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D146237-3A
Date(s)
- 1965-10-14 (Creation)
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Interior of Tacoma Mall. 30-foot umbrella columns form a stately forest supporting the structure of the new Tacoma Mall Shopping Center. Plexiglass skylights diffused light and eliminated shadows. Rock walls decorate the exterior of the Bon Marche department store which is visible on the left. The Bon's 110-foot colored glass sliding doors opened for the first time onto the mall on Wednesday, October 13, 1965. A curving staircase led from the Bon's basement level to the mall level. That staircase and the nearby fountain was later eliminated when remodeling. Florsheim Shoes was located directly across the Bon. Photograph ordered by Nelson Construction. (TNT 10-3-65, B-14, 10-12-65, D-2)
Shopping centers--Tacoma; Tacoma Mall Shopping Center (Tacoma); Stores & shops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Bon Marche (Tacoma); Florsheim Shoes (Tacoma); Columns--Tacoma;