Graphic from the Edward J. DeBartlolo Corporation
A grand opening commemoration of the Glass City's WOODVILLE MALL. Its first thirty-six stores opened their doors on April 15 and 16, 1969.
Advert from the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation
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Our first WOODVILLE plan depicts the mall as it stood in late 1969. The single-level center spanned approximately 871,000 leasable square feet, with a 5,000-car capacity parking lot. Its developer, Youngstown's Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, was quite prolific. In the 1969-1970 time frame, the Corporation had five malls in various stages of completion.
WOODVILLE MALL TENANTS 1969:
J.C. PENNEY (with Coffee Shop, Beauty Salon and freestanding Auto Center) / LASALLE'S (with Beauty Salon) / SEARS (with Coffee House and freestanding Auto Center) / F.W. WOOLWORTH 5 & 10 (with Harvest House Coffee Shop) / FOOD TOWN supermarket / Bernard Wig Salon / Bresler's 33 Flavors Ice Cream / Butler's Shoes / Can-Do Shop / Card Mart / Snack Bar / Chess King men's wear / Clair Hats / Clothes Pin ladies' wear / Cunningham's Drug (with Highland Grill restaurant) / Disc Records / Docktor Pet Center / Father & Son Shoes / Fisher Shoes / Fanny Farmer Candies / Fireside Shops / First Lady Beauty Salon / First National Bank of Toledo / Fox Woodville Mall Theatre (single-screen) / Foxwood Casuals ladies' wear / French Cafe / Goodyear Tire & Auto / Grinnell's TV & Electronics / Gross Photo / Haig / Hanover Shoes / Hardy Shoes / Hobby Center / Hadley's / Home Furniture Company / Homemaker Shops / Hot Sam Pretzels / House of Nine ladies' wear / Hughes & Hatcher men's wear / Jo-Ann Fabrics / Keidan's Jewelers / Kinney Shoes / Marilyn Shop ladies' wear / Mary Jane Shoes / Maternity Modes / Max Davis Jewelers / Memory Lane Card & Gift Shop / Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio / Mode O'Day Frock Shop / National Shirt Shops / National Uniform Shops / Nobil Shoes / Parklane Hosiery / Princess Beauty Salon / Seven Seas Gifts / Strater Dry Cleaners / Tie Rak / Vassiliov Barber Shop / Woodville Coin Shop / Woodville Shoe Repair / Winkelman's ladies' wear / Zales Jewelers
By late 1969, the mall's thirty-six original stores had grown to eighty-seven.
Advert from the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation
The Fox Woodville Mall Theatre made its debut on July 10, 1969. On the bill that evening was "The Lost Man," starring Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus and James Mason.
Advert from Fox Eastern Theatres
The sky blue Center Court at WOODVILLE MALL was remodeled during the 1987 face lift. In the original mall, the area, known as the Marble Court, featured a large, shooting fountain with multicolored lights.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
By the early 21st century, competition from Greater Toledo's FRANKLIN PARK MALL -and other factors- had left WOODVILLE MALL on life support. Elder-Beerman pulled the proverbial plug on their store in September 2009.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
The downward spiral of the complex hastened. After failing a city and county inspection, inline tenants were given eviction notices. All shopping concourses were closed to public access in January 2012.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
The Anderson's store went dark in February 2013.
Photo from www.labelscar.com / "Prange Way"
Sears was the mall's last operational tenant. Demolition of the inline store section of the complex began in March 2014. Sears finally closed its doors for the last time in July of the same year.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
A depiction of a demalled -and "lifestyled"- WOODVILLE MALL. This ambitious redevelopment proposal was never carried out.
Drawing from www.thekronegroup.com
Drawing from M & A Architects
WOODVILLE MALL
Woodville and Williston Roads
Northwood, Ohio
Woodville and Williston Roads
Northwood, Ohio
The first regional-class, fully-enclosed shopping complex in Greater Toledo was also the eighth major retail facility developed by Youngstown, Ohio's Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation. Ground was broken at an 89.8-acre site, located 5.6 miles southeast of the center city, in May 1967.
A "soft opening" was held at WOODVILLE MALL on April 15 and 16, 1969. Thirty-six stores opened their doors. These included Home Furniture Company, Cunningham's Drug, Radio Shack, Thom McAn Shoes, Zales Jewelers and a (15,000 square foot) Food Town supermarket.
