Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Our Malls, Ourselves, Oct. 18, 2004; pp. 243+.
"It's not clean who first emblazoned T-shirts with slogans like 'Born to Shop' and 'I Shop, Therefore I Am." But we do know the starting point for the modern shopping culture that gave rise to those cliches. It began in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, where a shopping center called Southdale opened in October 1956, a year after the FORTUNE 500 made its debut." (FORTUNE) The author reveals the history of the mall and examines how it "forever changed American shopping and retailing."
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Architectural design Chain stores Department stores Discount houses (Retail trade) Shopping Shopping malls Social change Suburbs