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Pasay City, SM Mall of Asia (Philippines)
As of right now, the 4th largest mall in the Philippines, and the 11th largest in the world. Unused 5″ x 7″ card. Grade: 1
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Yakima, Yakima Mall (Washington, USA)
The Mall closed in 2003. Seems like Valley Mall was too much competition. Unused Smith Western card CT-937, serrated edges and with some aging. Grade: 2
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Parkdale Mall, Beaumont (Texas, USA)
The Mall opened in 1973, so this card logically is newer than that — but not by much. Unused. Grade: 1
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Rabaul, Vunapope Mission and Tropicana (Papua New Guinea)
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ Hyndsight views card No. 5. The stamp area bears this legend: “I like to be seen. PLEASE don’t send me in an envelope.” Here’s something that might interest you: the Tropicana area burned out on 6th March 2014. A YouTube video by Christopher H shows the aftermath. But we don’t know if the photo on this card was before or after that — and it interests us because after a great deal of futile searching, we found this card, and some others, at the “new” Tropicana. So there! Grade: 1
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Birmingham, Riverchase Galleria (Alabama, USA)
Among other features, “over three miles of neon”. Birmingham! Who knew! Birmingham citizens do. Unused Alabama postcard. Grade: 1
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Fort Union Trading Post (North Dakota, USA)
On your first look at this unused card, you might straightaway think “military” but the caption goes out of its way to explain that this is not so: “Established in 1828, this site was not a military installation, but a genuine trading post designed to do business with Plains Indians.” OK, OK, we admit, not a shopping mall in the conventional sense, but if it isn’t that, then what? Grade: 1
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Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne (Australia)
Gratefully, the caption on the back of this unused card identifies what you see: Exhibition Building, Federation Square, trams, Queen Victoria Market, Eureka Tower, and Melbourne Museum. Grade: 1
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Edgewater Plaza Shopping City (Biloxi, Mississippi USA)
Also known as Edgewater Mall, Wikipedia tells us this is “an enclosed shopping mall in Biloxi. Opened in 1963, it features Belk, Dillard’s, and JCPenney as its anchor stores.” It goes on to report that “the mall was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Sears was the first store to reopen after the hurricane. Dillard’s, which suffered the most damage from the hurricane, was rebuilt and did not reopen until 2008. In June 2017, Sears announced that its store at the mall would close in September 2017, dropping the number of anchors from 4 to 3.” As for the postcard itself, unused, serrated edges, Plastichrome OS-229 (111898). Grade: 1
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Historic Adelaide (South Australia)
Views are identified in the caption, and include the Adelaide Railway Station, Art Gallery, Adelaide Arcade, St. Peters Cathedral, Palm House – Botanic Gardens, and Old Parliament House. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Rundle Mall, Adelaide (Australia)
The artwork is called “A Day Out,” from 1999. The card, somewhat later and unused. Grade: 1
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Myrtle Square Mall (South Carolina, USA)
The Mall opened in 1975 and (per Wikipedia) was “the first enclosed shopping mall in Myrtle Beach”! Damned by faint praise, inevitably and inexorably something better came along and Myrtle Square was completely gone by 2006. Gone but not forgotten: here’s the unused postcard. Grade: 1
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South Mall at Mayfair, Gimbels-Schusters (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA)
The Mall opened in 1958 and is still there. Gimbels? No. Unused, somewhat aging L.L. Cook card 28276-B (274Z). Grade: 2
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The Galleria, Dallas (Texas, USA)
Developed in 1982 (which helps date the card), and still going. Unused A-W card AW-98. Grade: 1
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Pike Place Market, Seattle (Washington, USA)
Here’s a slightly edited entry from Wikipedia: “Pike Place Market … opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers’ markets in the US. Named after the central street, Pike Place runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street, (is) Seattle’s most popular tourist destination and the 33rd most visited tourist attraction in the world, with more than 10 million annual visitors.” We knew none of this. The card was mailed in 2020 with a round Global Forever stamp, and a significant abrasion on the lower right front corner. Grade: 5
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Roatan, Mahogany Bay Center (Honduras)
Essentially a cruise terminal mall, on this unused card. Grade: 1
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Minneapolis, Crystal Court, IDS Center (Minnesota, USA)
IDS Center was completed in 1972, and for now is the tallest building in Minnesota at a height of 792 feet depending on how one measures it. IDS was constructed as the headquarters of Investors Diversified Services, Inc.—now Ameriprise Financial — and consists of five parts: the 57-story IDS Tower itself; an 8-story annex building; the 19-story Marquette Hotel; and a 2-story retail building originally dominated by Woolworth’s. These four buildings are joined by the 7-story Crystal Court as you see in the postcard. The unused card’s caption explains even more. Grade: 1
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Milwaukee, The Grand Avenue (Wisconsin, USA)
You might think: what’s there to say about a card with a shopping mall? Wikipedia to the rescue: “The Avenue (previously known as The Grand Avenue, The Shops of Grand Avenue and Shops of Grand Avenue) is an urban shopping plaza currently under renovation that spans three city blocks in the downtown neighborhood of Westown. The Avenue has been the only major indoor shopping facility in Milwaukee with the closing of Capitol Court in 2000 and the Northridge Mall in 2003 due to competition from newly renovated malls in nearby suburbs.” True now or not, this unused card makes it look Grand indeed. Grade: 1
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Houston, The Galleria (Texas, USA)
At least we believe this unused card shows the Galleria in Houston, and not somewhere else, because Houston has a Galleria and this card was published there. It also helps that the Google search for Houston shows similar pictures! Grade: 1
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Leicester, multiple views (England)
Mailed in 1980, this card has two different stamps, an overlapping air mail sticker, a clear postmark, and a well-hidden but still-there thumbtack hole. All these views are identified in the caption on the reverse, including “Haymarket Centre”. Grade: 4
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Margaret River (WA) (Australia)
Mailed (we think) in the early 1990s, with a partly torn stamp and faint postmark. That surfing is at the mouth of the Margaret River, and the shopping centre in the town. Grade: 4
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Frankfurt am Main, multiple views (Germany)
All eight views are identified on the front and in expanded form on the back of this unused card. These include the “MyZeil” Shoppingcenter (sic), and Cider in a special jug called Bembel. Something for everyone! Grade: 1
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Houston, The Galleria, Ice Skating Rink (Texas, USA)
Unused Astrocard AC-86-A, with serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Bribie Island, Queensland – multiple views (Australia)
Bribie Island is the smallest of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay. It’s 34km long, and 8km at its widest. One view held that the name came from a corruption of a mainland word for it, Boorabee, meaning koala; however, the correct Joondaburri name for the island is Yarun. Bribie Island tapers to a long spit at its most northern point near Caloundra, and is separated from the mainland by Pumicestone Passage. Most of the island is uninhabited national park (55.8 sq. km) and forestry plantations but the southern end of the island has been intensively urbanised as part of the City of Moreton Bay. A bridge from Sandstone Point on the mainland to Bellara and Bongaree was completed in 1963. And this card? Mailed in 1976, the card’s views are all identified, more or less, including the Bongaree Shopping Centre. Stamp, air mail sticker, and the postmark are there. Card has serrated edges. Grade: 1
