North DeKalb Mall was an indoor shopping center east of Atlanta. You parked once and walked to every store along a covered corridor, out of the weather.
When it opened in 1965, it had a Rich’s, a supermarket, and a movie theater. The families it was built for lived in the DeKalb County neighborhoods nearby and had stopped wanting to drive downtown to shop.
It was also first. No other mall in the Atlanta area had been fully enclosed and air-conditioned before it. The ones that came after copied the idea…