The Day Big Town Mall Opened Its Doors
On February 26, 1959, and somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 people showed up to walk around a shopping mall in Mesquite, Texas. Think about that number.
Fifteen thousand people in a Dallas suburb, standing inside something most of them had never experienced – a fully enclosed, air-conditioned shopping center.
Big Town Mall sat at 800 Big Town Shopping Center, just off U.S. Highway 80 East and Loop 12, on 80 acres about 7 miles east of downtown Dallas…