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West Edmonton Mall in 1985: the mall that had it all

Take a tour of West Edmonton mall, back when it was the biggest mall in the world

Check out how the mall looked 30 years ago

Remember when...WEM thirty years ago

9 years ago
Duration 2:04
Watch as the CBC's Anna Maria Tremonti visits West Edmonton Mall in 1985.

Thirty years ago West Edmonton Mall was THE biggest mall in the world.

In September 1985, just four years after its grand opening, the mall expanded to include hundreds more stores and an indoor aquarium complete with a submarine, sharks and buried treasure. 

Watch as the CBC's Anna Maria Tremonti shows us the mall that has it all, as it was three decades ago.