A 2-level (165,000 square foot) J.C. Penney held its formal opening on April 16th. The mall's second anchor, a 2-level, (106,000 square foot), Toledo-based LaSalle's, welcomed its first shoppers on August 4, 1969. The third department store at WOODVILLE MALL, a 1-level (146,800 square foot) Sears, was dedicated on October 15 of the same year.
The single-level shopping hub encompassed approximately 871,000 leasable square feet and eventually featured eighty-seven stores and services. Junior anchors were an F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10 and National General Corporation Fox Woodville Mall Theatre (originally a single-screen venue).
WOODVILLE was the only regional mall on the east bank of the Maumee River. It had been built, in the late 1960s, in anticipation of a population boom that never panned out.
Eventually, competition came from newer shopping facilities, such as FRANKLIN PARK MALL (1971) {10.9 miles northwest, in Toledo}, SOUTHWYCK CENTER (1972) {9.3 miles west, in Toledo} and NORTH TOWNE SQUARE (1980) {9.1 miles northwest, also in Toledo}. The fully-enclosed GREENWOOD MALL {9.6 miles northwest, in Toledo} had also opened in 1969. It was a community-class complex that provided no real competition to the larger WOODVILLE property.
The first anchor store rebranding at WOODVILLE MALL took place on October 1, 1981, when LaSalle's (owned by Macy's) was refitted with a Macy's nameplate. This store was shuttered and re-opened, as a Dayton-based Elder-Beerman, on August 7, 1985.
J.C. Penney closed in June 1987. Maumee, Ohio-based The Andersons renovated the building and opened on September 1, 1988. Only the store's 104,700 square foot first level was utilized for retail. Its upper level was dedicated to offices and storage. The Andersons was not a traditional department store, per se, but was a grocery / building supply / lawn & garden outlet.
A 5 million dollar, mall-wide face lift had been announced in March 1987. New landscaping and skylights were installed and mall entrances rebuilt. Concourses were carpeted and the 10-bay Treats Food Court fitted into existing store space in the West Wing. Center Court was also remodeled.
The renovation was completed in late 1987. Regretfully, it did not change the fortunes of the mall, whose decline had been underway for some years. The Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group acquired the mall during their 1996 merger with the Debartolo Realty Corporation. Simon decided to unload the past-its-prime property.
WOODVILLE MALL was sold to Jack Kashani and Sammy Kahen, of Beverly Hills, California, in September 2004. They enlisted the Beachwood, Ohio-based Krone Group as a redevelopment and management agent.
A large-scale renovation was proposed, which was to include a full remodeling and retenanting of the mall. New office and residential space was to be added, as well as an ice rink and multiplex cinema. After the purchase of adjoining land and construction of a new access road into the existing complex, the redevelopment stalled-out. A second plan advocated demolishing the mall proper and reworking its anchor stores into an open-air format. Like the first plan, this project was also abandoned.
The shuttering of Elder-Beerman, in September 2009, added an empty anchor space to the virtually vacant shopping center. Little Neck, New York's Mike Kohan acquired WOODVILLE MALL in November 2009. He initiated repairs to the roof and installed new flooring.
Twelve new stores and services opened during the spring of 2011. A grand re-opening was held in May. New stores and services included CJ's Breakfast & Sandwich Shop, InProcess and MPWA Combat Sports. However, hopes that the mall would continue on an upward trajectory were dashed when Wood County and Northwood City inspectors toured the property in December 2011.
Several problems were found, including buckling floors, mold and mildew and collapsed and leaking roofs. It was also revealed that natural gas service to the mall had been disconnected. The unheated interior had an average temperature of 46 degrees. The Fox Theatre, by now a 4-plex, closed for good on December 14, 2011.
A court injunction was filed December 16 that required for the mall to be shuttered. However, the exterior-entranced Sears and Andersons stores remained in business. Inline tenants were evicted in January 2012, with some relocating to the nearby GREAT EASTERN SHOPPING CENTER. The Andersons, concerned about the deteriorating condition of the mall, finally closed their store on February 16, 2013.
The mall continued to deteriorate, and was eventually deemed a public hazard. A county judge ordered its demolition. A wrecking crew was brought in in March 2014. The mall structure was demolished, leaving three anchors standing. Sears, the last operational store, closed in July 2014. Demolition resumed, with the Sears and J.C. Penney-Andersons structures being bulldozed. Eventually, the abandoned LaSalle's-Elder-Beerman was also knocked down.
