1970s

1980s

The Mall of Memphis 1981-2003 Here's a complete website dedicated to the Mall of Memphis, including detailed timeline, aerial views, store directory, and an extensive photo gallery with images before, during, and after demolition.

• Round the Corner Restaurant in the Mall of Memphis. They served about 20 varieties of gourmet burgers with great french fries and desserts.  You would enter the restaurant and sit down to look at the menu.  When you were ready to order, you would pick up the telephone at your table, and they would take your order over the phone.  When your order was ready, they would buzz your table and you would go up to get your order.  There were also locations in Germantown (on Poplar where Kinko's is now) and in the Laurelwood Shopping Center in East Memphis (where Rafferty's is now).
   

• In Parkway Village the Corner Pocket Pool Hall and Happy Days Amusement were next to Coleman's Barbeque!  The Parkway Village Cinema had midnight concerts.  Wooddale High School played Sheffield High School.  The Church Yard and the Schlitz Brewery were on Raines.  One of the very first McDonald's with the Golden Arches was on Perkins and there was a TG&Y dime store at Perkins and Knight Arnold. There was a small airport where Wooddale School is now and who can forget Audubon Park in the late 70’s--thousands of people and one big party.

   

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