Pleasant Family Shopping blog

A blog devoted to the retail industry--stores, shopping centers, etc.--as it developed during the era of the regional city as dominated by automobile-centric mobility. Great posts, great images.

On another note, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog (the paper is no longer published but the website still exists and is updated) has a feature on Seattle's Northgate Mall, "How Northgate Mall shaped the nation," which unbeknownst to me, is the first shopping mall called a "mall" and is one of the earliest such shopping centers in the U.S., pre-dating some of the earlier such shopping centers in Michigan and Minnesota (home of the first enclosed mall, because of the tough winters).