Sources:
The Toledo Blade
The Press (Millbury, Ohio)
http//www.labelscar.com
https://auditor.co.wood.oh.us / Wood County, Ohio
https;//www.cinematreasures.org
http://www.allbusiness.com
http://www.13abc.com / WTVG-TV
The west anchor of the shopping center opened, as a Detroit-based Hudson's, in July 1971. It would operate under the Marshall Field's banner between August 2001 and September 2006, when it received a Macy's nameplate.
Photo from Toledo Lucas County Public Library
The centerpiece of the Hudson's Court was a 281-foot Alexander Calder sculpture. An associated mobile was suspended from the roof.
Photo from the Community Research & Development Corporation
Center Court at FRANKLIN PARK MALL. A stairway ascended to an upper Mezzanine floor.
Photo from the Community Research & Development Corporation
J.C. Penney at FRANKLIN PARK MALL was also dedicated in July 1971. At the time of its opening, the '70s Brutalist structure was one of the largest stores in the chain. Today, it is Penney's 7th-largest location.
Drawing from the J.C. Penney Company
FRANKLIN PARK MALL, in its original tri-anchor configuration. The 30 million dollar complex covered approximately 940,000 leasable square feet. As the promotion stated, there were "seventy-seven convenient stores in 72 constant degrees."
A detail view of the 1972 site plan. Locations of nineteen charter stores are shown.
The south anchor of the original FRANKLIN PARK MALL started out as a Toledo-based Lamson's. It became a Michigan-based Jacobson's in the mid-1970s.
Drawing from the Lamson Brothers Company
Graphic from the Mercantile Stores Company
The Lion was built as part of a North Wing addition (medium gray). With its completion in 1993, the shopping facility covered approximately 1.07 million leasable square feet and housed 124 stores. There were 5,700 for-free parking spaces. At this time, there were three multiplex cinemas in operation in the vicinity of the mall. This must have been mighty confusing for movie fans!
Graphic from the Westfield Group
WESTFIELD SHOPPINGTOWN FRANKLIN PARK STORES 2003:
DILLARD'S (with Beauty Salon) / J.C. PENNEY (with Beauty Salon and freestanding Home Store) / MARSHALL FIELD'S / A T & T Wireless-T-Mobile (kiosk) / Abercrombie & Fitch apparel / Aeropostale apparel / After Hours By Tuxedo World / American Eagle Outfitters / Ann Taylor ladies' wear / Babbage's electronic games / Bakers Shoes / Banana Republic apparel / Barbara Nolan's Market Research (Mezzanine) / Bath & Body Works / Bebe ladies' wear / Cache / California Nails / Casual Corner-Petite Sophisticate / Cellular Central (kiosk) / Claire's Boutique ladies' wear / Corey's Jewel Box / D.O.C. Eyeworld / Deck The Walls / Dippin' Dots / Dr. Robert Namay, Inc. (orthodontics) / E.B. Brown Optique / Easy Spirit / Eddie Bauer apparel / Express ladies' wear / Express Men / FYE (For Your Entertainment) / Finish Line / Footlocker / Franklin Park Mall Six Theaters (outparcel) / Franklin Park Tailor / G. Thanks cards & gifts / Gadzooks T-shirts / Gap Kids-Baby Gap / GNC / Godiva Chocolatier / Gordon's Gifts / Guess? fashion accessories & apparel / Gymboree children's apparel & toys / Helzberg Diamonds / Hot Topic young ladies' wear / Icing By Claire's / In Style / Itz a Puzzle / J. Crew apparel / J. Foster Jewelers / Jarman Shoes / Johnston & Murphy Shoes / Kay Jewelers / Lady Footlocker / Lane Bryant ladies' wear / Leather Limited / Lenscrafters / Lerner New York ladies' wear / Lids / Limited Too apparel / Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio / Naturalizer Shoes / Osterman Jewelers / Pacific Sunwear / Payless ShoeSource / Piercing Pagoda (kiosk) / Pop Culture / President Tuxedo / Ritz Camera Center / Ruby Tuesday restaurant / Sibley's Silver & Gold Connection / Silverado / Sky Bank / Sole Outdoors / Spencer Gifts / Sports Zone / Sunburst / Sunvision cards & gifts / The Body Shop / The Bombay Company / The Buckle / The Children's Place / The Coffee Mill / The Discovery Channel Store / The Disney Store / The Gap apparel / Things Remembered / Ticknors / Toledo Ballet School / Toledo Trunk Company / Universal Hair & Nails / Vans / Verizon Wireless (kiosk) / Victoria's Secret / Waldenbooks / Watch Station / Wet Seal / Wilson's Leather / Windsor Fashions / Zales Jewelers
IN THE FOOD COURT:
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips / Chick-fil-A / Coney Island Hot Dogs / El Camino Real / Great American Cookie Company / Magic Wok / McDonald's hamburgers / Olga's Kitchen / Pretzel Stop / Steak Escape / Subway / Teppanese / Tropical Grill / Villa Pizza
Westfield performed a second mall expansion. This added a South Wing (in medium gray) and two parking garages. An all-new (in-mall) megaplex also replaced all previous freestanding motion picture venues. When construction dust settled in 2005, WESTFIELD FRANKLIN PARK spanned 1.2 million leasable square feet and housed 150 stores. There were now 6,100 parking spaces.
