Malls

Interesting facts: The 1950's (specifically after 1956) enclosed malls started to be built everywhere. They were the most striking innovations in retail shopping. A mall is typically a string of stores or a large building that contains many stores in it and is run by a separate management firm unit. To attract people, they often contain restaurants, banks, theaters, and service stations. To aid shoppers during the 1950s, many advances were made onto the shopping cart. A basket was added to the shopping cart and now there was advertising added onto the carts. Not only were shopping carts made more advanced, but also automatic doors were invented in 1954. However, they were not installed until 1960. Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton formed the brilliant idea that only made it easier for humans to become lazy. The mall was an easier and more efficient way for Americans to shop in the 1950s. The convenience of the malls lead to mass amounts of money, that was being put back into the already flourishing economy. The 1950's (specifically after 1956) enclosed malls started to be built everywhere. They were the most striking innovations in retail shopping

Historical analysis: Malls brought commercial stores out of the densely packed cities and into the suburbs.The first shopping mall was the Country Club Plaza founded by the J.C. Nichols Company in 1922, near Kansas City. However, it was not enclosed into one building. The very first enclosed mall was the Southdale, which opened in Edina, Minnesota in 1956. The expansions of shopping malls also lead to the development of “the suburbs.” The Mall helped fuel the economy even more because people were able to spend their money easier and faster do to the condense area of stores. Malls brought commercial stores out of the densely packed cities and into the suburbs

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