Someone on another post was talking about the mall and got me thinking about the cool stores that were there when they first opened it. I thought that would be fun to talk about.
I was a almost a teen when it opened. I can remember
It had Hardees, you could slip out a back door where the bathroom was and POOF there was your car...we always parked there.
Orange Julius,
Tobacco Rd LTD, With the colored cigarettes..that was cool.
Directions...had such an odd store layout with its downstairs area.
Parisians had a candy store and also a talking Chrstmas tree in season.
Castnor Knotts
Hickory Hill Farms (they had these whiskey sour and martini candies... my friend and I thought we could get drunk eating themLOL)
Big Top Deli..with all those ceiling fans!
Morrisons
Aladdins Castle
Baskin Robbins ..pralines and cream was the BEST!
Radio Shack
Jeans West
Sears and J C Penney both had tire centers if I remember correctly.
Spencers
Eckards or some kind of drugstore
There was a mexican rest next to Big top but I don't know if it was originally there.
There was a a Toy store beside Hardees Anderson bookstore..maybe where Hallmark is now.
Some kind of music store beside Radio Shack.
That's about the extent of my memory...
Can anyone add to that?
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