Kalamazoo, Michigan downtown mall 1982. used to UK

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Kalamazoo, Michigan - downtown mall - first permanent pedestrianised shopping mall in the United States
• Publisher:  Penrod / Hiawatha
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  6 x George Washington 5c. blue coil-type stamps
• Postmark(s):  North Suburban IL 26 Aug 1982
• Sent to:  Stockport, UK
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Kalamazoo (pronounced /?kæl?m?'zu?/) is the largest city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 77,145. It is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 323,713 as of 2007.

Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a nationally recognized research institution that has benefited from the local presence of Pfizer, Eaton Corporation and Stryker Corporation. This has enabled the school to offer strong programs in both its College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Haworth College of Business.

The city is also home to Kalamazoo College (often referred to as "K College"), a liberal arts school located adjacent to WMU's campus.

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The Kalamazoo Mall, the first outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States, began with the closing of Burdick Street to auto traffic in 1959. The four block long mall, stretching from Lovell Street on the South to Eleanor Street on the north, has been restyled to match the attributes of the Arcadia Commons development, where the new Kalamazoo Public Museum anchors the north end of the mall. In 1999, however, two blocks of the mall were modified to accommodate auto traffic after a period of political debates on the issue.^[10] The creation of the mall gave Kalamazoo the name of "Mall City."