When Ala Moana Center opened on Aug. 13, 1959, it featured 680,000 square feet of retail space, 87 stores and 4,000 parking ...

Southdale Center in Edina, Minn., America’s first enclosed mall, in the 1950s. Shopping centers may have been pedestrian-friendly in their way, but they were nevertheless islands in a sea of parking. ...

When the first malls opened in the 1950s they were such an achievement that they inspired even Walt Disney. By the 1980s, the mall had become the center of American social life and accounted for the ...

Eastern Washington’s largest mall began as a cluster of shops surrounding an Albertson’s grocery store in the 1950s. Today, it houses a movie theater and several remaining department stores after ...