1950s woman writing a shopping list with daughter - Afro Newspaper/gado/Getty Images The 20th century brought with it a tsunami of innovations for the home cook and shopper. The first modern grocery ...

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

WARREN — The Trumbull County Historical Society will offer a downtown Warren walking tour focusing on shopping in the 1950s. Business was booming in downtown Warren during the 1950s, and the tour will ...

Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Minnesota claims not one but two shopping mall superlatives: the first and the biggest. Southdale in Edina became the ...

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. ...

A trip to the Baltimore Museum of Industry reveals the little worlds of neighborhoods and shopping in Baltimore about 60 years ago. Curators there have dipped into the institution’s archives to create ...

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 ...

The 20th century brought with it a tsunami of innovations for the home cook and shopper. The first modern grocery store appeared in 1916, where customers could pull their own items off store shelves.