We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting fashion on a budget at Gap and watching a demo of swimming pools in 1974.
The Westwood Mall opened on the site of the Odd Fellow and Rebekah Home. You could shop under cover in a constant temperature of 70 degrees. As well as th shops – Kiddy Korner, Tie Hut, Merle Norman cosmetics, Aladdin’s Castle, Hot Sam’s Pretzels, Fanny Farmer candies and Tiffany’s Bakeries – there were events.
Onr we see in his gallery features Slim Goodbody, of the TV show Captain Kangaroo giving full throat to a musical tour of the human body before a crowd at the Feelin’ Good Fair in March 1982.
via MLive.
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