We'll call the next two photos Chris-Town Christmas Past. The mall is shown as it was decorated for its very first yuletide season, in December 1961. A contemporary account related that the "Christmas Fantasyland" at CHRIS-TOWN was a display of beautiful "kaleidoscopic colors."
Photo from "The Webb Spinner" / December 1961 / Del E. Webb Corporation / Sun City Museum, Arizona 

Here we see the interior of the festively-festooned shopping hub, which featured giant-sized storybook characters, Santa in a snow-white igloo, a gingerbread house and mini-castle.
Photo from "The Webb Spinner" / December 1961 / Del E. Webb Corporation / Sun City Museum, Arizona

By 1979, the complex is quite a bit larger and encompasses around 1.2 million leasable square feet. The east anchor has been Broadway-branded and nearly doubled in size. J.C. Penney has also been enlarged and upgraded to a full-line store. Two wings (in medium gray) were added in the mid-'70s. A Southwest Wing includes a Los Angeles-based Bullock's. The Southeast Wing has an upper level 6-screen multiplex.