OAK RIDGE BUSINESS DISTRICT TENANTS 1956:
J.C. PENNEY / J.G. McCRORY 5 & 10 (with luncheonette) / KROGER supermarket / A & P supermarket / Associates Discount Corporation / Balloff's men's wear / Bank of Oak Ridge / Bill's Sandwich Shop / C.C. Brill Insurance / Clark & Jones Music / Cole's Drug (with luncheonette) / Conley E. Morris fashions / Crum-Williams Insurance / Davis Brothers Cafeteria / Donald R. Mance Public Accountant / Downtown Barber Shop / Downtown Hardware Store / Esso service station (outparcel) / Famous Brands Shoe Store / Federal Bake Shop / G.R. Kinney Shoes / Gateway News Stand / General Finance Corporation / Grayson Shops ladies' wear / Gulf service station (outparcel) / Herron & Connell Insurance / Kay's Ice Cream / Kimball's Jewelers / Kramer-Sturm Shoes / Marilyn Shoes / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company / My Shop ladies' wear / Pan Am Oil Company service station (outparcel) / Ralph H. Miller ladies' wear / National Shirt Shops / One Hour Valet / Royal Jewelers / Sherwin-Williams Paints / Singer Sewing Center / Stein's men's wear / Steppe's Beauticians / Sterchi Brothers Furniture / Sturm's Youth World / Texas Company / The Bootery Family Shoes / The Curtain Shop / Walker Shoes / Walgreen Drug (with luncheonette) / WATO Radio studio / Williams Drug (with luncheonette)
The first expansion of the shopping venue added a Loveman's of Tennessee department store. It opened in August 1959.
Photo from the Department of Energy / Ed Westcott
A second expansion brought a West Wing of stores and made the shopping center into a U-shaped facility. The Fowler's furniture store seen here was dedicated in November 1961.
Photo from the Department of Energy / Ed Westcott
Graphic from Interstate Stores, Incorporated
