Petersburg's Walnut Mall

The Shopping Showplace of Southside Virginia was developed on a plot located 27 miles southeast of center city Richmond. Sixteen stores and services were in operation at the November 1966 grand opening.

Graphic from Alsage Properties Management 

Richmond-based Thalhimers anchored the north end of WALNUT MALL. This was the chain's seventh suburban shopping center branch. The store opened for business in August 1966.

The shopping concourse entrance of  Thalhimers. Before the chain folded in 1992, it had stores in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Photo from www.labelscar.com / Michael Lisicky 

A mid-'60s rendering shows the climate-controlled shopping concourse of WALNUT MALL. 

Drawing from Brundage, Cohen & Holton Architects