Photo from https://starwoodretail.com / Starwood Retail Partners
The Elephant Bar & Restaurant was another casual dining establishment added as part of the South Wing.
Photo from Lucas County, Ohio
Dave & Buster's Grand Sports Cafe opened a FRANKLIN PARK store in late 2016.
Photo from www.shopfranklinparkmall.com
Westfield sold the mall in 2013. Proving that everything old is new again, the complex took on its original name, FRANKLIN PARK MALL. A circa-2017 site plan shows the latest addition to the complex. A block of big box stores has been built on its southeast corner, which increases the gross leasable area to approximately 1,299,000 square feet.
We conclude our FRANKLIN PARK set with a 2020s-vintage aerial view. With the demise of its major mall competitors (namely, SOUTHWYCK CENTER and WOODVILLE MALL), FRANKLIN PARK is now proudly promoted as "the only enclosed mall in a 50 mile radius."
Photo from https://visitfranklinparkmall.com
FRANKLIN PARK MALL
Monroe Street and Talmadge Road
Toledo, Ohio
Greater Toledo's second fully-enclosed shopping hub took nearly 20 years to see fruition. Conceived in the early 1950s as an open-air strip center, the complex was to be built on a 66-acre tract, located 7 miles northwest of downtown Toledo. The Franklin Airport had operated there between 1939 and 1952.
The early '50s shopping plaza plan never materialized. By 1963, Youngstown's Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation was planning for a mixed-use retail, office, hotel and residential complex for the site. This plan also fell through. The J.C. Penney Company announced its plan for a 650,000 square foot "Franklin Park Shopping Center" in 1966. By 1968, the J.L. Hudson and Lamson Brothers companies had signed onto the project, which was now being developed by Maryland's James Rouse Company.
Grand Rapids, Michigan's Daverman & Associates designed the complex, which would be known as FRANKLIN PARK MALL. Construction got underway in 1969. A predominantly single-level retail center, encompassing 940,000 leasable square feet and seventy-seven store spaces, was officially dedicated on July 22, 1971.
In attendance at the opening ceremony were Willard G. Rouse (nephew of James Rouse), Harry W. Kessler (Mayor of Toledo), Oscar J. Hunter (vice-president of the J.C. Penney Company), Joseph L. Hudson, Junior (president of the J.L. Hudson Company) and Jules L. Vinnedge (president of Lamson Brothers).
The original anchors of FRANKLIN PARK MALL were a 2-level (186,000 square foot) J.L Hudson (a.k.a. Hudson's) and 2-level (100,000 square foot), Lamson's of Toledo. These opened for business July 20, 1971. A 2-level (294,300 square foot) J.C. Penney began business, along with the inline section of the mall, on July 22nd. The new Hudson's marked the return of the Detroit-based chain to the Buckeye State. The retailer had operated a Toledo store between the 1880s and early 1900s.
FRANKLIN PARK MALL originally had four court areas. Center Court featured a 35-foot-high fountain, a suspended "sky cube" and second level mezzanine. The Hudson's Court, in the west end of the complex, was decorated with a "stabile" abstract sculpture by Alexander Calder.
Charter tenants included Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips, Lane Bryant, National Fabrics, J. Riggings, Bailey, Banks & Biddle Jewelers, Gray Drug, The Limited, The Alcove, Young Ages, B. Dalton Bookseller, Hughes & Hatcher men's wear, Goldcrest Gallery, Lerner Shops and a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (the first Ohio location). There was also a freestanding (29,400 square foot) Kroger supermarket in the north parking area.
In its early days, FRANKLIN PARK MALL did not have an in-mall movie house. The National Amusements Cinema 1 & 2 was located 1.1 mile southeast of the shopping complex. A freestanding venue, its first features were shown on December 17, 1964.
