Miracle Mile Shopping Center (Monroeville, PA)
Monroeville, Pennsylvania - circa 1950s
Vintage postcard view of the bustling Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Monroeville, PA, which opened in November of 1954, and was originally officially named Pittsburgh Miracle Mile Town & Country Shopping Center Inc.--thank the Shopping Gods it got shortened! Cool shot here of the mall's S. S. Kresge and Sun Drugs stores
Mall history: 1954 - present
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Previous entries: 1
Labels: '50s, 1950s, Kresge, Miracle Mile, Monroeville, Pennsylvania
posted by Keith @ 7/07/2007
4 Comments:
Just a thought: I Wonder if any zombies from DAWN OF THE DEAD ever wandered over to Miracle Mile from nearby Monroeville Mall back in the late '70s when the whole "dead rising" thing was going on?
LOL!!! Gotta see the original DotD film. I only saw the reamke a few years ago and didn't think it was all that. Was miracle Mile still around by the late 70s?
I like this postcard but I can't help but think this looks familiar. So I clicked on the other entry you have and saw a more distant shot of this place. Aha!
"Was miracle Mile still around by the late 70s?"
Scratch that question. Miracle Mile sounds like that was a discount department store back in the 60s and 70s. I got confused here.
Strip malls like this remind me of the days my mother used to stop at the Kresge store at this large strip mall called Fox Point Shopping Center (The pylon read Fox Point Mall) in Neenah WI. That place, considering how young I was at the time (4-6 yr old) was big and long...it was an 'L-shaped' strip. I still recall many of its tenants as well..nearly 25-30 total, Kresge, JCPenney and Pick n' Save Warehouse Foods among them being the anchors.
By the late 1970s, SS Kresge Co stores that still existed just became "KRESGE" during its final years in business (probably '77, when Kresge Co. rebranded to K-mart Corp., to '87), so read out the large all-caps triple-stroked neon sign above the only Kresge I ever went to.....in that very same mall.
Keith I noticed in some of your strip mall features, Kresge / Woolworth, Kresge / WT Grant, or Woolworth / WT Grant, existed in the SAME mall. Talk about competition even back then, not just today with Wal*Mart vs Target!
I'm sure though, the stores all differentiated enough from each other, despite overlap in some in-store departments, where they were all serviceable in some way.
Nice to read (in the article you also linked to in a previous post) that this strip mall has weathered the changes and is still thriving today. That is rare among huge strip malls like this.
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