Dallas' BIG TOWN MALL.
Moreover, you'll find articles about malls
in every one of the 50 states!

Four MHoF articles 

have been improved and expanded! 

First, we have a nineteen-photo spread 

taken inside the new JOHN WANAMAKER store

at Long Island's GARDENS OF GREAT NECK CENTER...

All from May 1951.

http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/search/label/Gardens%20of%20Great%20Neck%20Center

Next, we have a twenty-photo HALLE'S collection, 

taken at Greater Cleveland's WESTGATE CENTER.

This photo tour dates back to March 1954.

http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/search/label/Cleveland%20Malls

A twenty-three-photo spread has been added,

depicting the brand new GIMBELS WESTCHESTER

at Yonkers, New York's CROSS COUNTY CENTER.  

These images are from September 1955.

http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20York%27s%20Cross%20County%20Center

Lastly, our twenty-photo tour

of GIMBELS VALLEY STREAM 

-at Long Island's GREEN ACRES CENTER-

shows the store as it appeared in March 1957.

http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/search/label/Long%20Island%27s%20Green%20Acres%20Center

Be sure to check out our second sibling site!

is a homage to the vintage 
1940s, '50s and '60s house trailer.

Please click here...
http://portablelevittown.blogspot.com 

Some may deride the contemporary American shopping mall as a shop till you drop, cathedral of conspicuous consumption; a manifestation of our society's affluenza epidemic. In many ways, such an assessment is accurate. However, this was not always the case. In the early days, the typical mall-type center was markedly different than the modern model.

In the 1950s and '60s, the shopping mall was an "everything in one place place". There would be one, or even two, 5 & 10-type stores, a drug store, supermarket, bowling alley, professional concourse of medical offices and even a church or chapel. Tenant mixes were geared more toward middle market stores, providing things that people actually needed. Also, fashion shows, pageants and public events were held regularly, making the early shopping mall a true community center.