The Eugene Mall was a car-free zone in the heart of Eugene, Oregon, United States, designed to encourage pedestrian access to shopping and entertainment areas. Dedicated on February 13, 1971, the mall opened amid three days of fanfare and dreams of a revitalized downtown. 

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 In 1957 Stanley Whitman acquired the site of a former United States Army barracks and World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Bal Harbour, Florida. He built an open air shopping mall that opened in 1965, with stores including FAO Schwarz, Abercrombie & Fitch and Martha's.

 

The shopping center with a built-in spring The main mall is 952' long with a totally air-conditioned enclosed year round atmosphere. The mall roof is translucent, giving an outdoor atmosphere indoor. Opened in 1965 with Rich's and JCPenney as main anchors.

 Old Orchard opened in October 1956 with Marshall Field and Company, Saks Fifth Avenue, and The Fair Department Store. It had free parking for 6,000 cars.

 

The Mall is a completely enclosed, air-conditioned shopping center complex containing thirty-four stores in a nine acre structure. Tenants include two department stores, a supermarket, a theatre, family restaurant, and numerous specialty shops. Located on New York State Rte 17 midway between Elmira, and Corning, New York. 

Hanging planters, fountains and pools create a pleasant atmosphere at this beautiful shopping center. 

 

This north entrance fountain is one of four interior fountains that enhance the beauty of the largest enclosed center in the Northwest. Here we see two "shoppers" enjoying themselves.

The wide completely enclosed corridors provide leisurely shopping for the patrons of the 76 stores which are located in this $40 million complex. Beautiful landscaping makes shopping a pleasure.

This is one of the many entrances to the largest enclosed shopping center in the Pacific Northwest. The primary shopping area consists of about 750,000 residents of the southern Puget Sound region. Located adjacent to Interstate Highway 5 there are 76 stores under one roof with heating and air-conditioning for the convenience of all.

This aerial of the Mall shows Mt. Rainier sixty miles to the east. The Shopping Center consists of 900,000 square feet of space all under one roof and covers an overall area of 85 acres. There is parking for 7200 vehicles. Located adjacent to Interstate Highway 5 there are 76 stores completely heated and air-conditioned for the utmost in shopping convenience.

 

This aerial view shows the newest air-conditioned shopping mall in Arizona, with famous Camel-back Mountain in the background. The center houses its many stores offering merchandise or service in a constant comfortable temperature, winter and summer. Birds and fish flourish in the mall and fountains perform to delight shop pers and visitors.

44th Street and E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona Viewing the Tropical Fish Aquarium in Thomas Mall, the newest and largest air-conditioned shopping. center in the entire southwest.

44th Street & E. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, Arizona The illuminated Playing Fountain in Thomas Mall, the newest and largest air-conditioned shopping center in the entire southwest.

44th Street and E. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, Arizona The Tropical Bird Cages at Thomas Mail, the newest and largest air conditioned shopping center in the entire southwest.

 Regency Square Mall opened in 1967, a $12 million project by Regency Centers. Originally it had a  JCPenney, along with May-Cohens, Furchgottss, Woolworth and the Piccadilly restaurant. 

When it opened it had over 50 stores, being the largest air-conditioned shopping mall in the southeast. The main attraction was the spectacular waterfall fountain.

 Opened on October 4, 1951 with 44 stores, a theater, a bank and an amusement park, it was (at the time of opening) the world's largest suburban mall. The Jordan Marsh store was the third largest (in diameter) unsupported dome in the world after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

 Eastridge Shopping Center opened on May 17, 1971 with  Macy's, Liberty House, J. C. Penney, Joseph Magnin Co., Woolworth and Sears as main anchors. It was a filming location for The Candidate (1972) and Logan's Run (1976). The metal statue inside the fountain was made Stephanie Scuris.

EASTRIDGE SHOPPING CENTER, the largest in the West, is a shopper's paradise comprising over 160 shops and four major department stores under one roof.  Ice arena and 9,000 parkign spaces.The three climate controlled levels are unique in their bold design. Capitol Expressway, Tully and Quimby Roads, San Jose, California | Photos by Del Carlo

 

