Sep 6, 2020
This 1958 flyover photo shows Harundale Mall- the very first enclosed, air conditioned mall east of the Mississippi River. With “major stores” (the word anchor hadn’t yet entered common use) including a Hochschild Kohn's department store, it was the highlight of the Harundale development, until it was increasingly outmoded by bigger, newer competitors. Despite community pushback, the increasingly blighted mall closed it’s doors in 1997, to make way for the Harundale Plaza development a year or two later.