The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime.

Regardless when and by what route it reached England and the British colonies in its recognizable form, croquet is, like pall mall, trucco, jeu de mail and kolven, clearly a derivative of ground billiards, which was popular in Western Europe back to at least the 14th century, with roots in classical antiquity.

Tracy Fields, a Los Angeles bus driver and fan of Coleman's work on Diff ' rent Strokes, approached him and requested his autograph while he was shopping for a bulletproof vest in a California mall.

The plantation no longer exists, however the land in which the plantation was located is now a San Patricio suburb with a shopping mall by the same name.

The city was also home to the Opryland USA theme park, which operated from 1972 to 1997 before being closed by its owners ( Gaylord Entertainment Company ) and soon after demolished to make room for the Opry Mills mega-shopping mall.

It was believed to be responsible for bombing a shopping mall.

*" De Passage " ( pronounced as in French ) was the Netherlands ' first covered shopping mall.

The capital's principal artery, 18 July Avenue, was long the principal shopping street of Montevideo, but it has been hurt since the mid-1980s by the construction of a modern shopping mall strategically located between Pocitos and Carrasco.

His company used the term " mall " to describe the development, which was an alternative to the more typical strip malls usually built in the suburbs ( the " mall " in " strip mall " came into usage later, after the enclosed mall had been popularized by Rouse's company ).

Although many now attribute the rise of the shopping mall to the decline of the American downtown core, Rouse's focus at the time was on the introduction of malls as a form of town center for the suburbs.

A referendum, which took place on 2006 in Las Condes, over the construction of a mall was noteworthy for being the first instance in Chilean history where electronic voting machines were used.

While the theme park was closed in 1997 and replaced by the Opry Mills mall, Opry House itself was left intact and incorporated into the new facility.

Much of the mall was torn down and has been replaced by buildings that emphasize street-facing storefronts.

When General Motors left, and the GM plant was dismantled in 1998, all that remained was a " big box store mall " called The Plant.

Several cars were flipped and piled in the parking lot of a strip mall ( which had extensive roof damage ) that is less than a tenth of a mile from the site of the old Wal Mart which was destroyed by an F4 tornado on August 6, 1993.

This mall was opened in the 1990s and boasts lots of shops, ranging from clothing stores to electronics as well as supermarkets.

In 1979, an indoor mall called Sunnyvale Town Center opened in what used to be a traditional downtown shopping district.

NAPLPS-based systems ( Teleguide ) were also used for an interactive Mall directory system in various locations including, the Worlds largest indoor mall, West Edmonton Mall ( 1985 ) and the Toronto Eaton Center.

Chesterfield Valley is the location of Spirit of St. Louis Airport, used for corporate aviation, as well as the longest outdoor strip mall in America.

The plaza used to house a movieplex and arcade which were converted into a strip mall and an A & P.

For a short while trams ( trackless trains ) were used in the mall, though this ceased due to dangers involved.

In most places, the term shopping centre is used, especially in Europe, Australia and South America ; however shopping mall is also used, predominantly in North America.

The term is also used to describe non-political situations, e. g. a shopping mall is said to have a sphere of influence which designates the geographical area where it dominates the retail trade.

More recently plaza has been used to describe a shopping complex, similar to a shopping mall, borrowing its connotations of a center of cultural life.

As part of this campaign, " Emerging Spirit " used controversial magazine advertisements featuring, among other images, a bobble-head Jesus, a marriage cake with two grooms holding hands, Jesus sitting on Santa's chair in a mall, and a can of whipped cream with the caption " How much fun can sex be before it's a sin?

In North America, where a more commonly used term is pedestrian mall, such areas are still in their infancy.

The mall was defunct, which is the reason the production used it ; the movie crew completely renovated the structure, and stocked it with fictitious stores after Starbucks and numerous other corporations refused to let their names be used ( two exceptions to this are Roots and Panasonic ).

" Monroeville is also the location of the mall used in the 1978 film.

For the first half of this there is a long car park within the street, used often by mall shoppers and people watching games at local WIN Stadium a few blocks to the east, due to no cost parking.

Initially this was used to provide a house of industry, or workhouse, called The Oracle, a name that was revived for the Oracle shopping mall which now occupies the site.

The mall is located in the high-rise building formerly used by the Gimbels flagship store, which closed in 1986.

It appeared in Animal House ( Mayor Carmine DePasto owns an Oldsmobile dealership and allows his vehicles to be used during the parade ), Trading Places ( Duke & Duke limousine ), Thriller ( Jackson's car ), Twilight Zone: The Movie ( during Prologue ), Into the Night ( Diana's brother's car ), The Blues Brothers ( while driving through the mall, Elwood said: " The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year "), The Three Amigos ( during scenes in Santo Poco ), and Oscar.

Mount Barker Plaza which used to house another Coles supermarket ( that was around before the one in Mount Barker Central was converted from a BI-LO ) has recently been redeveloped, adding new stores such as Dick Smith, Gloria Jeans and The Reject Shop, which is located where Coles used to be in the mall.

The World Financial Center's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall ; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the Winter Garden.

The changes included a new title ( The Hee Haw Show ), more pop-oriented country music, and the barnyard-cornfield setting replaced by a city street and shopping mall set.

It has been benefited from steady economic growth and is now the second commercial and financial center of the city, housing international firms like Moody's, Citibank, Aon Corporation, Huawei, Millicom International Cellular, Nissan Motor Corporation represented by Taiyo Motors, Pan American Silver Corporation, a Sumitomo Corporation branch, Ernst & Young, and the " MegaCenter ", Bolivia's biggest shopping mall ( 52. 000 mts2 of construction ).

Other landmarks of the city include Palazzo del Principe, the Old Harbour ( Porto Antico ), transformed into a mall by architect Renzo Piano, and the famous cemetery of Staglieno, renowned for its monuments and statues.

Some manufacturing veterans are giving way to post-industrial developments: an ECE shopping mall is taking the place of the former VAMO diesel engine works and the Varna Brewery is being replaced by a convention centre.

He was joined by Austrian architect Victor Gruen ( creator of the shopping mall ) in studies that eventually led the Eisenhower Commission to award the world's fair to New York City in competition with a number of American cities.

Henry's photography studio at the mall continued to see much success, so much that by the end of the third season he received an offer from the magnate of Glossy's, a photo studio franchise, for a $ 100, 000 buyout of Warnimont's which also included the offer of Henry becoming manager of the Glossy's location.

The next to be shot was a 33-year-old mathematician and father of two named Robert Boyer, who was killed instantly by a single shot to the lower back as he walked onto the mall.

The location is directly off of Highway 7N, across from Fountain Lake Center ( a strip mall ) and can be identified by a large stucco entrance gate and a long tree-lined drive.

The plane struck the roof of the building killing the pilot and two passengers and seriously injuring 84 Christmas shoppers in the crowded mall below, mainly by spraying them with burning fuel.

Today, the set aside for the Temple City Piazza mall are an empty lot, overgrown with weeds and surrounded by fencing.

The businesses that were concentrated in the mall have been replaced by many stand alone shops along Fowler and Fletcher Avenues, such as Wal-Mart, Target and dozens of fast food establishments.

One of the new developments is Ashley Park, an open-air shopping mall near I-85, anchored by Dillard's, and Belk department stores along with a large movie theater and dozens of other well-known retailers and restaurants.

A large antique mall called the Blue Door is also ran by the village.