Here are 28 television-inspired gift suggestions that ought to make life a bit easier this year for those who find themselves engaged in what is politely called "last-minute Christmas shopping." Included are: (1) green upholstered chair which swivels, $39.95; (2) yellow hassock on slim legs, $21; (3) Howdy Doody doll, $4.98; (4) satin blouse, $10.98 and (5) fireside pants, $14.95, modeled by TV actress Sandu Scott; (6) Ding Dong School railroad, $4.98; (7) tiny chafing dish, $2.98; (8) large copper chafing dish, $29.95; and (9) copper electric coffee-maker, $29.95. Also (10) electric popcorn popper, $9.95; (11) rack for glasses, $2; (12) twin copper ice buckets, $25 each; or, (13) the copper and glass cart, $170, in- cluding the buckets; (14) snack table with glass top, $4.50; (15) large wooden bowl, $9.95 and (16) match- ing small bowls, $1.59 each; (17) chafing dish, $24.95; (18) rack of four folding tray tables, $9.98; (19) children's plastic rocking chair, $12.95; (20) Jerry Mahoney dummy, $14.95; (21) Haleloke and wardrobe in fitted trunk $11.98; (22) Superman costume, $6.98; (23) TV lamp with antenna built into shade, $9.98; (24) wood and copper ice bucket, $20; (25) glasses and cocktail pitcher, $7.98 (26) three stack tables, $12.95; (27) wrought iron swivel table, $9.98, and (28) Ding Dong hassock, $4.98. 

Gifts assembled and photographed at Gimbels, New York.

 

Relatively, PRECIPITRON could be called a new device. Yet it emerged from the Westinghouse Research Laboratories over ten years ago. Since that time, over fifty million cfm of cleaning capacity has been installed for commerce and industry.

Illustrated here are a few of the retail stores where management weighed all factors-and installed PRECIPITRON.

In this suburban branch of a metropolitan store, walls and ceilings are spotless, without cleaning and painting in almost four years. Notice particularly that there are no smudge marks around the ventilating outlets. This is an acid test of any air cleaning installation.

 

The two things "Doc" James Earl Webb likes best in the world are the laughter of happy people and the ring of a busy cash register. Doc, a peculiar blend of merchant prince and leprechaun, has industriously promoted both these sounds for over a quarter of a century in the resort city of St. Petersburg, Florida, where he operates a retail store, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world.

Called "Webb's City," the store sprawls over four city blocks, and nobody-not even Doc Webb himself-ever knows just what shenanigans he may run into in any of its fifty-seven departments. At various times his enthusiastic customers have found a cooch show in the large basement cafeteria, an elaborate three-ring circus on the parking lot (with Doc Webb himself as one of the principal clowns), and a man milking a rattlesnake in the main window of the store.

The eager response of his patrons to his frenzied hurly-burly simply delights this impresario. A short, slight fifty- five-year-old with a 21-million-dollar business, he has never let his success inhibit his enthusiasm for a newer and wackier pitch.

But Doc Webb's vaudeville veneer barely hides the hard core of an astute businessman. He exploits merchandising methods that have been called everything from "unorthodox" to "dirty tricks." He sells butter for 19 cents a pound when it sells everywhere else for 79 cents; automobile tires for $9.95 when they sell everywhere else for $17. These remarkable sales are usually met by loud cries of distress and rage from his competitors.

Doc is accustomed to these outbursts. Every once in a while he plasters his store windows with a competitor's advertisement announcing a sale at prices the advertiser fondly believes are attractively slashed. But Doc stabs him to the heart by placing over the ad the simple, stark statement: "This merchandise is now on sale here for ten-percent less." Sometimes Doc advertises a sale without even mentioning the name of his store. This, he believes, is a subtle way of informing the world that only Webb can sell merchandise at such ridiculously low prices.

 Designed by the architecture firm of Herbert H. Johnson Associates of Washington, DC, The Bel Air Mall opened in Mobile Alabama on August 14, 1967. It was developed by WKRG-TV founder Kenneth R. Giddens, William Lyon and Jay Altmayer. The main anchors were Sears and Hammel's with a retail corridor of 50 stores. The interior was decorated with 9  Grecian statues. Separated from the main building was a Ford Trucks dealer. 

 

Eastwood Mall opened on August 25, 1960, developed by Newman H. Waters, being the second enclosed shopping mall in the Southeastern United States. It had 43 stores including  J.J. Newberry, S.S. Kresge Corporation, J.C. Penney, Kroger and Colonial Stores. It had an year round temperature of 73 degrees. 

At the Christmas of 1964 the mall was expanded with a Cinerama movie theater.

 

MORE goods are sold in this building at than anywhere else on earth. It is the Chicago Merchandise Mart, a mammoth storekeepers' store where manufacturers can display their wares on 3,400,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Last year 265.000 professional buyers, chiefly from the great and small stores of the Middle West, visited the Merchandise Mart to buy $448,400,000 worth of goods. January and July are the Mart's big months. On Jan. 16 the Mart wound up a record two-week furniture show during which 10,000 buyers from every State and nine foreign countries bought $45,000,000 worth of goods. On Jan. 25 the Women's & Children's Dresswear Show will open. 

Exhibitors in the Merchandise Mart find that pr-fessional buyers are just as susceptible as retail consumers to the wiles of showmanship. The Home-furnishings Division dressed its salesmen up as Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt et al. But as usual the chief aid to sales was feminine beauty. Even the curtain manufacturers, after some hard thought, found a way to use a girl in their exhibit. She appears adjusting her garter behind a lacy curtain.