How can you not have a listing for the Germantown Village Square Mall?!? Before it was a strip mall on Poplar between Germantown Rd and Exeter, the mall was an enclosed two story mall. There was no food court, although I have fond memories of the snack counter on the second floor near the arcade. The arcade was one of the best in town in the late 70s & early 80s. The mall had a James Davis, Dinstuhls, Chocolate Soup, a bookstore, MM Cohn, a pet store, a toy store (Village Toymaker?). There is still some enclosed areas to the current mall for some offices I believe. There was also underground parking which still exists under the Office Max.

The Kirby Woods Mall, which was where the Carrefour mall is now, was also completely enclosed. It had a bookstore too (long before the current Borders)- and it had another outstanding arcade in it.

Lastly, before the Methodist Hospital in Germantown, there was a small group of stores called "the Pines" or something similar. Prior to the 1980s there were Germantown Festivals held in an adjacent field to the Pines.

Some dining in Germantown:
Danver's -- Before Danver's current success, there was a previous life for Danver's. They were perhaps the first fast food type restaurant in Germantown (maybe McDonalds was first, but I don't think so)- The building was on the east side of where the Wendy's at West and Poplar is. The building was first a Danver's and perhaps just prior to the destruction of it, it was a Burger King. That Danver's was open sometime in the late 70s/early 80s through around 1990.

JP Seafields & the Moonraker. First, I think it was the Moonraker, later called JP Seafields. This was located in the building which now has Pier 1. It was a fine restaurant, which I think both names were primarily seafood. The "JP" stood for Jim Prentiss, the owner, who also owned (or was president of) Shoney's South.

Shoney's Germantown- this was located where the McAllister's- directly across from where JP Seafields was. It at one point did have a Big Boy statue out front, as it spanned the years where Shoney's broke from the Big Boy restaurants.

BTW- For the hat trick here, Shoney's also owned Danver's when there was one in Germantown.

And for #4, Shoney's also owned the Hungry Fisherman restaurants- one of which was located out off Sycamore View near the Wimbleton. Hungry Fisherman, as every kid remembers had a lake/moat around the restaurant. It was a step above Red Lobster, but a step below (or two) from JP Seafields. Did it also have a lighthouse? The Hungry Fisherman on Sycamore View later became a nightclub, at one point at least it was line dancing style in the early 1990s.