The Show Me State's first shopping mall was Kansas City's ANTIOCH CENTER, which was dedicated in August 1956. The second mall in KCMO straddled the corporate lines of Kansas City and Independence, Missouri.
Graphic from Blue Ridge Shopping Center, Incorporated
MONTGOMERY WARD (with Snack Bar and freestanding Auto Center) / J.C. PENNEY / F.W. WOOLWORTH 5 & 10 (with luncheonette) / J.J. NEWBERRY (with luncheonette) / SAFEWAY supermarket / Acme Quality Paints / B & G Hosiery Shops / Blue Ridge Bank / Blue Ridge Bowl / Bond Clothes / Cable's Record & Hi-Fi / Crenshaw's Camera Shop / Crown Drug (with luncheonette) / Davis Fabric Shop / Evans Shoe Repair / Fred Harvey Cafeteria / Fred Harvey Drive-In / Glen's Barber Shop / Harzfeld's / Holiday Shoes / Household Finance Corporation / House of Remembrance / Jacqlyn's Cleaners & Launderers / Joe Falk Toys, Hobbies & Sporting Goods / Kansas City Laundry Service Company / Kinney Shoes / Lerner Shops ladies' wear / National Shirt Shops / Old Woman In A Shoe Nursery / Ronnie's Fashion Beauty Salon / Standard Oil Service Station (outparcel) / Steve's Shoes / Thom McAn Shoes / Velvet Freze Ice Cream / Western Auto / Wolferman's grocery / Zale's Jewelers
Montgomery Ward, the only full-line anchor in the original complex, made its debut in the fall of 1958. It was one of the Chicago-based chain's first shopping center-format stores.
Photo from Montgomery Ward & Company Annual Report 1959
The southwest corner of the mall, circa-1958. The Blue Ridge Bowl (bowling alley) was located beneath the Safeway supermarket and was accessed from the mall's Lower -or Community Concourse- Level.
Photo from http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com
