Mid City Mall is a small indoor shopping center on Bardstown Road in Louisville, Kentucky, in the Highlands neighborhood east of downtown. It opened in 1962, one of the first enclosed malls in the state.
It was never a big regional mall. For most of its life, it ran on everyday tenants rather than fashion stores. A grocery store anchored it and became a lifeline for people without cars.
A public library branch operated inside the building, and a movie theater ran for nearly thirty years in a former department-store space. In the 1970s, the place was known as “Skid-City.”…