the.com/west edmonton mall
a mall so big it gave up pretending to just sell you things and built a water park instead.
means a massive shopping and entertainment complex in edmonton, alberta, once the largest mall on earth, combining retail with theme park, ice rink, and indoor beach.
from opened in 1981 by the ghermezian family, expanded through the 80s until it held the guinness record for world's largest mall, a title it kept until asian megamalls overtook it in the 2000s.
sizeover 5 million square feet, roughly 48 city blocks
submarinesonce had actual working submarines in an indoor lagoon
record heldworld's largest mall from 1981 to 2004
parkingspace for over 20,000 cars
for instance
world waterpark — indoor wave pool inside the mall since 1985
galaxyland — largest indoor amusement park, opened 1981
ice palace — nhl-sized rink where oilers once practiced
deep sea derby — former submarine ride, closed after decades of use