10 That Changed America

Streets | Kalamazoo Mall, Kalamazoo, MI

In the late ’50s and ’60s, shoppers were abandoning traditional downtowns for suburban malls. See how Kalamazoo turned "Main Street" into a pedestrian mall, a pattern that would play out with mixed results across the nation.

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