The National Amusements Franklin Park Cinemas 4 & 5 was built on a pad located .7 mile northwest of the shopping complex. This venue debuted on October 22, 1971. With its completion, Cinema 1 & 2 (now a 3-plex) was renamed Cinemas 1-3.
A third movie house, the American Multi-Cinema Franklin 5 was set up in a vacant Kroger supermarket; this situated in the mall's north parking lot. This venue showed its first features on October 4, 1985. It would be reconfigured as the Franklin 6 in 1994.
Competing shopping hubs in the vicinity of FRANKLIN PARK MALL included SOUTHWYCK CENTER (1972) {6.2 miles south, in Toledo} and NORTH TOWNE SQUARE (1980) {5.2 miles northeast, also in Toledo}. These were eventually eclipsed by FRANKLIN PARK.
SOUTHWYCK was demolished in 2009. NORTH TOWNE SQUARE was renamed LAKESIDE CENTRE in 2003 and shuttered permanently in 2004. GREENWOOD MALL {4.2 miles northeast, in Toledo} was a smaller, community class complex. It opened in 1969, but provided no sizable competition for the regional-class FRANKLIN PARK property.
The first of several anchor rebrandings at FRANKLIN PARK MALL took place on October 23, 1974, when the Lamson's store became a Jackson, Michigan-based Jacobson's. This was the chain's fourteenth store. The building was expanded, to 120,000 square feet, in 1986.
An addition to the north side of the mall was designed by Toronto's Zeidler Roberts Partnership and was approved by the local government in September 1991. A 2-level (192,100 square foot), Toldeo-based Lion Store was included in this North Wing project, along with twenty inline tenants. The existing mall was also given a face lift.
New stores included Gap Kids, Bombay Company, Recordtown, Babbage's, Waldenbooks, Cache' and a Ruby Tuesday restaurant. The addition, which was officially dedicated on August 4, 1993, increased the gross leasable area of the shopping complex to 1.07 million square feet, with its retail roster now listing 124 tenants.
Dillard's purchased Mercantile Stores, the parent company of the Lion Store chain, in August 1998. A Dillard's nameplate was installed at the FRANKLIN PARK store in June 1999. Hudson's had been rebranded by Chicago-based Marshall Field's in 1998. Jacobson's was shuttered in March 2002, with the building being sold to Dillard's. A Dillard's For The Home store was planned, that didn't pan out.
Sydney, Australia's Westfield purchased FRANKLIN PARK MALL in January 2001, as part of a 14-mall joint venture with the Simon Property Group and Rouse Company. The assets of Netherland's Rodamco were divided between the three companies. Soon after the acquisition, Westfield changed the name of the Toledo mall to WESTFIELD SHOPPINGTOWN FRANKLIN PARK.
A 113 million dollar renovation and expansion was designed by Westfield's architectural staff. The project got underway in March 2004. The vacant Lamson's-Jacobson's was knocked down, with a 2-level (238,000 square foot) South Wing built. The first stage of the mall makeover, a northwest parking garage (the Cardinal Deck), was completed in October 2004.
Twenty-seven stores and services would be housed in the new South Wing. Among these were Dick's Sporting Goods, Borders Books, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Aldo Shoes, Perfumania, Charlotte Russe, Mimi Maternity and Bravo! Cucina Italiana. The addition included the 12-bay Terrace Food Court and National Amusements Franklin Park 16 Cinema De Luxe. The new movie house, which replaced all freestanding motion picture venues in the mall's vicinity, was installed on a Second Level.
During the remodeling, the existing mall was refurbished. A dramatic pyramid skylight was installed over Center Court. Morevover, several existing tenants moved to new locations. These included Victoria's Secret, Select Comfort, Yankee Candle Company, Brookstone, Hollister and Olga's Kitchen. A southeast parking garage (the Orchid Deck) was also built.
The mall was re-dedicated on May 6, 2005. It now encompassed 1.2 million leasable square feet and contained 150 stores and services. In June 2005, the official name of the shopping center was truncated to WESTFIELD FRANKLIN PARK. On September 9, 2006, the Marshall Field's store morphed into a Macy's.
A freestanding (49,000 square foot) store block was added to the southeast corner of the complex. This structure housed DSW, Old Navy and Ulta Beauty stores. These opened for business on November 1, 2008.
