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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Main entrance to the mall at Penn Square. This beautiful entrance is accented by clusters of tall pedestal canopies which look like huge mushrooms or inverted umbrellas. Penn Square is Oklahoma's largest shopping center--it covers more than 580,000 square feet of shopping area.
(This is the entrance on the east side of the mall. The store on the right was John A. Brown's, which would eventually become Dillard's.)
When my brother and I were much younger (back in the early 1960s), our parents used to take us to Penn Square on Sunday afternoons after church for some window shopping. (This was back when everything was closed on Sundays and window shopping was about the only kind of shopping you could do.) The only two places that were open were Val Gene's cafeteria, which was just east of where the center court is now, and the Humpty Dumpty supermarket, which was north of the center court--roughly where Macy's is at now, but a little closer to the main part of the mall.
1 comment:
Okay, you dated me with this one. I REMEMBER the old Penn Square mall and the open air. The old TG&Y with its basement escalator.
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