The Wonderfall at Palm Beach Mall For a fleeting moment in postwar America, shopping malls were more than retail emporiums—they were fantasy worlds where people sought to escape the pressures of daily life. Not always with consumerism in mind either, but with the desire to commune in an architectural wonderland, to experience an environment unlike any other. At Palm Beach Mall in West Palm Beach, Florida, which opened in 1967, the “Wonderfall” (pictured just beyond the bridge) embodied ...