Westfield sold the mall in October 2013; the buyer being Starwood Retail Partners, an affiliate of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group. The mall assumed its original moniker, FRANKLIN PARK MALL. Soon after, its southeast store block was expanded. A (32,000 square foot) Dave & Buster's Grand Sports Cafe welcomed first patrons on October 31, 2016.
In September 2020, a joint venture of El Segundo, California's
Pacific Retail Capital
Partners and New York City's Golden East Investors assumed management of
seven American malls. One of these properties was FRANKLIN PARK MALL. Its 18-year-old Macy's was shuttered in March 2025.
Sources:
The Toledo Blade
The Chicago Tribune
http://www.toledohistorybox.com
http://www.therousecompany.com (website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
http://www.mallfinder.com / Rouse Company (website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
http://shopfranklinparkmall.com (website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
https://www.cinematreasures.org
https://www.movie-theatre.org / Mike Rivest
http://www.westfield.com / The Westfield Group
https://ocpcoc.com / OCP Contractors
https://www.wealthmanagement.com
https://icare.co.lucas.oh.us / Lucas County, Ohio
https://starwoodretail.com / Starwood Retail Partners
https://pacificretail.com / Pacific Retail
https://visitfranklinparkmall.com
"Westfield Franklin Park" article on Wikipedia
Drawing from Mercantile Stores Company, Incorporated Annual Report 1971
Here we see The Lion Store mall entrance as it appeared in the early 1970s.
Photo from Mercantile Stores Company, Incorporated Annual Report 1971
An inside job. In this image, we see the interior of the new store's China, Gifts & Silverware section.
Photo from Mercantile Stores Company, Incorporated Annual Report 1971 
The center's center anchor -Lamson's of Toledo- was in business at SOUTHWYCK between August 1972 and November 1976. The building was converted to a Lion Store For The Home in 1978.
On the south end of SOUTHWYCK was a 137,400 square foot Montgomery Ward. The store was in operation between August 1972 and March 2001.
SOUTHWYCK TENANTS 1972:
LAMSON'S OF TOLEDO / MONTGOMERY WARD (with Buffeteria snack bar and freestanding Auto Center) / THE LION STORE / Albert's ladies' wear / Al Thomas Shoes / American Handicrafts / B. Dalton Bookseller / Bartz-Viviano Flowers & Gifts / Bresler's 33 Flavors ice cream / Broer-Freeman Jewelers / Brooks Fashions ladies' wear / Burstein-Applebee electronics / Calandra Hallmark Shop / Casual Corner ladies' wear / Chandler's Shoes / Chess King men's wear / Claire's Boutique accessories / Coach House Gifts / Diamond's men's wear / Disc Records & Tape Center / Doctors Levin & Rueven, Optometrists / Faber Fabrics / Forum Cafeteria / Foxmoor Casuals / First National Bank of Toledo / Flagg Brothers Shoes / Florsheim Shoes / Frisch's Big Boy restaurant / Frederick's of Hollywood / Grinnell's home electronics / Hickory Farms of Ohio / GNC / Hobby Center Toy Store / Homemaker Shops / Hot Sam Pretzels / J. Riggings men's wear / K-G Men's Store / Keidan's Shoe Shop / Kinney Shoes / Lane Discount Drugs (with luncheonette) / Max Davis Jewelers / Mrs. Stover Candies / Mr. Formal men's wear / Orange Julius / Osterman Jewelers / Pet Bazaar / Photo West / Plaza U ladies' wear / Richman Brothers men's wear / Sally's ladies' wear / Silverman's men's wear / Singer Sewing Center / Southwyck Coney Island restaurant / Southwyck 7 Theatres / Spencer Gifts / Sprenger's men's wear / The Athletic Supply Company / Thom McAn Shoes / Trouser Bar men's wear / Waldenbooks / Winkelman's ladies' wear
Noteworthy as the first 7-screen motion picture venue in the cosmos, the Southwyck 7 Theatres opened the day after the mall was officially dedicated. An eighth screen was installed in the mid-'70s. A second mall-based movie house -the Southwyck 3 (a.k.a. Southwyck Art Cinema)- opened in 1985.
The mall entrance of the SOUTHWYCK Dillard's. It was the final operational anchor at the shopping center.
Photo from www.labelscar.com / "Prange Way"
An aerial view of the mall, screen-saved before it disappeared from the Bing server. Here we have a westward view, which includes Southwyck Boulevard, a ring road accessing several low-rise office buildings.
Photo from www.bing.com
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