Old Orchard Shopping Center
Skokie, Illinois - circa late '60s
Aerial view of the Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Illinois in the late, groovy 1960s.
Mall history: 1956 - present
Developer: Philip M. Klutznick
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Info from Wikipedia
Resource articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Previous entries: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(Study images courtesy and © the Skokie Public Library)
posted by Keith @ 11/15/2006
3 Comments:
Don't anyone panic, but this looks as if it could actually qualify as the first "lifestyle" center.
Scott
I wouldn't classify it as a lifestyle center as the mall was quite separate from the parking area. To me, a lifesytle center means you can drive right up to the stores and walk in from the parking lot.
Old Orchard has become huge and bloated these days. I was there in September and they were bulldozing the former Saks Fifth Avenue building. Neither Bloomingdale's now Marshall Field had many customers the day I was there.
Why is that everytime I go there I never find a parking spot. But it isn't often that I go there. I mean I can't exactly afford the over-priced and over-bloated crap nor would I want to pay the prices if I could afford it.
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