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Previously on LiveMalls
Eastland Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina
mall and department store photography bordering on the obsessive.
These pictures of Belk-Beery, Independence Mall, were taken the week before the store opened in July 1979. The escalator well featured a glass-sided elevator -- framed by antique brick, marble, and wrought iron -- in the style of the antebellum houses in Wilmington.