Cool place! That's one thing I miss in malls these days, a certain amount of "dimness" that offers intimatcy (sic). I must be getting too old but malls today are bright as hell.
We lived in Waco in the early to mid-70's and regularly shopped at Lake Air Mall. I really liked the mall as it was on a human scale and had just about anything you'd need. I recall it had Montgomery Ward at one end and Cox's Dept. Store at the other. There was also a Movie Theatre as well. I remember the T,G & Y store and Shellenberger's Clothing too.
Really sorry to see it has gone away. The malls and strip centers of today are so bland and predictable...
I also grew up in Waco in the 70s & 80s.....had many lunches and dinners with my mom at Picadilly Cafeteria, then a movie at the Lake Air Cinema (also demolished). Lake Air didn't have Cox's though, it had Goldstein-Migel. Cox's was at Westview SC. In the beginning I have read that Safeway had a store next to Wards. Lake Air was "redeveloped", into another homogenized cookie cutter center with a Super Target, Goldsteins turned into Dunlaps....But now Dunlaps is closed.
I went to Baylor in the late 90s and used to go walking around Lake Air Mall and pretend that I was living in a different era. I loved how it was able to hold on to that old ambience instead of being modernized.
Aw, apparently that place got torn down in 2001
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Cool place! That's one thing I miss in malls these days, a certain amount of "dimness" that offers intimatcy (sic). I must be getting too old but malls today are bright as hell.
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It does look like a shopper needs a flashlight, though ;)
ReplyDeleteWe lived in Waco in the early to mid-70's and regularly shopped at Lake Air Mall. I really liked the mall as it was on a human scale and had just about anything you'd need. I recall it had Montgomery Ward at one end and Cox's Dept. Store at the other. There was also a Movie Theatre as well. I remember the T,G & Y store and Shellenberger's Clothing too.
ReplyDeleteReally sorry to see it has gone away. The malls and strip centers of today are so bland and predictable...
Memories! I lived in Waco in the early 60's. I remember going to Lake Air with my mom. Special times. Thanks for posting the picture!
ReplyDeleteKinda reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesan buildings... crazy.
ReplyDeleteI also grew up in Waco in the 70s & 80s.....had many lunches and dinners with my mom at Picadilly Cafeteria, then a movie at the Lake Air Cinema (also demolished).
ReplyDeleteLake Air didn't have Cox's though, it had Goldstein-Migel. Cox's was at Westview SC. In the beginning I have read that Safeway had a store next to Wards. Lake Air was "redeveloped", into another homogenized cookie cutter center with a Super Target, Goldsteins turned into Dunlaps....But now Dunlaps is closed.
I went to Baylor in the late 90s and used to go walking around Lake Air Mall and pretend that I was living in a different era. I loved how it was able to hold on to that old ambience instead of being modernized.
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