Talk:Three Stooges - Dead Dunderheads/@comment-24987453-20150426141735/@comment-34747601-20180219100230

Actually, the first open shopping center was built in Bellevue, Washington in 1946 and there were three more in California in Sacramento, and two in L.A, and several in Cleveland, Ohio by the end of the year this is set. The one in question in the story is implied due to the presence of the film student and well-organized police detail indicative of the LAPD to be the one in LA from the year earlier called Town and Country Village, which in fact had a movie theater and was advertised by celebrities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall