MISSION VALLEY CENTER was configured on 2 levels, with a parking garage as the first and retail area as the second. Speedwalk Speedramps were moving sidewalks that transported patrons from the parking lot level to the stores above. Speaking of parking, the covered garage and surrounding lots accommodated 6,000 autos at one time.

MISSION VALLEY CENTER TENANTS 1961:

MAY COMPANY (with beauty salon and Mission Room Restaurant & Coffee Shop) / MONTGOMERY WARD (with snack bar, Garden Shop and attached Auto Center) / J.J. NEWBERRY 5 & 10 (with luncheonette) / Adele Scott ladies' wear / Adorable Shop ladies' wear / Allied Travel  Agency / Anell's / Arthur Pierce Luggage / Bank of America / Barano's Jewelers / Bond Clothes / Chandler's Shoes / Children's Bazaar / Continental Cafe / Cory's Beauty Salon / Courtesy Chevrolet / Doctor S.L. Kassel, Optometrist / Flagg Brothers Shoes / Flynn's Candle Shop / Golden State Fabrics / Haggarty's / Hartfield's / Jacobson's / House of C-M TV & Hi-Fi / J. Jessop & Sons / Joyce Shoe Box / Lane Bryant ladies' wear / Leed's Qualicraft Shoes / Lerner Shops ladies' wear / Lundin's Children's Shoes / Mission Valley Camera Shop / Mission Valley Sporting Goods / Mode O'Day Frock Shop / Motherhood Shop / Nina's ladies' wear / Normandie Hats / Remer's Gifts / Sandford-Robertson Interiors / See's Candies / Southern California Music Company / Streicher's Shoes / The Highlander / Thom McAn Shoes / Thifty Drug (with luncheonette) / Uncle George's Toys / Union-Tribune Publishing Company / Union Oil Company service station (outparcel) / Universal Boot Shop / Valley Ho Restaurant