Miracle City Mall opened in 1968, built on 32 acres and covering 275,000 square feet of floor space.
JCPenney and Belk Lindsey (later Belk’s) anchored the mall, with the spaces between them occupied by the likes of Thom McAn (a shoe store), McCrory (a department store), Vogue and Lerner women’s fashions, a Hallmark card shop, Zales Jewelry and a Walgreens with a snack bar. Within a few years, the mall added an outlying building just north of it, containing a twin movie theater and a grocery store.
Bob Socks, a former city councilman, and an original tenant operated an Orange Julius stand in the mall for three years before taking a job as manager of the Walgreens at the other end of the mall. Alden Curfman, newly relocated with his family from North Dakota, was running a Karmelkorn shop in the mall. In 1971, he began leasing the Orange Julius kiosk from Socks and eventually bought the franchise.
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Exploring an Abandoned Mall - Miracle City Mall - The Proper People