Holladay's COTTONWOOD MALL:

[drsevrin]

Originally Posted by maxhatter

Like others who have posted here, when I was a growing up, if you mentioned "the mall," you meant Cottonwood. When I was 12 ('76), my friends and I would ride our bikes from the Canyon Rim Park area to the mall on Saturdays, hang out for a couple of hours, and then take the trek back. The shop that was the coolest for us back then was the arcade on the 2nd floor. The only "true" video game (by today's standards) was Pong, and other than that there was foosball, air-hockey, skeeball, pinball, a little bb shooting gallery (like a mini pinball machine - with an enclosed gun that fired at metal figures in a western town) that cost a dime, and a bombing game - which at first glance would look like a video-game, but the screen was actually a window into the cabinet which looked down on a rotating "landscape" with a light inside that lit up as your "bombs" dropped. We would often spend all of our time right there - typical young "delinquents".
Whenever someone mentions the mall, I still think of Cottonwood.

Wow, great memory. I used to play that bombing game like there was no tomorrow. I had completely forgotten the details of the upstairs arcade. Do you remember roughly what end of the mall it was in? I seem to remember near the middle. If memory serves the arcade was then located in an entrance hall roughly where Deseret book was last located - which was removed during one of the earlier renovations. Of course Tilt carried on by the food court until near the end.

My earliest memories are going to the old Hammonds hobby store when it was down in the basement - with the electric racetrack and all the train stuff. It breaks my heart how all this has ended . . . in a pile of dirt. Thanks a lot GGP.