They came in their high top white sneakers and peg-leg pants.
The newly-expanded mall benefitted from a boost as free-market Reaganomics put a flush of cash into the pockets of shoppers’ acid-washed jeans.Īnd so the shoppers came to the Everett Mall. The expansion and new anchor tenants were just what the fledgling shopping center needed. In 1980 builders completed a brand-new $20 million east wing. Even with a big movie theater, the mall remained a ghost town for about a decade after opening, its unused storefronts covered by drapery. The mall’s opening in the early 1970s corresponded with a national economic recession and cutbacks at Boeing. Initially conceived in the late 1960s by Tacoma architects and backed by Hollywood investors, for the first ten years or so the Everett Mall appeared to be a bad investment.
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