Let’s not start that tedious argument about whether Southdale was the first mall, okay? Let’s just agree that it was, and move on. This is the classic view from the early days, with the great wire bird cage and the tidy pool by the stairs. If you turn around to your left, you’ll see a space that would become a big bookseller for a local chain, B. Dalton, which would go national in the next few years. It’s gone - replaced by the city’s first Apple Store.