The original layout of WALT WHITMAN CENTER, which extended between a supermarket on the north and cinema on the south. In 1963, the 20 million dollar facility encompassed 890,000 leasable square feet and housed seventy-five stores and services. There was free parking for over 5,000 autos.
WALT WHITMAN CENTER TENANTS 1963:
ABRAHAM & STRAUS (with Garden Room Restaurant & Snack Bar and freestanding Tire Center) / MACY'S (with Big Top restaurant, Beauty Salon, pharmacy, optical shop and Walt Whitman Community Room) / J.G. McCRORY 5 & 10 (with Middle o' the Mall restaurant) / HILLS SUPER SAVING CENTER supermarket / A.S. Beck Shoes / American Whitman Card Shop / Ansonia Shoes / Barricini Candy / Bond Clothes / Broadstreet's / Buster Brown Shoes / Jeanne E. Burns / Cameo Jewelers / Castro Convertibles / Casual Shop of Huntington / Century's Whitman Theatre (single screen) / Chandler's French Room Shoes / Chandre Hairstylists / Charma Custom Cosmetics / Cooky's Restaurant / Crown Drug / Fanny Farmer Candies / Fifth Avenue Card Shop / Flagg Brothers Shoes / Foamland, USA / Franklin National Bank / Sam Goody Record Store / Hanover Shoes / Harvey's / Harwyn Florsheim Shoes / Hodor Dinettes / Horn & Hardart restaurant / J. Horowitz, Optometrist / Household Finance Corporation / Huntington Fabric Center / Ideal Kiddie Shop / Jon & Jon Jewelers / Kent Ties / Lerner Shops / Limelight Casuals / Loft's Men's Shop / Miles Shoe Center / Naturalizer Shoes / Paperbacks Unlimited / Parklane Hosiery / Peck & Peck / Pergament Paint & Wallpaper / Plymouth Shops / Regal Shoe Shops / Rhoda Hat Shops / Royce Shoes / Sconzo & Sons / Scot Ties, Limited / Sid's Slacks / Simco Shoes / Singer Sewing Center / Sylann's / The Heather Shop / The Teen Man / Wallach's / Walt Whitman Center Barber Shop / Walt Whitman Lighting / Wise Shoe Stores
