As the battle escalates over the proposed expansion of the Trancas shopping center, which would turn a sleepy little corner of local commerce into a bloated 22,000-square-foot mall (down from the originally proposed 33,000 square feet, if you can imagine) it's instructive to take a step back and see how it all looked not so many decades ago.
Signs of Saturday: The Malibu mall
Next entry: The old Cove
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