The first stores in NORDSTROM MALL opened for business March 1980. When fully-leased, the complex covered approximately 185,000 square feet and housed forty-six tenant spaces.

NORDSTROM MALL TENANTS 1980:

FIRST LEVEL
NORDSTROM / Anitas / Bart's Hush Puppies Shoes / Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream / Busy Body / Chalet Restaurant / Charley's Leathers / Clothes Gallery / Dog's Ear / GNC / Harry Ritchie's Jewelers / Kinney Shoes / Latham's Luggage / Marilyn's Hallmark Cards / Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio / Mr. Rags, Limited men's wear / Music Music / Nobby Shops ladies' wear / Orange Julius / PV's / Weisfield's Jewelers

SECOND LEVEL
NORDSTROM / 3rd Dimension / Arbuckle's Shoes / Baby It's Yours / Binyon Optical / Casual Corner ladies' wear / Connie's Shoes / Fabric House / Jay-Jacobs / Jean Machine / Kits Cameras / Lacey's Olde World Gifts & Collectibles / Motherhood Maternity / Oregon Runner shoes / Peck & Peck ladies' wear / Rian's Breadbasket delicatessen / Samuels Jewelers / The Red Rose ladies' wear / Toy World / Waldenbooks / Willoughby Beauty Salon / Xanadu Gifts, Cards & Collectibles / Yogurt Shop   



In this snapshot, we see the southwest entrance of NORDSTROM MALL.
Photo from Salem, Oregon Public Library Photographic Collections / Statesman Journal Photographic Collections


A diagram from 1984 shows a "Proposed Salem Skywalk System." NORDSTROM MALL (in blue) would be incorporated with its surrounding structures. Only four of the above-grade walkways depicted would be completed. Those linking with the PayLess Block, Reed Opera House, and First Interstate and Equitable Buildings would never be built.
Drawing from "Salem Tomorrow Report" / Gertenrich, James, Silkey & Swaim / April 1984