Lot of 2 Toledo Ohio SOUTHWYCK MALL shopping center pin pinback button carousel horse/Christmas makes it merry
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The mall first opened in August 1972 by Kansas City developers Frank Morgan and Sherman Dreiseszun and had many stores, including Lion Store, Montgomery Ward, and Lamson’s. For a time in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, Southwyck had a section called “Old Towne”. Accessible via a narrow themed walkway from the regular mall, Old Towne was a common area with cobblestone streets and at least 30 smaller retailers, plus a few novelty arcade machines and a “play tic-tac-toe with the chicken” machine. Old Towne would eventually close, and the space converted to an additional three cinema screens by AMC (the mall originally opened with a seven-plex, the world’s first, according to AMC literature at the time). AMC also operated another multiplex cinemas in the mall with 8 screens. Both theaters were eventually sold by AMC to National Amusements in 1995, and later closed.
The mall closed its doors after 36 years of business on June 29, 2008 and as of June 29, 2009 the demolition of the mall was well underway.
By November 1, 2009, the Southwyck Mall was completely demolished, the last structure to be demolished being the Montgomery Ward automobile service center.
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