Another recent arrival at the IM.com archives was a bunch of old Windsor promotional material from the mid to late 1970’s.
The “vintage” Devonshire Mall ad below graced the back cover of the 1976 “Guide to Windsor and district” brochure. I’ll post more from the brochure over the coming weeks.
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YUCK!!! lol i remember that look, with them freaky statues up by the roof.
thanks andrew!
Where's "Leisure World"?
Where's the people? The Shopper's Drug Mart next to the Food Court is normally packed on the evenings and weekends. I guess they were still flocking to downtown back then.
Where is that naked statue on the wheel? I wonder where it went?
I notice they make a point to mention that the mall has parking for "over 4500 cars".......sprawl and development designed around life in cars......
And thus the cancerous tumour grows, feeding off the main streets and shops of cities and towns alike.
From the Star's Yesterday's Cryptoquote " Drive-In banks were invented so that automobiles could visit their real owners"...and I add malls!
This is the look of Devonshire I remember as a kid, if only for the benches. I was prone to running around the sunken garden (my family referred to it as "the pit") and having staff page my parents in Miracle Mart whenever I was "lost". Spent many hours browsing books in the Coles on the right.
I hit Devonshire once a year and further expansions/renovations/shifting of stores make it feel alien to me.
It reminds me of the mall in the original "Dawn of the Dead".
leisure world ruled....and the does anyone remember the creepy statue in front of Simpson's. Very Dawn of the dead, for all of you horror fans.