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At a time when online shopping eclipses traditional retail andShopping centers are shutter for goodWe thought we would examine the days when the trips of the family shopping center reigned Supreme. Shopping centers were the best options for finding the latest fashion and technology and to get all your vacation purchases in time. For the new mothers, they were an inviting place to walk with their baby carts and remain social and adolescents of Mallrat nearly lived on weekends. Here we look at the scenery, the events and shops of the past in these vintage shopping center photos from the 1950s across the turn of the 21st century.

It is always an exciting time of the year where the village of Santa set up a store in the center of the mall. Nowadays, Santa's operations are high enough technology and bookings are the norm, but in 2000 downtown Lenox Square in Atlanta, Georgia, it was probably always come, first served and time. Waiting for your photo to be taken with Santa Claus could have been much more than an hour.

With more than 500 stores, an aquarium and 2 theme parks, the America Shopping Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, is an experience. In this archiving image, we have a glimpse of the Snoopy camp amusement park, which has finally became a world of Nickelodeon in 2006.

Formerly, the Galleria shopping center, this four-storey shopping center in the city center of Rochester, Minnesota, open to the public in 1989 and is now known as university place stores.

Oh yes, the shopping center contest. They still continue to date and tend to present expensive sports cars that it is difficult to believe that anyone really gains. This new Honda was exposed to the Colosseum Mall in Hampton, Virginia, in the mid-1970s.

This unnamed shopping center, photographed in 1995, seems to have been decorated patriotically for July 4th. The holidays of all kinds have always been important for shopping centers in the hope of attracting crowds of buyers seeking to save great holiday sales.

The first fashion bug opened in New Jersey in 1960. This picture of the 1970s was located in the Coliseum Shopping Center in Hampton, Virginia. The popular chain of shops lasted until 2013, when the last fashion bug is closed for good.

Although more recently photographed in 2017, this Bozeman, Montana, Food Avenue Avenue Express still has its conception of the 90s, making it an unexpected temporal capsule for Mall Mall Recor.

Famous photographerCAROL HIGHSMITH Captured this Food Tribunal in an unnamed shopping center in 1980. Highsmith installed to photograph shopping centers in different states and created a fairly fun historical record for American buyers.

You can make a Waldenbooks in this image of the 70's era of the Coliseum Shopping Center in Hampton, Virginia, which also highlights the importance of these downtown benches as a place for buyers to rest on their feet before continuing. , or wait for nearby shopaholic.

Major shopping centers have often boasted activities other than shops, such as amusement parks, cinemas and even rinks. This photo of 1980 was taken at the Galleria Shopping Center in Houston, Texas, by Highsmith.

Celebrities Promote projects Via Mall Tours was a popular marketing ploy in the 80s and 90s: fans flooded in their local shopping centers in the mosquito nets to see their favorite players and musicians. In this photo, actorsBoyd Kestner,Jay R. Ferguson,David Arquette,Rodney Harvey,Harold Pruett, andRobert Russer draw a large crowd as they promote theForeigners Television Series at Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks, California in 1990.

Another popular event in buyers in the 80s and 90s was the fashion show, with local children and teenagers featuring clothes available at shopping center stores. Here, two girls dressed descend a track at the Quinte shopping center in Canada in 1992.

The focal point of the Georgetown Park Mall image in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s is the impressive fountain. In the days leading up to mobile phones, friends and family that separate for their purchases, would choose a place to return back. The fountains, which seemed to be a feature of all shopping centers in the 1980s, were still central to serve as a meeting point.

This image of the shopping city of Outdoor Gulfgate in Houston, Texas, was taken in 1956, giving viewers a glimpse of the appearance and conviviality of an old shopping center. The same year, the Soutithdale Center, considered the first interior shopping center in the United States, open to Edina, Minnesota.

Although not technically a shopping center, this 1999 photo of Shoppers on the 57th New York Street is always an excellent historical recording of the kind of shops purchased at the end of the 20th century. These days, we would expect to see an Apple Store selling Apple watches, as opposed to a standalone swatch showcase.