I recently brought back out the few Newmarket North/Newmarket Fair microfilm scans I could get back in January of 2006 for a paper I’m working on. I forgot I had a somewhat complete list (albeit in pieces so I can’t just you know scan it) of the original tenants on opening day (March 26, 1975). Here is the best copy I have of the directory.
(the number corresponding with the store is what space they were in in the mall)
Women’s Wear
Casual Corner -75
Foxmoor Casuals – 18
Frederick’s of Hollywood -89
Hanna’s – 96 (I believe that Hanna’s moved from Newmarket South Shopping Center along with Miller & Rhoads)
Joseph R. Harris -62
Kanter’s – 31
Lerner Shops – 44
Susie’s Casuals -5
Shoes
Butler Shoes – 8
Hofheimers – 94
Kinney Shoes – 6
Thom McAn -19 (this place was here until about 1995)
Men’s Wear
Country Legend – 92
Stiches – 47 (I had an unused notebook that was a Stiches giveaway from the 80’s that I found at the old Salvation Army on Mercury Blvd a few years ago, but its in storage now)
Jewerly
Barclay & Sons – 66 (this was still open in the mid 90’s)
D. P. Paul – 95
Gordon’s – 36
Treasure Chest – 11
Weisfield’s – 42
Gifts
O’Neill’s Card Shop – 29
Food
Baskin Robbin’s 31 Flavors Ice Cream – 34 (Lasted until about 1995)
Chick-fil-a – 33 (I think this place lasted until the late 1990’s)
Fanny Farmer – 51
General Nutrition Center – 102 (I remember going in here with my mom in 1994)
Hickory Farms-46 (closed in about 1994-ish)
Orange Julius – 73
Morrison’s Cafeteria – 54 (this place is still open but changed hands to Piccaddily in the late 1990’s)
Morrow’s Nut House – 37
Sal’s Italian Restaurant – 81 (I think my folks and I ate here when I was about 5 years old in 1989 if in fact this place was still open in 1989)
Household & Dry Goods
Singer – 45
So-Fro Fabrics – 99
Seasonal & Miscellaneous
B. Dalton Bookseller – 64
Lowrey Organ Center – 28
Nautilus – 23
Parklane Hosiery – 10 (we used to buy my pantyhose for my dance outfits here when I was 5, 6 years old in 1989, 1990)
Pearle Optical – 13
Things Remembered – 69
Tinder Box – 71
Toy City – 65
WaldenBooks – 16 (left in about 1995, 1996 sometime around then)
Wide World of Music – 17
Theaters
Newmarket North 4 Theaters – 39 (this place had to leave after 1992, ’cause in late 1992 I saw Home Alone 2 Lost In New York at this theatere)
And of course the original and only anchors the mall ever had Sears, Leggett, and Miller & Rhoads, which in 2007 are Sears, Northrop Grumman, and Verizon, and of course the mall is now Netcenter. A lot of the stores are now Amsec (my dad works for Amsec, but I don’t think he ever has to go to the Netcenter location) I keep on forgetting to mention that if you drive by the old M&R building you can still see Miller & Rhoads’s labelscar, I’ve just never been able to get a photo because Verizon employees are always standing outside.