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A115140-6
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- 1958-06-25 (Creation)
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The Villa Plaza Shopping Center in Lakewood was able to provide its customers plenty of what downtown Tacoma could not: parking. Free parking. The vast parking lot was able to hold 4,000 cars. Visitors to the 30+ stores in the shopping center did not have to worry about feeding the meter or circling the block in pursuit of a parking spot. Customers could shop at many name-brand stores such as Penney's, Rhodes and W.T.Grant, buy groceries at Thriftway, and conduct financial business at the National Bank of Washington and Household Finance. Villa Plaza was a one-stop shopping center that would serve customers throughout Pierce County. Photograph ordered by Household Finance, Los Angeles. TPL-8318
Villa Plaza Shopping Center (Lakewood); Shopping centers--Lakewood--1950-1960; Parking lots--Lakewood;