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TIL in 1956, the first modern American mall opened-- the Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, Minnesota. Upon touring, architect Frank Lloyd Wright criticized it "had all the evils of the village street and none of its charm... You should have left downtown downtown." History proved Wright wrong.

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