A color snapshot of the shopping hub's East Wing. As originally built, the complex featured Saltillo-tiled floors, wooden trellis ceiling treatments, a fountain and pool, children's sculpture garden, recirculating boat canal and 16-foot-high bird aviaries. 
Photo from the Clark Printing Company

The James W. Rouse Company's fourth shopping mall was developed in the northern environs of San Antonio. The center, which was America's seventh regional-class enclosed mall, featured a single anchor, San Antonio-based Wolff & Marx. The complex encompassed 339,000 leasable square feet and contained forty-eight stores and services. Its parking area could accommodate 2,000 autos.

NORTH STAR MALL TENANTS 1960:

WOLFF & MARX (with Beauty Salon) / H-E-B supermarket / S.S. KRESGE 5 & 10 (with luncheonette) / Andes Candies / Ann & Tom Brown Toys / Carl's ladies' wear / Casual Manor ladies' sportswear / Community Hall / Elliott's Boy's & Students Styles / Federal Bake Shop / Guarantee Shoe Company / Holiday Shoes / J's Gift Shoppe / Karotkin Furniture / Lerner Shops / Luby's Cafeteria / Menier Hardware / Mode O'Day Frock Shop / National Shirt Shops / Nix Maternity Shops / North Star Barber Shop / North Star Key Shop / Opal Hall ladies' wear / Plaza Style-Beauty Salon / Rhealee ladies' wear / Robinson's Beauty Salon & Barber Shop / San Antonio Trunk Company / Siegel's ladies' wear / Singer Sewing Center / Sunshine Laundry & Dry Cleaning / Texaco service station (outparcel) / Texas State Optical / Texas Stores outdoor & hunting supplies / The Fox Company Cameras / The Pet Pantry / The Shoe Box / The Young Man's Shop / Thom McAn Shoes / Tom Oliver's Apparel for Men / Walgreen Drug (with luncheonette) / Wallace's Beauty Salon / Walsh Shoe Repair / Western Auto / Zales Jewelers