Another view of the West Mall, which includes its 7-story Seminary South Office Building. A Buddies supermarket would have been off to the left. 
Photo from Styker's Western Fotocolor

A circa-'63 layout of the SEMINARY SOUTH mall. The open-air complex encompassed nearly 900,000 leasable square feet and housed seventy stores. Its bi-level parking area accommodated 5,000 autos at one time.

SEMINARY SOUTH TENANTS 1963:

SEARS (with Pharmacy, Coffee House and freestanding Auto Center) / STRIPLING'S (with Char-Mont Room restaurant and post office) / G.C. MURPHY 5 & 10 (with restaurant) / BUDDIES supermarket / Baker's Qualicraft Shoes / Barber Shop / Book Nook / Casual Corner ladies' wear / Coin Valet laundry & dry cleaning / Consumer Finance Corporation / Duane's Shoes / El Chico Restaurant / En Jole Shoes / Finger Furniture / Foreman & Clark apparel / Happy House cards & gifts / Herb Ownes Fabric Center / Hobby Hut / Household Finance Corporation / Junior Achievement Store / Karnival Korner / Kruger's Jewelers / Margo's la Mode ladies' wear / Majestic Liquors / Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio / Milan's Toyland / National Shirt Shops / Paris Hats / Russell Stover Candies / Seminary Bowl (with Ten Pin Tap Room, restaurant, Tiny Tot nursery and Pro Shop) / Seminary State Bank / Slater's Shoes / Texas State Optical / The Card & Party Shop / Thom McAn Shoes / Town Hall public auditorium / Town Plaza Fabrics / Wyatt's Cafeteria / Zale's Jewelers 

The original two-anchor shopping hub was expanded with a New Generation Penneys.  The 3-floor store, which covered around 120,000 square feet, opened for business in the fall of 1964.
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