Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D137300-625
Date(s)
- 1963-12-09 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Construction proceeds steadily on the upper floors of the Bon Marche department store at the site of Tacoma's future Mall Shopping Center on December 9, 1963. The Bon, completed in 1964, was the first store to open at the Tacoma Mall; its grand opening, drawing 150,000 shoppers, forecast the support of Tacoma's shoppers for the coming mall. The completed Mall opened in October of 1965. Easy freeway access, ample free parking, and the convenience of multiple stores in one covered location lured shoppers from longtime downtown stores. Sears and J.C. Penney's followed the Bon from downtown to the Tacoma Mall a few years later.
Building construction--Tacoma--1960-1970; Bon Marche (Tacoma); Shopping centers--Tacoma--1960-1970; Tacoma Mall Shopping Center (Tacoma); Aerial photographs;