Mesabi Mall Woolworth Store

Hibbing, Minnesota - 1971

Woolworth store at Mesabi Mall, right around the time of the mall's original Grand Opening in 1971.

Note that this Woolworth facade is sporting the chain's then-new American style logo with the F. W. dropped from the name (you can also see it here). This is the groovier seventies Woolworth logo design I grew up with and it sure brings back lots of great childhood memories!

Mall history: 1971 - present
Current website: n/a
Current aerial view
Previous entries: none

The Daily Mall Reader: Mall of America Expansion

A daily dose of mall-related reading...

"Mall of America wants biggest mall title"

The Associated Press - Thu Mar 22, 2007

(Excerpt) ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Mall of America was the biggest indoor mall in the country when it opened in 1992. It wants its top spot back.

The mall, now the nation's third-largest by retail square footage, is planning an expansion that would more than double its size by adding a 6,000-seat music theater, hotels, and an ice rink.

The $1.78 billion project would add new stores, too, including a Bass Pro outdoor retailer, and would connect the mall to the nearby IKEA home furnishings store.

Read the full article here.

Powers Department Store at Highland Village Shopping Center

St. Paul, Minnesota - December 29, 1960

Exterior of the Powers "Highland" department store that was once located in the Highland Village Shopping Center. As this is more of a strip mall shopping plaza and not an enclosed mall, I'll dispense with the usual "mall" info summary at the bottom of this post (as I usually do with these), but I did uncover that this little strip mall first opened (very humbly) in 1939, and was then appreciably expanded throughout the '40s and '50s.

Highland Village Shopping Center, which it appears is still around, doesn't seem to maintain a website, but that's OK. This one's simply about this great picture--and that classy store logo! (Which can also be seen in my Knollwood Plaza entry.)

(Study image courtesy and © Minnesota Historical Society)

MOA Galleria - Knollwood Plaza Cows

St. Louis Park, Minnesota - June 21, 1960

Region VII Dairy Day champions and their animals at Knollwood Plaza shopping center. These guys are probably headed for The Leather Loft.

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(Study image courtesy and © Minnesota Historical Society)