The Arcade Shops section at SUNRISE CENTER was a fully-enclosed shopping concourse. This mall-within-a-mall featured twenty-five boutiques and service shops.
Drawing from Gamble, Pownall & Gilroy Architects
The five buildings at the open-air SUNRISE CENTER contained around 172,000 leasable square feet of selling space. Free parking was provided for 1,050 autos.
SUNRISE CENTER TENANTS 1954:
SAKS FIFTH AVENUE / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with luncheonette) / FOOD FAIR supermarket / American Bank (outparcel) / Anita Kott Gifts / Angela Brooks Maternity Wear / Barclay's, Limited TV, Radio & Players / Broward Photo / Fetherston's ladies' wear / Grayson's Shop ladies' wear / Haley's Restaurant / Hawaiian Sports Shop ladies' wear / House & Garden Furniture / James men's wear / Kasdin Drugs (with luncheonette) / Kayser's Gifts, Jewelry & Handbags / Lloyd Kruft Shoes / Martin Burns men's sportables / Marjorie Wing Handpainted Women's Wear / Phillips 66 Service Station (outparcel) / Pick & Send Greeting Cards / Ross Shoes / Surf & Sand ladies' wear / Tate's Gifts-Cards-Novelties / Thom McAn Shoes / US Post Office (outparcel) / Whitecraft Furniture / Woodrow Shops men's wear / Virginia Dare ladies' wear / Young Ages children's wear
ARCADE SHOPS:
Antibes ladies' wear / Anton's Gifts / Childhood Baby & Children's wear / Cutt's Shoe Repair / Davies Travel Service / Driebe's Fruit & Gifts / Flowers At Sunrise / Helen Hill Knit Shop / Jonay's Lines & Accessories / Leather Fair / Mattier's Jewelers / Monique Beauty Salon / Sea Farm Foods / Stubbs Barber Shop / Sun-Glo Candies / Sunrise Center Bakery / Textile Tent / Vision Center, Incorporated / Wachendorfer & Sons Liquors / Zorno's Watch Shop
The south -or rear- facade of SUNRISE CENTER is seen in this circa-1955 snapshot. Along the shopping concourse (on the Upper Level) we notice a nameplate for the Virginia Dare dress shop. A Food Fair sign appears in the distance.
Photo from www.floridamemory.com / State Library & Archives of Florida / C. Morris Monts de Oca
