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The Mystery Spot was the first "gravity-defying" tourist attraction in California and was the most prominent illusion-based tourist attraction in California in the mid-20th century. [20] It has been featured on BuzzFeed , and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and other newspapers, comic strips, and travel blogs for decades.
Westlake opened on April 20, 1951, making it one of the earliest malls in America; at the time, its 3,000-car parking area was the largest in America. [6]: 40–43 It was also the first community shopping center in the Bay Area. Its open-air pedestrian promenades allowed the center to be used for outdoor concerts, art shows, fairs, dances, and ...
Based on gross leasable area, the Great Mall of the Bay Area is the largest outlet mall and the 8th largest mall in California. It was once the largest mall in Northern California, but has now been surpassed by others. Like other malls, Great Mall also has a food court, which can be accessed through Entrance 4.
(10) Great Mall of the Bay Area – Milpitas – 1,366,123 sq ft (126,917.0 m 2) Las Americas Premium Outlets – San Ysidro; Ontario Mills – Ontario;
At the time of its construction, Sunvalley Shopping Center was said to be the largest air-conditioned regional shopping center in the world. [2] Developed by A. Alfred Taubman, [3] the shopping center opened on August 5, 1967 with a performance by Tony Martin and is 1,333,000 feet (406,000 meters) on two floors.
Bayfair Center (orig. Bay-Fair, later Bay Fair, Bayfair Mall) is a regional shopping mall and power center in San Leandro, California. It was among the first malls in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. Anchors are Target, Kohl's and a 16-screen Cinemark Century cinema. The Macy's anchor store closed in 2024.
A chapter in the 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel Less than Zero is set in The Beverly Center. Exterior shots for the 1986 low-budget horror film Chopping Mall were filmed along the Beverly Center - mainly along La Cienega Boulevard. Beverly Center was the setting of the 1991 film Scenes from a Mall starring Bette Midler and Woody Allen.
Alan Putter formed Amusement Management International in 1992 in Dallas, Texas. The initial company names was Fun Adventures Inc. After doing operations with the original Skycoaster in 1993, installed permanent Skycoasters in Dallas, next to the Malibu Speed Zone sit at I-35 and Walnut Hull, and in FIESTA Texas Theme park in San Antonio, Texas.