Malls have always been a hangout for bored teenagers or families looking for something to do on a rainy day, but did you know they've been around for a lot longer than you might think? Long before ...

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 ...

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. ...

PHOENIX — A 1950s-era shopping mall in Phoenix could soon be the site for Amazon’s second headquarters, the Phoenix Business Journal reported on Tuesday. Park Central Mall, the first shopping mall in ...

Southdale’s architect had a vision to thwart the cold and create an indoor town square in Edina where it was always 75 ...

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 ...

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A train ride that used to delight children at Kiddytown, a small amusement park that operated in the 1950s and 60s in Norridge on land that later became Harlem Irving Park shopping mall, was found in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The shopping mall as we know it became popular in the United States in the 1950s as a ...