Name that strip mall!

A new weekly feature: can you identify this featureless commercial structure from a half-century old aerial photo?

November 3, 2009 at 4:58PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

We have an incredible resource in the Strib photo library: the 1960 Survey. It's Google Street View before such a thing was conceived. Before the people who conceived Google Street View were conceived. The far-sighted editors sent photographers to get every building downtown, and aerial views of the entire metro area. Of particular interest to your host are the suburban strip malls. Sometimes they stand alone at the fringe of development; sometimes they're nestled in the bosom of a fresh new development. Rather than tell you which one this is, I'll let you take a shot. Name that Shopping Center! Hints: it's still around. South half of metro. The surrounding area is remarkably unchanged. Answer later this afternoon.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If you can't name the joint, try the store:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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