Tuesday, 29 September 2015



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are given source credit,
with links often provided to the original websites.
Hopefully, this will be sufficient to cover their usage.

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Please post a comment. I will delete it or them.

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were calculated using Google Earth and / or Google Maps.
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...



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!

Sunday, 20 September 2015


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.



Next, we have a twenty-photo HALLE'S collection, 
taken at Greater Cleveland's WESTGATE CENTER.
This photo tour dates back to March 1954.



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.



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.