The mall's Piccadilly Cafeteria had 286 seats. It featured ornate decor, which included a Vermeer painting, circa-1780 Nuremberg porcelain stove and 9-foot-high medieval tapestry.

Drawing & graphic from Piccadilly Restaurants

  

As the ad attests, with the opening of Sears Whitehaven, at SOUTHLAND MALL, there were ten Sears stores in Greater Memphis. 

Advert from Sears, Roebuck & Company

A SOUTHLAND logo montage is created from the trademarks of August 1966 charter tenants. Note the circular Del "D" Farm Foods symbol. This supermarket chain was owned and operated by a Louisiana-based subsidiary of Chicago's National Food Stores.

This circa-'66 ad promotes the latest meal specials at the Woolworth's Whitehaven Snack Bar. At this time, Woolworth's was the world's largest prepared food retailer.    

Advert from the F.W. Woolworth Company