Do you have an Arcade in your city?
We have one in Nashville. It's over 100 years old, but being revitalized currently. I saw on Jeopardy from Tuesday's episode, that another city, I think it was Cleveland??? had the same architecture. I had no idea it was a common thing. Does your city have one?
Nashville's arcade
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last yearWe have a small early 19th c. one. There are quite a lot around the country. This lovely one's in Norwich, Norfolk. I was there last autumn.
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Cleveland’s old arcade is beautiful! I worked across the street at the Fed when I first graduated from college and walked through it frequently.
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last yearlast modified: last yearI saw the heading and I immediately thought of two arcades I know of. Both are in beach communities.
One in Santa Cruz, at the Boardwalk:
The other used to be called the Fun Zone in Balboa (Newport Beach)
You're obviously referring to a different kind.They're rather common in Europe in urban centers, in older buildings. Maybe these were the first form of shopping centers. In French, such places are called "passages" or "passage couverts"or "galeries".
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last yearlast modified: last yearIt reminds me of Westside Pavillion in West L.A.
I used to shop there a bit when I lived in Culver City or when I would go to F&S Fabrics across the street from the mall.The Beverly Center also has skylights:
and I used to shop there also.I remember that large shopping malls in Texas generally had skylights. It probably saved on electricity.
last yearlast modified: last yearI’m not sure if this is an arcade. West Edmonton Mall in central Alberta has a mall with 800 stores, an NHL sized hockey rink, a waterpark, a full size replica of the Nina or the Pinta or the Santa Maria. I can’t remember which one.
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There are places like this all over Europe. There were many in the US that have been torn down. It was a way to have lots of shops in one location, protected from the elements, with glass to still let light in.
Cleveland had in incredible one.
Philadelphia has The Bourse, which had become a hipster food court that I believe is now permanently closed.
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This is in Dayton Ohio
Built between 1902 and 1904 and consists of nine interconnecting buildings topped by a glass-domed rotunda
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" I think the timeframe overlaps for all of them? "
That's perhaps true in the US but not so much in Europe, where the building style originated.
A search led to Wiki, I have no info other than what I found. Outdoor markets with roofs existed in the 16th century. The first "modern" shopping arcade is thought to be the Covered Market in Oxford, which opened in 1755.
Some cut and paste info:" Examples of these grand shopping arcades include: Palais Royal in Paris (opened in 1784); Passage de Feydeau in Paris (opened in 1791); London's Piccadilly Arcade (1810) and Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele (1878). "
" Other notable nineteenth century grand arcades include the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels which was inaugurated in 1847 and Istanbul's Çiçek Pasajı opened in 1870. Shopping arcades were the precursor to the modern shopping mall, and the word "arcade" is now often used for malls which do not use the architectural form at all. "
Paris has almost two dozen of them.
Apparently the one in Nashville was inspired by Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele in Milan. I haven't been to the one in Nashville but I have been to the Vittorio Emmanuele - it is lovely.
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